Olivia Snaije
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Paris-based journalist interested in books, Middle East, African continent | work in The Africa Report, New Lines Magazine, Livres Hebdo and others | oliviasnaije.com
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Olivia Snaije
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· Aug 31
The Critic and Her Publics Archives
In a series of conversations with Merve Emre at Wesleyan University, some of today’s sharpest working critics discuss their careers and methodology, and are then asked to close-read a text that they h...
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Olivia Snaije
@oliviasnaije.bsky.social
· Aug 13
Towering Egyptian Novelist Sonallah Ibrahim Dies at 88
Egyptian novelist Sonallah Ibrahim — one of the great literary innovators of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries — died today, the Egyptian Ministry of Culture announced. He …
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· Aug 12
Day of Translation 2025 | Center for the Art of Translation | Two Lines Press
Day of Translation is a day-long celebration of language and literature featuring provocative panels on translation and culminating in a keynote conversation.
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· Jul 19
8 Finalists Announced for 2025 Prix de la Littérature Arabe
Yesterday, the eight finalists for the 2025 Prix de la littérature arabe were announced, celebrating five works in translation and three works by Arab writers originally penned in French.
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· Jul 16
Translation and the Diasporic Subjectivity
maia tabet and yasmeen hanoosh are both Arabic-English literary translators who have spent decades living and translating from multiple diasporic locales. In this conversation, they retrace the tra…
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