Upcoming Events: ‘Mapping My Return,’ Mona Kareem on Literature by Outsiders, Najwan Darwish & More
A few events coming up this month.
Mona Kareem
Mona Kareem Wins 2021 NEA Award to Translate Ra’ad Abdulqadir
Poet and translator Mona Kareem has won a $12,500 NEA award to support her translation of poetry by Iraqi poet Ra’ad Abdulqadir.
Friday Finds: The Dialects of Oil & Rain
At the end of last month, three writers — Mona Kareem, Deepak Unnikrishnan, and Krupa Ge — talked about translation, transience, the Gulf, belonging, and more.
Friday Finds: A New WWB Series, ‘Close-Up: An Experiment in Reviewing Translation’
“You cannot have people who regularly review American literature dictate the worth of a new work in translation. They do not have the range to deal with such works, simply because their reviews are often based on their local literary economies.”