Cover Reveal: Iman Mersal’s ‘Traces of Enayat’
2023-04-18
And Other Stories has released the cover of Iman Mersal’s groundbreaking Traces of Enayat, set for release in Robin Moger’s translation this August 3. Continue Reading
Joint Winners for This Year’s Banipal Translation Prize: Humphrey Davies and Robin Moger
2023-01-12
Judges today announced joint winners of the 2022 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation: the late Humphrey Davies, for his translation of Hamdi Abu Golayyel’s The Men Who Swallowed the Sun and Robin Moger, for his translation of Mohamed Kheir’s Slipping.Continue Reading
Translation’s Agitated Mirror
2022-03-16
“Perhaps each iteration of the poem is a supplicant, yearning for a connection with Ibn Arabi’s original. Or perhaps each one is a lover, longing to see itself in another. Perhaps they are both.”Continue Reading
Agitated Air – Poems After Ibn Arabi
2022-02-16
Join Yasmine Seale, Robin Moger, and Marina Warner for a reading and conversation of “Agitated Air – Poems After Ibn Arabi.”Continue Reading
A Valentine’s Poem: Mouna Ouafik’s ‘I Decorate Her Navel with Ezra Pound’s Penis’
2022-02-14
“I will push your thighs together. You will open them like a pair of translated poems.”Continue Reading
Friday Finds: An Excerpt of Mohamed Kheir’s ‘Slipping’
2021-06-25
“Where the corniche wall ran out, a great tree hooped over to drink from the river. Beyond the tree there was nothing: nothing between us and the water. “Continue Reading
The Two Egyptian Novels Available in Translation This Month
2021-06-09
Two very different Egyptian novels appear in translation this month: They are Sonallah Ibrahim’s “provocative masterpiece” Warda, translated by Hosam aboul-Ela and Mohamed Kheir’s “musical and parabolic” Slipping, translated by Robin Moger.Continue Reading
Upcoming Events: ‘A Decade of Shubbak,’ Mohamed Kheir & More
2021-06-05
A few upcoming events, taking place online.Continue Reading
Upcoming Events: Wordplay in Arabic Translation, ‘How to End Things in Arabic Literature’ & More
2021-05-29
A few upcoming events, taking place online.Continue Reading
