Desire of Life becoming an anthem for freedom and resistance (as intended) makes my Tunisian heart flutter

I must say, lyric books are still some of my favourite language-learning material ever. The aesthetic game is on a different plane with Taeyeon but that's my bias coming through. Also now I understand the significance of someone mistaking carnations for roses. (Maroon, anyone?)

أحب الرسائل وأرى أصدقها ما كُتب على غير لسان صاحبها. كنت أقرأ بريد الليل لهدى بركات قبل مدة على توصية من الجميلة Sawad Hussain وهي بالأصل مجموعة قصصية على شكل رسائل وإذا برسائل ليلى تظهر أمامي مجددًا.. يا حبذا الرسائل ويا حبذا كتّابها

The lotus flower analogy made it all way to Muscat 🪷

You know Women in Translation month hates to see me coming. I've been travelling a lot these past few months, so it's mostly audiobooks, but I've been intentional about the variety of languages. Some of my picks include self-translations by Jhumpa Lahiri and Elif Shafak!

Fatma Hassona's docu film about Gaza will be at QFT, Belfast on 20, 21, 24, 25 September. Fatma was kiiled along with family members by an Israeli airstrike a day after hearing it was selected for Cannes. ://queensfilmtheatre.com/Whats-On/Put-Your-Soul-on-Your-Hand-and-Walk

Take a moment, and read...

“In every thing one creates, there’s a part of reality one doesn’t show.” —Abbas Kiarostami

I had the privilege of doing a bilingual poetry reading for the Northern Ireland Mental Health Arts Festival this year! I got to share my own poem, Junipers. Also I, naturally, chose a translation of Mahmoud Darwish's On This Earth (featured on ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social): instagram.com/reel/DOjQzvgDF…

On the road again, pocket poetry comes in handy. Rilke seems to get it, though I can't possibly imagine him considering his poetry to be read on a desert road some hundred years after his death..

This is interesting only to me, but I was curious how this show would be localised in Arabic. She code switches when she interprets, he doesn't understand Korean AND the plot takes place between Korea and Japan. I guess they went with English for Japanese. The quality though..

In honor of Refaat's birthday. arablit.org/2024/06/21/the…

Congratulations and well done to everyone involved! I am so excited to celebrate World Translation Day #IDT25 and to hear more about this new and important collection. If you’re free on 30th September I would highly recommend joining us!