Memories of Diminishment
On a review that nearly didn’t happen.
Samar Yazbek
Samar Yazbek on Redefining Collective Memory
“Sometimes, I believe that silence itself could carry meaning in the face of this barbarity. Sometimes, I tell myself that I’ll stop documenting atrocities and only write literature. But all of this only makes sense in the context of our desire for justice, our desire to preserve the true essence of humanity.”
Samar Yazbek’s ‘The Silent Night-Dwellers of Damascus’
This essay, by the extraordinary Syrian writer Samar Yazbek, appears in our latest issue, SYRIA: Fall of Eternity, ed. Ghada Alatrash and Fadi Azzam.
National Book Award Finalists Include Fady Joudah, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Two Translations from Arabic
OCTOBER 1, 2024 — This year’s list of finalists for the 2024 National Book Awards saw works by Arab authors in four of the five categories: Libyan-British author Hisham Matar’s […]
3 of 10 from Arabic on Longlist for National Book Award for Translated Literature
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024 — Three of the works longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature are literary works translated from Arabic. This year’s 10-book longlist was announced today. […]
On Translating ‘Small, Shining Moments of Crystalline Beauty’
By Tugrul Mende Earlier this year, World Editions published Samar Yazbek’s Where The Wind Calls Home, translated by Leri Price. It centers a young soldier as he lays dying from […]
An Excerpt from Samar Yazbek’s ‘Where the Wind Calls Home’
Syrian writer and journalist Samar Yazbek’s poetic, tender Where the Wind Calls Home was published last week by World Editions, in award-winning translator Leri Price’s fluid English translation. The publisher writes […]
Samar Yazbek and Leri Price Make 2022 Warwick Longlist for ‘Planet of Clay’
Syrian novelist Samar Yazbek and translator Leri Price have made the diverse and star-studded 14-book longlist for this year’s Warwick Prize for Women in Translation.
MENAWA Reading Group: ‘Planet of Clay’ by Samar Yazbek
Join MENAWAPoco’s April 2022 virtual book discussion, of Samar Yazbek’s ‘Planet of Clay’ (tr. Leri Price) at 5pm UK time.
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