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Yellow background with BW book cover with boats for TAMIL TERRAINs. (trace press 2025).

🔸Please support this beautiful project by pre-ordering a copy of #TamilTerrains
🔸join us on Sunday, Oct 19: 11am-1pm EST—
for a global online reading.
(details nxt week)

This is of niche industry interest, but here goes:

The digital catalog platform most independent bookstores use to peruse and order new books for their stores (called Edelweiss) has jacked up their prices on publishers to catalog new titles 200-300%.

Why does this matter?

#InternationalTranslationDay (is every day at trace press)

#InternationalTranslationDay (is every day at trace press)

2 books from trace press on a red moroccan carpet. River in an Ocean & Arabic, between Love and War.

What does it mean to write or translate from an antiracist, feminist, queer, & decolonial lens?

These are questions we explore in all our books at trace —where every day is #InternationalTranslationDay

#riverinanocean
#ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar
#TamilTerrains

The Giller prize whines that it’d be forced to close without federal funds. MOST small presses in Canada would be forced to shut down without federal funding. What do you think deserves funding—a [z]family-run prize often awarded to ‘big 5’ books—or small presses like trace?

Since the inception of the Palestine Library Frankfurt, we have been able to assemble an ever growing catalogue of hundreds of books not only on the issue of Palestine, but anticolonial and liberatory struggles worldwide. Visitors will be able to browse a selection of these at the event, and, once we start our lending program, take out books, just as in any public library. We also welcome publishers to send in samples of relevant publications to be exhibited at the liberatory book fair. In addition to this, we have a packed program of workshops, listening sessions, poetry readings, panel discussions and more, on topics such as: international law as neocolonialism (with Lena Salaymeh), the political economy of the Gaza genocide (with Shir Hever), militant forms of publishing, Palestinian song and poetry (with Club Sheikh Imam), and many more. Of great significance to the inception of this year’s fair is also our internationalist commitment. Though of course limited by both our means and the available time, we are looking forward to the interaction between movements and communities the fair will facilitate through the platforming of multiple localities of liberatory struggle.

Coming Next Month (as counterprogramming to the Frankfurt Book Fair): The 2025 Palestinian Liberatory Book Fair: arablit.org/2025/09/30/c...

We strongly condemn the summoning of Egyptian poet Ahmed Douma for the fifth time in the past year by the Supreme State Security Prosecution on fresh charges. He was released on bail of 50,000 EGP. Egypt must end its use of judicial harassment to intimidate government critics. @penmena.bsky.social

Arabic, between Love and War edited by Yasmine Haj and Norah Alkharashi ISBN: 978-1-775-2567-6-2 Poetry | Translation | Arabic   trace: translating [x] series In Arabic, the word for love حب  is one letter shorter than the word f...

Only 2 days left for 20% off 📚🌞
September
#TranslationMonth
🌊
#riverinanocean &
🌹
#ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar

Buy direct from our website & support trace’s unique (& challenging) work as a bipoc/ feminist-run publisher

tracepress.org/products/ara...

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

Mural of activist Sarah Hegazi, Church St- Toronto. Young brown-skinned woman with rainbow flag

& this, for her in Toronto, though this place could not provide her with safety from sorrow.

This is excellent and thoughtful and you should get it

Thanks, please check out & order our books! bipoc-run, feminist, decolonial, translation.

Tix for the DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival are now available.

The festival opens Oct 9 with a live performance from Fargo Nissim Tbakhi, followed by three days of award-winning films, discussions with artists, a culinary workshop & a children's program dcpfaf25.eventive.org/schedule

River in an Ocean: Essays on Translation river in an ocean: essays on translation ISBN 978-1-1775 2567-4-8 (paperback) Translation | Feminism | Decolonial | Transnational What are the histories, constraints, and possibilities of language in ...

📚🌞
20% off in Sept
#TranslationMonth
🌊
#riverinanocean &
🌹
#ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar

Buy direct from our website & support trace’s unique (& challenging) work as a bipoc/ feminist-run literary press.

tracepress.org/products/riv...

River in an Ocean: Essays on Translation river in an ocean: essays on translation ISBN 978-1-1775 2567-4-8 (paperback) Translation | Feminism | Decolonial | Transnational What are the histories, constraints, and possibilities of language in ...

📚🌞
20% off in Sept
#TranslationMonth
🌊
#riverinanocean &
🌹
#ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar

Buy direct from our website & support trace’s unique (& challenging) work as a bipoc/ feminist-run literary press.

tracepress.org/products/riv...

The photo is an announcement for The Ex-Puritan's 2025 Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence. The submission deadline is October 24, 2025. First prize: $1000, runner-up: $200. On the left is a photo of poetry judge Faith Arkorful against a purple background. On the right is a photo of fiction judge Iryn Tushabe against a blurred background.

The 2025 Austin Clarke Prize is open for submissions! This year's prize will be judged by Iryn Tushabe (fiction) & Faith Arkorful (poetry). To learn more & submit your work: ex-puritan.ca/news/the-202...

Book with off white background & title, River in an Ocean: essays on translation. With blue image by Pakistani artist Lala Rukh of moonlit river on an ocean & names of all contributors. Edited by Nuzhat Abbas

Some responses to US event, from Trinidad to Uganda, shows how far & deep US evangelical networks run.

Time to re-read Iryn Tushabe’s brilliant memoir-essay “Saved” on colonialism, religion & language in Uganda in #riverinanocean
(essays on translation)

#TranslationMonth

Chile, Afghanistan, Iraq…

the threads extend before & after 2001.

our hearts are still with those tortured, those killed in the millions, those children of Iraq that were called ‘collateral damage.’

Box with multiplr copies of bilingual poetry book ARABIC, BETWEEN LOVE AND WAR. Cover has calligraphic text in Arabic + book title in English

🌹Thinking of you, dear readers, as we unpack 2nd print run of #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar 🌹

Read the poems alone, in groups & in public.

Please order from our website & local bookstores in Canada & US. We also have a European distributor so email us to ask.

That’s our challenge! Lets chat via email…

trace press trace press publishes books that illuminate, in complex, beautiful and thought-provoking ways, contemporary and historical experiences of conflict, displacement, migration, labour, love and resistance...

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Box with multiplr copies of bilingual poetry book ARABIC, BETWEEN LOVE AND WAR. Cover has calligraphic text in Arabic + book title in English

🌹Thinking of you, dear readers, as we unpack 2nd print run of #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar 🌹

Read the poems alone, in groups & in public.

Please order from our website & local bookstores in Canada & US. We also have a European distributor so email us to ask.

Beware the warmonger.
And the capitalist who sees a buck in death.

📚#TranslateMonth

A time for closure (yes, #TamilTerrains is almost ready to print!) & boxes of our 2nd print-run for #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar just arrived…

& a time for new beginnings—signing contracts & receiving manuscripts for trace’s 🌶️award-winning 2026 & 2027 lists.

Arabic, between Love and War edited by Yasmine Haj and Norah Alkharashi ISBN: 978-1-775-2567-6-2 Poetry | Translation | Arabic   trace: translating [x] series In Arabic, the word for love حب  is one letter shorter than the word…

In this bilingual poetry anthology edited by Norah Alkharashi and Yasmine Haj, “language dissolves into cities, landscapes, or portals that open to rubble, or only air.”

Read ARABIC, BETWEEN LOVE AND WAR (@tracepress.bsky.social) this #NationalTranslationMonth: tracepress.org/products/ara...

River in an Ocean: Essays on Translation Trace Press. 2023. 223 pages.

As #WomenInTranslationMonth comes to an end (& #TranslationMonth begins… revisiting World Literature Today’s review of #riverinanocean our feminist decolonial collection of essays on translation

We need your voice now to support arts and culture in Canada!

Please send a letter through our campaign. We need all who care about culture - business leaders, students, artists, audiences, everyone - to submit a letter before Sept 15. canadianartscoalition.com/campaign-for-culture-2025/

🩸Their blood is their mosques… their churches,
windows to their homes,
their love and their anger,
a piercing reproach

—Ibrahim Nasrallah
(trans. Eman Abukhadra) 🩸

🩸Their blood is their mosques… their churches,
windows to their homes,
their love and their anger,
a piercing reproach

—Ibrahim Nasrallah
(trans. Eman Abukhadra) 🩸