Mayada Ibrahim

An Evening of Sudanese Literature - News & Events - English PEN

In Sheffield, 27 August 2025

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The Feminist Shrine The Feminist Shrine:  A Sanctuary for Love, Gratitude, and Learning To Roya Hassan-Roya with an Alif[1] By HekmaYagoub Translated by Najlaa Eltom In exile, there is no map of mourning, no compass—o…

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Najlaa Eltom — A Perfect Vacuum The Name of the Body

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!

A Theory of Water Book Launch - Sudan Solidarity Collective A Theory of Water Book Launch with the author Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Robyn Maynard as part of the Workshops4Sudan Series.

Today!

Part of Workshops 4 Sudan

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he is as plain and severe as his task From Issue 10, three poems by Najlaa Eltom, translated from Arabic by Mayada Ibrahim

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) ⊱

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Goats in Jabal Amman ESLAM ABU HAYDAR <br> They say that Amman is merely a caravan crossing, and that the spiritual tie between it and its people has been severed. I do not mean the concept of “belonging”—that is a loade...

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Serious Attempts at Locating the City HALEEMAH DERBASHI <br> He said the name, then became preoccupied with finding batteries for his portable radio with one hand, and with the other clutching me so that the crowds would not sweep me awa...

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Confrontations with Amman: A Love-Hate Relationship RANEEM ABO RMALIA <br> As they await my departure, the stairs confess their fatigue to me. They long to release the burden of steadfastness, but I plead with them to stay for the sake of all promises ...

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A City in Negative Lights AMY ALKHALIFI <br> Fardous narrates to her customers a past they know all too well, because, in her view, people are soothed by listening to their own memories. It reassures them to know that their pa...

I have a couple of translations of writing by contemporary Jordanian writers:

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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; ...

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.

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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

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.

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.

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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
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I can't wait!

pre-ordered *immediately*

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

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:

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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!

Under the Same Sun: Publishing and Performing Latin American Translations in Nueva York This half-day symposium brings together poets, critics, editors, and translators to explore the recent surge of independent publishers in New York ...

Sad to miss this

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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.

“This book has never been more necessary, offering a framework for trans reclamation and negation of the nonprofit industrial complex.”

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War Forgets No One! “I had no choice but to become an enemy of war. I fought it through writing—and by writing, I seek to survive.”

Stella Gaitano and Najlaa Eltom 🫶🏾

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