Maya Abu al-Hayyat

Don’t Miss: ‘Translating Palestine’

Writers, translators and editors celebrate new writing from Palestine.Continue Reading

Radical Books Collective: Translating Palestine

Writers, translators and editors celebrate new writing from Palestine. Featuring Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, Marcia Lynx Qualey, Alice Youssef, Sonia Nimr, Sawad Hussain, Jehan Bseiso, Louis Allday, Suchitra Vijayan, Meg Arenberg and Bhakti Shringarpure. Books in focus include You Can Be The Last Leaf by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat translated by Fady Joudah, Thunderbird II by SoniaContinue Reading

Poetry Book Celebration! “You Can Be the Last Leaf” by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat

Maya Abu Al-Hayyat directs the Palestine Writing Workshop on the West Bank. She’ll read poems & be in conversation with poet Deema Shehabi.Continue Reading

Maya Abu Al-Hayyat & Zeina Hashem Beck | Live Reading + Book Release

AANM presents a live bilingual poetry reading featuring an incredible lineup of poets: Maya Abu Al-Hayyat and Zeina Hashem Beck. Join us as the poets read excerpts from their new works, exploring themes of language and notions of home. Maya’s translated poems will be orated by Writing Fellows graduate SamerContinue Reading

Listen: Maya Abu al-Hayyat’s ‘The Gap’

In celebration of Women in Translation Month (#WiTMonth), Comma Press has shared author Maya Abu al-Hayyat reading her short story “The Gap” in the original Arabic as well as in Yasmine Seale’s English translation.Continue Reading

Lit & Found: A Poem by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat

“Maya’s poems are made of such dailiness, the extreme violence of a colonizing force punctuating days filled with humor and compassion and small failures and sweeping loves.”Continue Reading

Friday Finds: ‘A Contemporary Novel’ by Maya Abu al-Hayat & Five More

“The female protagonist visits him in the mornings, / taps shyly on the window, sweeps the street with a glance. / (Did anyone see her?).”Continue Reading

Two Laughter Poems & a Cover Reveal from Maya Abu al-Hayyat’s ‘You Can Be the Last Leaf’

“You will hear and taste her laughter and also yours. Because laughter is ‘the excess knowledge no one takes seriously,’ the cherished identity smuggled out of psychology and surveilled consciousness.”Continue Reading

8 Books for Young Readers: Arab Women’s KidLit in Translation

For Women in Translation Month (#WITMonth), eight books for younger readers, written by women and translated to English, for readers in utero and up.Continue Reading