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Friday Finds: Translation of Climate-change Comic ‘8 Minutes’
Last week, The Offing published a short comic-story by Mohamed Saleh, translated by Elisabeth Jaquette, and an interview with the two of them: The piece, which won ……Read More
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Pooling Resources: The Literary Translators’ Collective Cedilla & Co
At this year’s American Literary Translators Association conference, Polish-English translator and culture worker Sean Bye spoke about an exciting new organization for and by translators: ……Read More
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‘Limbo Beirut’: A Don’t-miss Illustrated Novel of Contemporary Limbos, Beiruts
It was months ago now that novelist Hilal Chouman, translator Anna Ziajka Stanton, and ArabLit editor M. Lynx Qualey had a three-city Skype conversation about ……Read More
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Al-Mutanabbi Street 2017: As Long As We Need To Remember
Next March marks the tenth anniversary of the bombing of Baghdad’s al-Mutanabbi Street, the city’s historic bookselling corridor. The “Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here” movement has started ……Read More
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Women, Gulf Citizens Make Up Majority of Emerging Writers Chosen for IPAF’s 8th Nadwa
This week, a group of six emerging writers joined two award-winning novelists — Hammour Ziada and Mohammed Hasan Alwan — for the International Prize for ……Read More
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Megan Berkobien on Establishing the ‘Emerging Translators Collective’
At this year’s American Literary Translators Association conference, Megan Berkobien talked at a panel that went beyond #namethetranslators about the Emerging Translators Collective she helped found at ……Read More