Don’t Miss: ‘Translating Palestine’
2022-10-18
Writers, translators and editors celebrate new writing from Palestine.Continue Reading
Radical Books Collective: Translating Palestine
2022-10-04
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
#WorldKidLitMonth Giveaway: ‘Thunderbird’ Book One, by Sonia Nimr
2022-09-07
To celebrate World Kid Lit Month, we are giving away copies of the first book in Palestinian novelist Sonia Nimr’s award-winning Thunderbird trilogy, now available in translation from University of Texas Press. Continue Reading
Sonia Nimr’s “Thunderbird”: Book Launch & Teacher Workshop
2022-05-16
Join this online launch event of Sonia Nimr’s “Thunderbird”, a YA fantasy adventure featuring a young Palestinian girl who must save the world.Continue Reading
Launching the FOLK Issue: The Ordinary and Extraordinary That ‘Refuse to Be Erased’
2021-12-15
“This issue, our last of the year, is a celebration of stories and poetry that are oral, anti-professional, transgressive, strange, and fantastical. In it, the ordinary and extraordinary people at the margins, as Alaa Murad writes, ‘refuse to be erased.'”Continue Reading
Palestine Book Awards Announce 7-book Shortlist
2021-06-16
Earlier this week, organizers announced the seven-book shortlist for this year’s Palestine Book Awards.Continue Reading
Pre-launch Giveaway: Sonia Nimr’s ‘Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands’
2020-11-14
Apologies, these will be mailed out from Interlink and can go to USA addresses only. However, it need not be your address; feel free to enter and gift the book to someone in the US.Continue Reading
Friday Finds: YA in Translation by Taghreed Najjar, Djamila Morani, and Sonia Nimr
2020-04-17
Words Without Borders has posted a new special issue this kid-lit-heavy month, “Time-Travelers, Fisherwomen, and Sleuths: Arabic Young Adult Literature,” curated by translator Elisabeth Jaquette.Continue Reading
Translate This! 21 Women You Want to Read in English
2018-08-11
For Women in Translation Month (#WITMonth), we have assembled 21 women from 12 countries who have no book-length work in English, where, if they did, it would improve your day.Continue Reading
