/Nūn/ by Najlaa Eltom is forthcoming this fall in my translation Thank you @hararereview.com 🌹
Harare Review of Books@hararereview.com · 8mo agoBooks from African authors and authors of African descent to look forward to in 2026
Mayada Ibrahim
@mayadamayadamay.bsky.social
Arabic literary translator & managing editor at 52 Walker
Harare Review of Books@hararereview.com · 8mo ago
"I try to resist the notion that educating the reader is my responsibility, as it’s harmful to treat readers as passive, disengaged consumers hungry for entertainment dressed up as instruction." Check out this interview with past ALTA Travel Fellow @mayadamayadamay.bsky.social:
Baptism by Fire: An Interview with Mayada Ibrahim on Arabophone Africa in Translation - Asymptote Blog
I’m interested in Black subjectivity, in works that challenge and problematise the hegemony of Arabic. . .
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Very little of what I read speaks so directly to what the last few years have felt like. This prose poem we pulled out of the archive does that, and it reminds me of Gary Indiana writing "Every death in my life has been delivered by telephone, no eyes to look into.” Thank you to Judah Rubin!
Najlaa Eltom — A Perfect Vacuum
The Name of the Body
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Under the shelter of my heart he is as plain and severe as his task ⊱ From Issue 10, three poems by Najlaa Eltom, translated from Arabic by Mayada Ibrahim (@mayadamayadamay.bsky.social) ⊱ circumferencemag.com/he-is-as-pla...
he is as plain and severe as his task
From Issue 10, three poems by Najlaa Eltom, translated from Arabic by Mayada Ibrahim
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New @commonmag.bsky.social issue just dropped. It features: photography and translated prose from Amman, Jordan; short stories from Hawai‘i, Kenya, Baton Rouge, and an Austin boxing gym; an essay on ritual and clothmaking in Cameroon; and more. www.thecommononline.org/issues/issue...
The Common Issue 28
A portfolio highlighting photography and translated prose from Amman, Jordan; short stories from Hawai‘i, Kenya, Baton Rouge, and an Austin boxing gym; an essay on ritual and clothmaking in Cameroon; ...
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On 16 May at Molasses Books (NY), I'm co-organising an event with beloved, where I'll be reading with poet-translator Miled Faiza, as well as Laura al-Tibi and Amr Amer, the duo behind "Against the Structural Weight of Catastrophe: A Poetics of Negation" Join us at 8 pm / free
Join trace press, and the editors and translators featured in this timely and moving bilingual anthology featuring poems from Palestine, Lebanon, Sudan, Syria, Iraq and Tunisia. They will read from both Arabic and English. Free. Online. www.eventbrite.ca/e/trace-arab...
trace: ARABIC, BETWEEN LOVE AND WAR | Poems, Translations, Conversations
Join us for vibrant bilingual readings of poems from Palestine, Lebanon, Sudan, Syria, Iraq and Tunisia.
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Salvage 30: art by Judith Braun, translation of the historical moment @mayadamayadamay.bsky.social, the poetry of family from Maggie Greaves - @matthewklane.bsky.social remembering Pierre Joris & his massive presence locally
Huge congrats to Norah Nagi & @mayadamayadamay.bsky.social whose story & translation 'Unicorn 2512' from Egypt + 100 (Ed. @ahmednaji.bsky.social) has been shortlisted for the @bsfa.bsky.social awards for best translated short fiction! 📙Order Egypt + 100 here commapress.co.uk/books/egypt-...
We’re thrilled to announce a new title from n+1 Books: The Last Soviet Artist, a new work of graphic reportage by artist and journalist Victoria Lomasko, translated from the Russian by Bela Shayevich. Out April 22!
The Last Soviet Artist, by Victoria Lomasko
“Victoria Lomasko’s gritty, street-level view of the great Russian people masterfully intertwines quiet desperation with open defiance.” —Joe Sacco
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I'm reading some new translations at Ridgewood this Saturday
Yuliana Ortiz Ruano’s debut into English; Andrés Paniagua’s newest; Gazan poetry in Spanish and a collection of texts by Afro-Peruvian composer Victoria Santa Cruz published by Chilean press Otra Sinceridad
Still overjoyed by this! <3
The Booker Prizes@thebookerprizes.com · 2y agoOn a Woman's Madness, written by Astrid Roemer and translated by Lucy Scott, is a queer literature classic that tells the story of a courageous Black woman trying to live a life of her choosing. Find out about the #InternationalBooker2025-longlisted book: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
We are happy to launch Workshops4sudan to raise funds for mutual aid groups in Sudan. Our debut series features the writer and abolitionist @williamcson.bsky.social and the organizer, artist and social justice educator @raniawrites.bsky.social. To sign up go to: sudansolidarity.com/workshops4su...
Workshops4Sudan – Sudan Solidarity Collective
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Suggestions for contemporary Arabic texts that mix prose and poetry?
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Tilted Axis Press@tiltedaxispress.bsky.social · 2y ago“Tilted Axis has carved out a unique literary niche, and has caught the attention of critics and prize juries, landing major awards and winning acclaim for writers who were unknown in the Anglophone world.” Thank you Alexandra Alter & @nytimes.com for spotlighting our work! bit.ly/3X6h1fh
Looking for an Urdu>English interpreter in New York for a paid gig with FourOneOne www.fouroneoneprojects.org. Someone familiar with musical/mystical concepts would be a plus!
“This book has never been more necessary, offering a framework for trans reclamation and negation of the nonprofit industrial complex.” www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/01...
Revathi And The Dismantling Of Neoliberal Respectability - Asymptote Blog
This book has never been more necessary, offering a framework for trans reclamation and negation of the nonprofit industrial complex.
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Very excited to be publishing Yñiga by Glenn Diaz in 2026!
Asian Review of Books@asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 2y agoDrops today: this week's ARB @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast features Nicholas Gordon in conversation with Glenn Diaz, author of the prize-winning “Yñiga” Ateneo de Manila Press, Titled Axis Press asianreviewofbooks.com/content/ynig...
The Alliance of Gezira and Managil Farmers has launched a We Must Plant Campaign in central Sudan to purchase seeds and inputs for 1500 families to plant inside their home compounds. You can support them here: sudansolidarity.com
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