"Translators have approached me in the past about translating my work into English, but it didn’t come to anything because I wasn’t comfortable with some of their editorial suggestions, such as amplifying a particular aspect of the text or emphasizing an element to which I hadn’t given prominence."
Release Party for Winter 2020 ArabLit Quarterly: Dreams
“One of the trickiest, most mysterious secrets of the Arabic language is the root h-l-m.”
Friday Finds: ‘Through Sightless Eyes’ by Tareq Imam
"You often spoke to me of a blind writer, who was fascinated by mazes and who smiled at even the most dreadful nightmares, while you walked, leaning on my arm—as if I would believe your talk about things that were receding before your eyes day by day."
The Trouble with Tareq Imam
Last week, there was quite a flap in the Egyptian literary world as the country's State Incentive Award went to Tareq Imam's The Serenity of Killers (Dar Merit)---but then was snatched back on the pretext that Imam had already won a (Sawiris, second-place) award for the book.
