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Some of the families brought baklava and falafel and on the Saturday one mum brought cat-shaped biscuits and a local cafe supplied a tray of rose and pistachio donuts – amazing! Kaadan read and workshopped both from her English-language book, The Jasmine Sneeze, as well as from one of her Arabic books,
Continue reading A Successful First ‘Stories and Songs for Syrians,’ and a Book to Translate
However, this is not only for the independently wealthy translator, as financial aid is available, and organizers report there are at least two fully paid slots. It includes translation workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as lectures, craft classes, meetings with editors and agents, and readings by faculty and
Continue reading Sunday Submissions: Apply for 3rd Annual Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference
While visiting Al Mutannabbi Street, looking for books to buy, he meets Wadoud, who owns a bookshop on Baghdad’s famous bookselling street. When a student asks him to abandon his lesson and teach him how to say “on your knees, put up your hands, go back” in Arabic, so he can use it when he
Continue reading Sinan Antoon’s IPAF-longlisted ‘Index’ and the Emotional Lives of Objects
Ahmed Taha is an Egyptian poet who has published four collections of poetry. Despite this, he remains little known outside the Arab world. This year, from Ahmad Taha’s Empire of Walls: The wall of lost chances By Ahmed Taha, translated from the Arabic by Thoraya El-Rayyes Without a care you push your black
Continue reading The Annual Anti-Valentine’s Day Poem: ‘The Wall of Lost Chances’
I imagine that’s a struggle that would be much different if you were gazing down on the forest from atop a mountain rather than wandering within it. The Poleax also recently published a discussion between Iraq + 100 contributor Diyaa al-Jubeili and translator Andrew Leber, who brought al-Jubeili’s “The Worker” into English.
Paulo has strong links to the vibrant and pro-revolutionary cultural scene in Cairo as well as to the Egyptian security apparatus before and during the time of the revolution. Asmaa Abdallah reviews another of the titles on the 2017 International Prize for Arabic Fiction longlist: Youssef Rakha’s Paulo: By Asmaa Abdallah Youssef Rakha’s novel
Continue reading IPAF-longlisted ‘Paulo’: Exhausting and Unsettling, Like the Egyptian Revolution
They range from the historical to the very contemporary: A Small Death harks back the farthest, following 12th-century Sufi thinker Ibn Arabi; In The Spider’s Chamber is focused on the Queen Boat arrests of gay men in Egypt in 2001; Al-Sabiliat takes place during the Iran-Iraq war of
Salil Tripathi, Chair of PEN International’s Writers in Prison Committee, said in a prepared statement: It is appalling that Abbad Yahya cannot return home because he fears he may be arrested over a novel he has written. The latter, Fuad al-Akleek, was detained and released. Advertisements Share this:TwitterFacebookEmailPrintLinkedInRedditGoogleTumblrPinterestPocketLike this:Like Loading…‹ Prominent Authors, Including Elias
You can also read an interview with IPAF organizers and an excerpt of his IPAF-shortlisted The Beaver, translated by attendees of the 2011 BCLT summer school along with the author (and, according to attendee Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp, occasionally the author’s wife). My aunt had gone for an appointment she had made with another
The subtlety of the portrayal caught me off guard and threatened to shake my long-standing lack of affection for poets, many of whom happen to be obsessed with embellishments and would go about verses with such condescending authority fit only for Greek gods. “In my music, I speak Latvian,” Vasks said in one of the
Continue reading Sudden Mesopotamian Downpours: Translating the Poetry of Maitham Radhi