It’s publication day for the US edition of Samar Yazbek’s Your Presence Is a Danger to Your Life, translated to English by Leri Price. To mark the day, we have a link to an excerpt from the book, a conversation about the book between Samar and Olivia Snaije, a review by editor Ibtihal Rida Mahmood, and a conversation about the translation process between contributor Tugrul Mende and translator Leri Price.
Here, Leri Price talks about the referred trauma (and guilt) of translating testimonies from a genocide, how she worked with translators bringing the book into other languages, and the particular challenges of translating this book.
This month: two graphic novels, a powerful testimonial by Samar Yazbek, and a novel set in Tangier.
On a review that nearly didn’t happen.
“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.”
This essay, by the extraordinary Syrian writer Samar Yazbek, appears in our latest issue, SYRIA: Fall of Eternity, ed. Ghada Alatrash and Fadi Azzam.
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