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Addie Leak

@addieleak.bsky.social

Translator (AR/FR>EN), lover of languages/lit/travel. 🐈 mom, future Jordanian citizen, avid hiker/backpacker. Website: https://addieleak.com/

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Julie S. Lalonde@julieslalonde.bsky.social · 2w ago

Gloria Steinem. My God, what a loss. 💔 A full life dedicated to women's rights. Her fingerprints across so many victories. She is needed now more than ever and we must do everything we can to continue her legacy. I could never read the dedication of her memoir without weeping. I mean, oooof 😭

This book is dedicated to Dr John Sharpe of London who in 1957, a decade before physicians in England could legally perform an abortion for any reason other than the health of the woman, took the considerable risk of referring for an abortion, a 22-year-old American on her way to India. knowing only that she had broken an engagement at home to seek an unknown fate, he said "you must promise me two things. first, you will not tell anyone my name. Second, you will do what you want to do with your life." Dear Dr Sharpe, I believe you, who knew the law was unjust, would not mind if I say this so long after your death I've done the best I could with my life. This book is for you. 
Addie Leak@addieleak.bsky.social · 2w ago

I can't even begin to describe what a privilege it was to judge the pile of books we received 😍

American Literary Translators Association@littranslate.bsky.social · 2w ago

We are grateful for the work of our judges, without whom these lists would not be possible! This year’s prose judges are @addieleak.bsky.social, Eva Apelqvist, Hanna Leliv @kalyanasc.bluesky.social & Priscilla Layne. This year’s poetry judges are @kkovacik.bsky.social, Karen Leeder & Robyn Creswell.

Felicity Callard@felicitycallard.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Beautiful essay by Isabella Hammad on Gaza, grief, mourning, rubble, monuments. And on Arabic poetry and its recasting of some of the foundational readings/uses of Freud and Klein

Equator@equatormag.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“Witnessing, or looking and weeping, did not stop the atrocities.” In a brilliant essay for our first print issue, Isabella Hammad traces the motif of “weeping over ruins” in Arabic poetry – and the impossibility of mourning in Gaza, where destruction does not end www.equator.org/articles/sta...

The American University in Cairo Press@aucpress.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Have you ever wished you could ask a novelist what lies behind the story before you begin reading? Read this Q&A on "Mariam, It’s Arwa: A Novel" by Areej Gamal, translated by @addieleak.bsky.social (Hoopoe, 2026): bit.ly/4cWyspL #hoopoe #aucpress #literature #translation #middleeast

"Storytelling often emerges from memory"

Read a Q&A with the author to explore the creative process behind the novel, and take a closer look at the ideas, decisions, and moments that shaped it.

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The American University in Cairo Press@aucpress.bsky.social · 5mo ago

What happens behind the scenes of a novel that feels almost like a dream? In this interview, by @arablit.bsky.social, @addieleak.bsky.social reflects on translating "Mariam, It’s Arwa: A Novel" by Areej Gamal (Hoopoe, 2026). arablit.org/2026/04/23/o... #hoopoe #aucpress #translation #novels

On Translation, Love, and Israeli Prison

Addie Leak talks with Tugrul Mende about the translation process, literary awards, and two very different translations processes: translating one book through a riot of multilingual voicenotes and …

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ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly@arablit.bsky.social · 5mo ago

On Translation, Love, and Israeli Prison Addie Leak talks with Tugrul Mende about the translation process, literary awards, and two very different translations processes: translating one book through a riot of multilingual voicenotes and another by an author who was inaccessible, in an Israeli…

On Translation, Love, and Israeli Prison

Addie Leak talks with Tugrul Mende about the translation process, literary awards, and two very different translations processes: translating one book through a riot of multilingual voicenotes and another by an author who was inaccessible, in an Israeli prison.

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