The Archaeology of Writing: A Conversation between Mauritanian Writer Ahmed Fal Al Din and Ibrahim Fawzy | إبراهيم فوزي olongoafrica.com/the-archeology…

Read her work in the GRIEF issue tomorrow.

The Archaeology of Writing: A Conversation with the Mauritanian Writer Ahmed Vall Dine via OlongoAfrica.com olongoafrica.com/the-archeology…

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Please help us with the absences in this list. Grateful to Hany Ragy and Marilyn Booth for the additions. More today at ArabLit.

Thank you very much, dear Ibrahim, for the invitation. I truly enjoyed our conversation. Keep up your amazing work!

New edition of Samira Azzam's OUT OF TIME, tr. Ranya Abdelrahman, coming June 3 2025.

FRIDAY May 16- 8 pm Molasses Books (Brooklyn) Join Mayada Ibrahim & Miled Faiza reading poems / translations from #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar (t r a c e) with Laura al-Tibi & Amr Amer.

"These Writings, visceral and immediate, testify to the enduring human need to bear witness and speak truth to power." I reviewed Imprisoning a Revolution (curated by Collective Antigone and published by University of California Press (is on Bluesky)) for WorldLiteratureToday worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/may/impri…

Did you know the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation was established nearly twenty years ago? Ibrahim Fawzy guides us through the most recent shortlist and explores how these six works converge around the act of bearing witness: tinyurl.com/2uu4r2s7

Engaging & thought-provoking talk today at UChicago Franke Inst by Sawad Hussain on the power(lessness) of the translator & her experience as a #translator of Arabic literature. Thank you, Sawad, for sharing your insights & for taking the time to attend our Arabic Nadwa! #translation

A must-read. arablit.org/2025/05/23/we-…

From American Literary Translators Association on 🦋: Starting soon! Write the World: A Day of Translation, 9:00am PT, "From Writers to Readers: The Impact of Translation Awards" feat. E. Cox, S. Rucchi, M. Cooperson, M. Solovej, & sponsored by the Sheikh Zayed Book Award! Register: literarytranslators.org/event/write-th…

From ALTA on 🦋: The final event of Write the World: A Day of Translation is starting soon! Don't miss "New Directions in African Literary Translation" starting at 1:00pm PT, featuring Ibrahim Fawzy | إبراهيم فوزي, Betty Attfield, Prudencio Aguilar., and Tsitsi Ella Jaji. #WriteTheWorld #xl8

Tsitsi Jaji: "Translation, to pluck words from another's tongue..." #WriteTheWorld #translation

This will be entirely online. Apply to one of the two free spots before June 8.

New episode is out now on New Books Network (@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social)! Diving into the sea of Mohamed Choukri with Jonas Elbousty! We talk translation, memory, and stories that refuse to be silenced. Tune in wherever you get your podcasts. open.spotify.com/episode/2d4rHw…

Grateful to Ursula Lindsay for her fascinating piece on Mohamed Choukri in ⁦The New York Review of Books⁩, where she reviews both Tales of Tangier and Faces. ⁦Georgetown University Press⁩ ⁦Yale University Press⁩ ⁦Mohamed Choukri's Literary Journey⁩ nybooks.com/articles/2025/…

How do translators become ambassadors of their practice—and their culture? In this profile of frequent contributor and translation superstar Anton Hur, Soumashree Sarkar considers the ways translators like Hur challenge simple narratives in their work: thewire.in/books/translat…

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