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Najlaa Eltom — A Perfect Vacuum

Mayada Ibrahim @mayadamayadamay.bsky.social · Jun 5

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!

The Name of the Body

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Mayada Ibrahim @mayadamayadamay.bsky.social · Jun 2

Today!

Part of Workshops 4 Sudan

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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.

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Circumference @circumferencemag.bsky.social · May 15

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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he is as plain and severe as his task

From Issue 10, three poems by Najlaa Eltom, translated from Arabic by Mayada Ibrahim

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Mayada Ibrahim @mayadamayadamay.bsky.social · May 6

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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Mayada Ibrahim @mayadamayadamay.bsky.social · May 6

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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Mayada Ibrahim @mayadamayadamay.bsky.social · May 6

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 ...

A City in Negative Lights

Mayada Ibrahim @mayadamayadamay.bsky.social · May 6

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

www.thecommononline.org/a-city-in-ne...

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...

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; ...

Mayada Ibrahim @mayadamayadamay.bsky.social · May 6

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...

The Common Issue 28

trace: ARABIC, BETWEEN LOVE AND WAR | Poems, Translations, Conversations

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Mayada Ibrahim @mayadamayadamay.bsky.social · Apr 26

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

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Mayada Ibrahim @mayadamayadamay.bsky.social · Apr 17

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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Join us for vibrant bilingual readings of poems from Palestine, Lebanon, Sudan, Syria, Iraq and Tunisia.

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Salon Salvage @salon-salvage.bsky.social · Apr 7

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

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Comma Press @commapress.bsky.social · Mar 31

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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Mayada Ibrahim @mayadamayadamay.bsky.social · Mar 14

I can't wait!

Salon Salvage @salon-salvage.bsky.social · Mar 14

In two weeks, we're hosting Judith Braun, Maggie Greaves, and @mayadamayadamay.bsky.social at Salvage 30 in Troy NY

Salon Salvage #30
Saturday March 29
At 7pm
Upstairs Arts Collective
403 Fulton Street in Troy
With Judith Braun
Maggie Greaves
Mayada Ibrahim

The Last Soviet Artist, by Victoria Lomasko

Mayada Ibrahim @mayadamayadamay.bsky.social · Mar 12

pre-ordered *immediately*

n+1 @nplusonemag.com · Mar 12

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!

“Victoria Lomasko’s gritty, street-level view of the great Russian people masterfully intertwines quiet desperation with open defiance.” —Joe Sacco

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The Last Soviet Artist, by Victoria Lomasko

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n+1 @nplusonemag.com · Mar 12

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!

“Victoria Lomasko’s gritty, street-level view of the great Russian people masterfully intertwines quiet desperation with open defiance.” —Joe Sacco

shop.nplusonemag.com

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Mayada Ibrahim @mayadamayadamay.bsky.social · Mar 3

I'm reading some new translations at Ridgewood this Saturday

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Mayada Ibrahim @mayadamayadamay.bsky.social · Feb 28

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

Mayada Ibrahim @mayadamayadamay.bsky.social · Feb 28

La Santa Maria La Ribera, CDMX

Mayada Ibrahim @mayadamayadamay.bsky.social · Feb 28

Still overjoyed by this! <3

The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · Feb 28

On a Woman's Madness, written by Astrid Roemer and translated by Lucy Scott, is a queer literature classic that tells the story of a courageous Black woman trying to live a life of her choosing.

Find out about the #InternationalBooker2025-longlisted book: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

Workshops4Sudan – Sudan Solidarity Collective

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Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · Feb 27

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...

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Mayada Ibrahim @mayadamayadamay.bsky.social · Feb 22

Suggestions for contemporary Arabic texts that mix prose and poetry?