On the bookshelf this month

So. I started to stop smoking today. I want to have as much time with my two kids as possible and be as healthy as possible, so the best way is to stop smoking. Hopefully successful this time.

New at @arablit.bsky.social ❤️

Soon on the podcast

My favorite publication of the year gets a new issue and it is as always beautiful ❤️ @arablit.bsky.social

My review on Saleem Haddad‘s Floodlines baladimagazine.com/book-review-...

My first interview for @arablit.bsky.social this year is with Sinan Antoon arablit.org/2026/01/26/s...

My first podcast in 2026 for the New Books Network is with the amazing Zainab Saleh about her new book published with @stanfordupress Here is the link: newbooksnetwork.com/political-un...

Translated by the amazing @osamahammad.bsky.social and published by Dar Arab

My first novel this year published by @interlinkbooks.bsky.social ❤️

My contributions for Arabic Literature: In Translation in 2025. I’m grateful to all those I had the chance to talk with about their work. It means more than you know to me. See you hopefully next year in 2026 ❤️ Thank you as always @Marcia Lynx Qualey and @arablit.bsky.social Part 2

My contributions for Arabic Literature: In Translation in 2025. I’m grateful to all those I had the chance to talk with about their work. It means more than you know to me. See you hopefully next year in 2026 ❤️ Thank you as always @Marcia Lynx Qualey and @arablit.bsky.social Part 1

New publication. ❤️

Looking forward to read this super interesting publication. ❤️

New publication ❤️

Recently published by @interlinkbooks.bsky.social ❤️

Published by @stanfordpress.bsky.social ❤️ University

It was an honor and a privilege to talk with Marcia Lynx Qualey about this book. Without her I wouldn’t be able to be in touch with so many authors and translators in the past few years. Thank you so much. Here is the link: newbooksnetwork.com/maria-dadouc...

My review copy from Stanford University Press arrived ❤️ Looking forward to record a podcast in September with Prof. Al-Saber

My little contribution @arablit.bsky.social with translators on Sonallah Ibrahim

My latest podcast with Prof. Booth is online: newbooksnetwork.com/jan-dost-saf... @dararab @arablit.bsky.social

On Translating ‘The Cinderellas of Muscat’ This summer, Banipal Books published Huda Hamed’s The Cinderellas of Muscat, translated by Chip Rossetti. Here, Tugrul, Huda, and Chip talk through the Cinderella figure, the translation process, and the relationship between the author and translator.…

Mentioned at @arablit.bsky.social and published by @tenementpress ❤️

Saqi Books ❤️

Thanks to everyone's support thus far! We are almost to the 33.33% we'd like to be at by the end of June.

@Stanford University Press ❤️

I am immensely grateful to be able to talk to Nubar Hovsepian about his latest book on Edward Said for the New Books Network. It means the world to me. ❤️

Some books translated by the great Robin Moger ❤️

www.asymptotejournal.com/interview/an... An Interview between Alex Tan and Robin Moger at Asymptote Journal

Coming this November

Newly published by @commapress.bsky.social and you can read a review at @arablit.bsky.social ❤️

Reading Syrian Poetry: A Conversation with Daniel Behar In his new book "Syrian Poets and Vernacular Modernity," Daniel Behar looks at a poetic movement that rose from under official state discourse in 1970s Syria. The text examines unknown poetic texts from Syria from the 1970s onward. In this…

My latest Podcast is online: newbooksnetwork.com/crossing-2

To be published with Other Press this September ❤️

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My latest interview for Arablit

Soon on the podcast ❤️

Finally I found a new job and will start mid-June. I’m grateful to everyone who believed in me. Especially my family, wife and everyone. Thank you so much. I can’t wait to start this new journey soon. ❤️

My review copy from AUC Press has arrived today. It is an honor to record a podcast with Nubar Hovsepian about his new book on Edward Said for the New Books Network. It means a lot to me. ❤️

My review copy from Banipal arrived today. Huda Hamed translated by Chip Rossetti. Looking forward to discuss this for Arablit ❤️

To be published with University of Texas Press next month ❤️

Looking forward to delve into this masterpiece ❤️

I look forward to read this book ❤️

My new podcast with Daniel Behar is online.

My first interview this year with the great Youssef Rakha is now online: qantara.de/en/article/e...

The new Arablit Quarterly from @arablit.bsky.social is here and it’s beautiful ❤️

Looking forward to read this gem ❤️

I just got a review copy from Syracuse University Press. The novel by Fadi Zaghmout will be published later this summer. Looking forward to review this. ❤️