Very pleased to be writing a monthly column for Zeteo. It’s called the Global South, I hope you’ll subscribe. You can read the first column here: zeteo.com/p/gaza-has-exp…

رائع جدًا! شكرًا أبجد 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Why 29 writers and translators (1 in 3 of the total nominees), myself included, have withdrawn from participation in this year's PEN America Awards. Thanks to Dan Sheehan for his thoughtful, thorough work in Literary Hub. (1/

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You can watch the full episode here: youtu.be/RPmkhyYksc8?si…

The final book in brilliant Palestinian novelist Sonia Nimr's THUNDERBIRD trilogy. For all your favorite readers 8+.

Translators, one of our own, Khalid from Gaza, who joined us virtually at the action lab at the ALTA conference, is trying to evacuate his family after their home was bombed. I know there are so many fundraisers, but your support would mean a lot.
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يا ليت Abjjad | أبجد

Today marks one year since conflict engulfed Sudan, leaving millions suffering amidst relentless fighting. The blockage of aid by the Sudanese authorities to some areas has resulted in restricted humanitarian access, exacerbating the crisis for people in dire need of healthcare.

Hooray for THE BOOK CENSOR'S LIBRARY! 📖📖📖

Just a reminder, don’t let the western- Israeli propaganda disturb you from following what is happening in Gaza we are still under bombing non stop for 190 days!!

Samar Yazbek's Where the Wind Calls Home (tr. Leri Price) offers a poignant look into Syria’s civil war through the eyes of a dying soldier.

Join the author and translator in discussing its poetic origins, symbolism, and the translation process: tinyurl.com/2snwam4y

'أشعر بالأمان معها. هي صوتي الانجليزي.'

الروائية السورية سمر يزبك عن المترجمة ليري برايس، في حوار مثري بينهما حول العملية الإبداعية في الترجمة.

صباحٌ شعريّ هادئ برفقة الشاعرة الكورية كيم هايسون، نقرأ فيها قصيدة من ديوانها الأخير الذي يضم قصائد تصفها هايسون خربشات طائرٍ هزيل مكتوبة بأثقل قلم رصاص في العالم. ✏️🐦‍⬛

Thank you Sawad Hussain! Enjoy reading it. Indeed, the claws come out in this installment of the Aya series published by Drawn & Quarterly. Buy your copies and put some coins in my pocket; I have a library to run 1949 🤣

Sawad Hussain Edwige-Renée DRO WordsWithoutBorders British Centre for Literary Translation A F R E A D A // stories from home 😉 theafricareport.com/339550/ivorian…

SOOOOOO excited to support Edwige-Renée DRO 's translation of AYA!! If you haven't gotten your copy yet, do so now, now, NOW. #xl8 WordsWithoutBorders British Centre for Literary Translation A F R E A D A // stories from home

'We'll be back to rebuild it.'

- Gaza, 2024.

My translation of INDETERMINATE INFLORESCENCE by Lee Seong-bok, Seon Buddhism-inspired aphorisms on writing poetry, is coming to the UK courtesy of Penguin Books UK in Nov 💜 Huge thanks to Joshua Rothes Sublunary Editions for making this happen 💜 penguin.co.uk/books/463848/i…

🧵I declined the PEN/Ralph Manheim Award for Translation, in solidarity with the 1300+ writers who've decried PEN America silence on the genocidal murder of Palestinians, & with the PEN America United fight to maintain free speech for PEN employees,

Lovely to see our work in Literary Hub !! (Ranya Abdelrahman) ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly بثينة العيسى 🙏🏽🎉
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