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L'Hospitalet de Llobregat
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Equator
1 day ago
Golan Haji, translated by
@robinmoger.bsky.social
: “The next morning, after we saluted the flag and chanted party slogans on the basketball court, the school principal thrashed his cane to splinters over my bloodied, outstretched palms.”
www.equator.org/articles/ash...
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Equator
5 days ago
In 1960, 283 children died when a theater in northern Syria went up in flames. Kurdish poet Golan Haji recalls the disaster: “Even though it happened many years before I was born, consigned to police files marked ‘no perpetrator’, we all knew of the fire.”
www.equator.org/articles/ash...
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Ashes to Pistachios • EQUATOR
Growing up near a burned cinema, a Kurdish poet in Syria learns to read the landscape for traces of a violent history
https://www.equator.org/articles/ashes-to-pistachios
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Frank Wynne
19 days ago
An interview with the incomparable Jen Calleja
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An Interview with Jen Calleja - Asymptote
I met with Jen Calleja—author, musician and translator from German extraordinaire—at the Edinburgh International Book Festival where she was taking part in two events. In the first, she ap...
https://www.asymptotejournal.com/interview/an-interview-with-jen-calleja/
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the Mountain Goats
6 months ago
this reminds me I should also mention
@twolinespress.bsky.social
in my list of great translation houses. if you only read Two Lines publications for a year you'd emerge having expanded your view of world literature in ways you couldn't previously have guessed at
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Tobias Ryan
6 months ago
this includes translations, by the way
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ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly
8 months ago
TODAY is Pub Day for Batool Abu Akleen's 48KG, tr. various, and the poetry pamphlet she edited & translated for
@mptmagazine.bsky.social
, SEA SHELLS. Order 48Kg from Tenement Press:
tenementpress.com/Batool-Abu-A...
And read SEA SHELLS free online:
modernpoetryintranslation.com/sea-shells-a...
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*Indebted*: a set of texts by and about Dhul Rumma and a poem by Golan Haji, dedicated to Golan, in the Debt-themed Monsoon edition of the great Almost Island
www.almostisland.com/monsoon-2025...
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Bionic — almostisland
https://www.almostisland.com/monsoon-2025/poetry/indebted
8 months ago
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The Skiffy and Fanty Show
8 months ago
And our ridiculous but informative show is LIVE on Twitch for our weekly, uh, live recording! It's a Reading Rangers night, and we're talking about Mohamed Kheir's Sleep Phase (trans. Robin Moger) via @twolinespress.bsky.social. Join us!
twitch.tv/alphabetst...
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Two Lines Press
9 months ago
Submissions are open! We are looking for contemporary trans writers working in hybrid for our new Calico collection. Find out more here:
www.catranslation.org/books/submit...
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فصل من رواية نائل الجديدة...
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9 months ago
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US edition of Iman's Motherhood & It's Ghosts out this month
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9 months ago
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An extract from Mohamed's novel Sleep Phase, out next month from the great
@twolinespress.bsky.social
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10 months ago
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Al ahly thikr jamaah Cape Town
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Al Ahly Thikr for the Guests of Allah
YouTube video by Al Ahly Thikr Jamaah
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10 months ago
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Truth Is Never Finished | Fady Joudah
They came back for the map, but the map laughed them off: Who bombs hospitals to inherit the earth?
https://thebaffler.com/latest/truth-is-never-finished-joudah
11 months ago
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كأنَّ ديار الحي بالزُّرقِ خِلقةٌ / من الأرض أو مكتوبةٌ بمِدادِ ذو الرمة
11 months ago
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Lovely news. The Republic of Consciousness Prize is sending subscribers copies of A Horse at the Door (Tenement Press), my translations of selected poems by Wadih Saadeh, as its Book of the Month for March.
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11 months ago
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minor literature[s]
11 months ago
“Perhaps to write and read is to flow into our own chronic genre. And each fragment is a fugitive rebirth from the last.”: A Correspondence with Quyên Nguyễn-Hoàng — Alex Tan
minorliteratures.com/2025/03/18/p...
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“Perhaps to write and read is to flow into our own chronic genre. And each fragment is a fugitive rebirth from the last.”: A Correspondence with Quyên Nguyễn-Hoàng — Alex Tan
Quyên Nguyễn-Hoàng is the translator of Nguyễn Thanh Hiện’s Chronicles of a Village, first published by Penguin Southeast Asia in 2022 and reissued by Yale University Press in April 2024. Narrated …
https://minorliteratures.com/2025/03/18/perhaps-to-write-and-read-is-to-flow-into-our-own-chronic-genre-and-each-fragment-is-a-fugitive-rebirth-from-the-last-a-correspondence-with-quyen-nguyen-hoang-alex-tan/
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Alex Tan on Iman Mersal's Traces of Enayat
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City Addresses: Iman Mersal’s Rihla through a Dis(-)appearing Cairo
As [Mersal's] recursive and often discontinuous writing attests, the drive toward progress tends to entail an imperfect erasure, whose traces might resurface—as if through a palimpsest—if only one car...
https://www.full-stop.net/2025/02/13/features/alextan/city-addresses-iman-mersals-rihla-through-a-dis-appearing-cairo/
12 months ago
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minor literature[s]
about 1 year ago
"The enamoured sees the face of the beloved in all things, blind to all else, unable even to see them. God’s absence is what fills creation; His absence is the only possible way in which He may be present in a world that brims with injustice." – Golan Haji, tr.
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Thanks to Alex Tan for this beautifully composed review of A Horse at the Door that dobles as a fantastic primer for the poetry of Wadih Saadeh
themarkaz.org/no-place-to-...
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No Place to Be: On Wadih Saadeh’s A Horse at the Door
Alex Tan reviews the new chronology of poems from Lebanon's bard of war and exile, Wadih Saadeh, translated by Robin Moger.
https://themarkaz.org/no-place-to-be-on-wadih-saadehs-a-horse-at-the-door/
about 1 year ago
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National Book Critics Circle
about 1 year ago
We're excited to announce the shortlist for the 2024 Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize! Congratulations to all of the finalists.
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In Other Words
about 1 year ago
“None of this ever happened to Enayat. Come. Tonight we celebrate her memory."
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Haytham El Wardany's beautiful essay on writing and its purposes, [To the dead/To those yet unborn], is now up at Tenement Press's Rehearsals page:
tenementpress.com/To-the-Dead
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To the Dead — Tenement Press
Rehearsal / 29. Haytham el Wardany Translated from the Arabic by Robin Moger TO THE DEAD / TO THOSE YET UNBORN Is...
https://tenementpress.com/To-the-Dead
about 1 year ago
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Transit Books
about 1 year ago
Congratulations, Iman Mersal and Robin Moger! TRACES OF ENAYAT is longlisted for the
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Barrios Book in Translation Prize 💐💐💐
www.bookcritics.org/2024/12/19/2...
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Out now from Tenement Press, A Horse at the Door, a selection of poems by Wadih Saadeh, available direct from Tenement, or from the Asterism bookstore:
tenementpress.com/Wadih-Saadeh
asterismbooks.com/product/a-horse-at-the-door-a-chronology-of-poems-wadih-saadeh
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Wadih Saadeh — Tenement Press
A Horse at the Door Wadih Saadeh A chronology of poems selected & translated by Robin Moger Tenement Press #16 978-1-917304-02-3 169pp...
https://tenementpress.com/Wadih-Saadeh
about 1 year ago
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نص جميل كتبه الأخ الحبيب جولان حاجي بمناسبة صدور مجموعتي المترجمة لقصائد وديع سعادة
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تحية إلى وديع سعادة، ابن عظمة مطحونة - مجلة رمان الثقافية
هرطقات
https://rommanmag.com/archives/34394?fbclid=IwY2xjawHPxttleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHYd1V57_lIndemGUSPl1H_H_yXVoCD-IAeaM1xdSItboE15lFgTV81o-cQ_aem_uW7hpgOKySbRR14kqOECvA
about 1 year ago
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"Una persona si sabe leer y escribir no puede cantar Flamenco tampoco, porque ya pierde el saber pronunciar." - Manuel Agujetas "Yo le dije a mi cartero que me enseñara escribir [...] como un padre misionero" - Paco Toronjo
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Paco Toronjo y Niño Miguel ( Video Oficial )
YouTube video by Discos Rocío
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about 1 year ago
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نائل الجميل
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"ديوك وكتاكيت".. الشاعر والروائي والمترجم المصري نائل الطوخي في ضيافة نجوى بركات في مطالعات
YouTube video by العربي 2
https://youtu.be/y0TAceJEt3U?si=5ZrDi0Dkw_I3KiVJ
about 1 year ago
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"Declaración de principios: En principio yo no tengo nada contra la claridad y la amenidad. Luego, ya veremos." Roberto Bolaño, Los mitos de Cthulhu
about 1 year ago
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"Palestine will be liberated in Arabic" w/ Fady Joudah
YouTube video by Makdisi Street
https://youtu.be/gKPfDnSS0IA?si=rH_9Ba6-uHoeOVaQ
about 1 year ago
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And Other Stories
about 1 year ago
Congratulations to
@robinmoger.bsky.social
, whose translation of Traces of Enayat by Iman Mersal has been shortlisted for the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation ✨
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Sardonicus
about 1 year ago
Off to read this.
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{أثرٌ بعد عينٍ} جولان حاجي
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ملحق أدبيّ - في أسماء الحبّ
"وقال لي أثرُ نظري في كلّ شيء"النفّري، موقف "قد جاء وقتي"أثرٌ بعد عينمثل طفلٍ يلقَّن في نشأته الأولى "قُلْ: أنت" فيجيب "أنا"، قال الجنيد: "لا يكون الحبُّ بين اثنين حتى يخاطب أحدهما الآخر قائلًا: "يا أ...
https://books.openedition.org/ifpo/21692?fbclid=IwY2xjawGpLW1leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHQM02pU1-xF4Q_YAvaIPiZUW7ycp5sfepreSkCnVHwV4jB-ML7t63zNlXA_aem_XcfQzsY0Pb3TZ6DVhnN_Fg
about 1 year ago
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Joseph Schreiber
over 1 year ago
“There is something priming itself in these shadows” Strangers in Light Coats: Selected Poems, 2014 – 2020 by Ghassan Zaqtan, translated by Robin Moger
roughghosts.com/2024/07/13/t...
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“There is something priming itself in these shadows” Strangers in Light Coats: Selected Poems, 2014 – 2020 by Ghassan Zaqtan
The wooden bell that hangs in the dark is struck. Is struck. No one sees it but it is struck. No one is there and the bell is struck. It is struck on the front porch of the dream and in its shadowed c...
https://roughghosts.com/2024/07/13/there-is-something-priming-itself-in-these-shadows-strangers-in-light-coats-selected-poems-2014-2020-by-ghassan-zaqtan/
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Tom Snarsky
over 1 year ago
the idea of us, Mohab Nasr, tr. Robin Moger
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