afikra Conversations: Youssef Rakha
2022-03-07
Join this interview with novelist, essayist, poet & journalist Youssef Rakha as part of the afikra Conversations series.Continue Reading
Lit & Found: ‘And Yet My Heart’
2021-07-09
Who swims the ocean is become as brine. Who climbs the mountain is transformed to air.”Continue Reading
Friday Finds: Dreams of Iman Mersal and Sargon Boulus
2021-02-19
Two new dream poems have recently appeared in translation, online.Continue Reading
Arabic Translation Challenge: ‘An Angel Appears’
2020-06-09
“The beginning, we choose. / But the end chooses us. / And there is no road but the road.”Continue Reading
Friday Finds: 13 Poems by Youssef Rakha
2019-07-26
“& I didn’t taste her lips / & company didn’t show until the final day I filled the space that’s for your body / consciously or lost”Continue Reading
Friday Finds: Talks with Ahmed Saadawi, Elias Khoury, & Youssef Rakha
2018-11-16
“What I mean by this is only in English could I fully inhabit and write from the perspective of a woman. I have no idea why, but I’m sure it’s nothing to do with the nature of English itself as a language.”Continue Reading
Teaching with Arabic Literature in Translation: The Creative Writing Workshop
2018-01-22
“If in the classroom you’re able to compare multiple translations of a single work, and/or read essays by translators on their craft, this offers rich and rigorous examples of how choices are made on the level of word, phrase, syntax, diction, metaphor, image, so on. Such examples of precision and multiplicity are ideal for student writers.”Continue Reading
‘A Hundred Steps from the Revolution’ and the State of Arabic Nonfiction
2011-04-28
Non-fiction is also something writers of [Arabic] fiction and poetry seem to think they can do with their eyes shut.Continue Reading
Arabic Poetry Friday: Beirut39er Nazem Elsayed, Coptic Egyptian Poets, Translating Abboud al Jabiri, More
2011-01-07
Over on The Arabophile, poet/novelist/critic Youssef Rakha makes his way through and around two books by the young Lebanese poet Nazem Elsayed, one of the poetic standouts of the Beirut39 group. Continue Reading
