maia tabet and yasmeen hanoosh are both Arabic-English literary translators who have spent decades living and translating from multiple diasporic locales. In this conversation, they retrace the trajectories of their experience as translators, uprooted Arab women, and bilingual diasporic subjects to identify intersections and divergences along their paths.
The Amherst, USA-based literary magazine The Common today launches its 25th issue, which features a special section of short stories and art from Kuwait.
Later today, ArabLit hosts author Hisham Bustani, translator maia tabet, publisher Michael B. Tager, and scholar Pete Moore talk translation, its politics, and more.
Author Hisham Bustani, translator maia tabet, publisher Michael B. Tager, and scholar Pete Moore talk translation, its politics, and more.
The Markaz Review invites you to participate in their monthly bookgroup conversation, this month featuring writer Hisham Bustani and translator Maia Tabet.
“For me it’s a little bit like cooking; people say, “if you’re following a recipe then you’re not creating anything.” I don’t agree; you are creating something, you’re creative even if you’re following a recipe.”
“I treat my novels and poetry as forms of art, in which I explore all that I do not want to articulate in academic arguments and proofs.”
The Khayrallah Center yesterday announce that the 2020 Khayrallah Prize had been awarded to two artists: novelist Rula Jurdi Abisaab and filmmaker Zayn Alexander.
Near the end of the excerpt, as Nour falls asleep, she thinks about how her own father “in a matter of days, transformed into an entirely different person.”
