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الترجمة الإنكليزية لديوان "من النهر إلى البحر" التي تصدر الشهر المقبل عن "منشورات بانيبال" بترجمة الصديق Robin Moger جاهزة للطلب المسبق عبر موقع الدار banipal.co.uk/news/index.cfm… مع الشكر للصديقين مارغريت أوبانك و Samuel Shimon صموئيل شمعون والصديق رائد وحش على رسوماته الرائعة

If you enjoyed our episode with Karima (and of course you did) read a chapter of CACTUS GIRLS in English or Slovenian translation. English: themarkaz.org/tattoos-an-exc… And, if you can't wait for the full translation, order the book in Arabic: karimaahdad.com/cactus-girls

Including Batool Abu Akleen's 48 Kg; make sure you don't miss our episode with the poet. lnk.to/xlL6xJ

& help keep our partner publisher ARABLIT & ARABLIT QUARTERLY alive.

"Death breaks into the classroom he reveals secrets to the children & suddenly they grow up they wear their fathers’ faces" From Batool Abu Akleen's poetry collection, 48 Kg. We spoke to Abu Akleen about writing poetry in Gaza for Bulaq lnk.to/xlL6xJ

Join us for our workshop next Wednesday with keynote speaker Iman Mersal! Iman Mersal American University of Beirut Faculty of Arts and Sciences at AUB

The translation workshop series we talked about in our most recent episode w/poet (and translator, and workshop organizer) Batool Abu Akleen: lnk.to/xlL6xJ

What are you doing this summer? You're going to want to add this to your reading list. Sign up at the link in our bio!

Ahead of our Mohamed Choukri episode, go ahead and:

Wrote a piece for The New York Review of Books about Tangiers, nostalgia, colonialism, and the thoroughly, purposely disreputable writer Mohamed Choukri. nybooks.com/articles/2025/…

It was a great to speak with fellow former Sanaa expat Zahra Sethna at Collapse Life about #Yemen, the Book of Sana'a (Comma Press🍉 #CeasefireNow), journalism and more youtube.com/watch?v=-zpM64…

An in-depth conversation with Reem Gaafar about her novel A Mouth Full of Salt published in UK by Saqi Books and in Canada by Invisible Publishing Available on various platforms: radicalbookscollective.com/p/a-debut-nove…

Buy a back issue of ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social Quarterly to support new work in 2025-26! Find all 18 issues (including FOLK, DREAMS, CATS, THE JOKE, THE KITCHEN & more) + backlist books at arablit.org/shop #buyabackissue

If you haven't yet listened to our episode w/Batool: lnk.to/xlL6xJ & it's DOUBLE PUBLICATION DAY; both her 48KG and the pamphlet she edited for Modern Poetry in Translation are out today.

The workshops we discussed with Batool in episode 113 (which you shouldn't miss: lnk.to/xlL6xJ).

Heartbreaking, gorgeous review that addresses -- among other books -- 48Kg, which we discussed w/Batool in a recent episode.