"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:

In Sheffield, 27 August 2025 @englishpen.bsky.social www.englishpen.org/posts/events...

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!

Today! Part of Workshops 4 Sudan www.sudansolidarity.com/events/theor...

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...

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...

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...

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-...

I can't wait!

pre-ordered *immediately*

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!

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

La Santa Maria La Ribera, CDMX

Still overjoyed by this! <3

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...

Suggestions for contemporary Arabic texts that mix prose and poetry?

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A real trip and beautiful translation

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!

Sad to miss this events.nyu.edu/event/undert...

“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...

Stella Gaitano and Najlaa Eltom 🫶🏾 www.guernicamag.com/war-forgets-...

Very excited to be publishing Yñiga by Glenn Diaz in 2026!

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

Samahani is The Continent’s #1 book of 2024 🥹

First and last day of the semester at Hunter 🫶🏾

UNTITLED PARK SEOLYEON PROJECT by Park Seolyeon (Tilted Axis Press) The story of a Korean labor union activist during the Japanese occupation who fought in the resistance and then for labor rights. Based on the life of Kang Juryong.

Samahani in the Irish Times' round-up 🥲 www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Samahani makes the list! ❤️‍🔥 www.worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/lit-lis...

@ The Strand, NYC

Come share your questions and grievances about publisher contracts in an open and supportive environment! “Each one teach one” is how we all become better informed and able to advocate for fair pay <3

Thank you friends for coming out to celebrate Samahani <3

Join us to listen to poems from Palestine, Sudan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Tunisia, and to consider the work of translation, publishing, and community at this time of profound global grief and steadfast solidarity. Register here: tracepress.org/en-us/produc...

Tonight!

Najlaa Eltom, Hatim al-Kinani, Mohammed Zenia, Hikma Yagoub, Mamoun Eltlib and I will be reading the work of Sudanese poets still in Sudan, unable or unwilling to leave for various reasons. Join us <3

Today, WWB launches a new collection of indigenous Amazigh writing in North Africa and beyond, beginning with an introduction by Brahim El Guabli. Click to read El Guabli’s rigorous examination of the history—and the possible future—for Amazigh lit. https://buff.ly/4fy1s7h

See you this Saturday 8pm at Molasses Books!