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East Bay Booksellers @ebbooksellers.bsky.social · 3d

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?

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trace press @tracepress.bsky.social · 9d

#InternationalTranslationDay (is every day at trace press)

trace press @tracepress.bsky.social · Feb 14

“I want to love you without war/ but without flowers either”
—Samar Diab, “Love Poems” (trans. Nofel)

Read this, & other extraordinary poems in
#ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar

#translation
#poetry
#Arabic

Arabic Between Love and War- cover: off white
with black & red arabic calligraphy & english title. BW photo of ocean.

p.24 & 25 from Arabic Between Love and War. “Love Poems” by Samar Diab. Translated into English by Nofel.

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trace press @tracepress.bsky.social · 9d

#InternationalTranslationDay (is every day at trace press)

trace press @tracepress.bsky.social · Feb 14

“I want to love you without war/ but without flowers either”
—Samar Diab, “Love Poems” (trans. Nofel)

Read this, & other extraordinary poems in
#ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar

#translation
#poetry
#Arabic

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trace press @tracepress.bsky.social · 9d

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

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

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trace press @tracepress.bsky.social · 9d

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?

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ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social · 9d

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

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.

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PEN International @peninternational.bsky.social · 10d

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

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trace press @tracepress.bsky.social · 10d

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...

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...

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 12d

“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.

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trace press @tracepress.bsky.social · 16d

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

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

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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.bsky.social · 19d

This is excellent and thoughtful and you should get it

trace press @tracepress.bsky.social · 22d

📚🌞
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 ...

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trace press @tracepress.bsky.social · 18d

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

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Amplify Palestine @amplifypalestine.bsky.social · 18d

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

DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival 2025

dcpfaf25.eventive.org

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trace press @tracepress.bsky.social · 22d

📚🌞
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 ...

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trace press @tracepress.bsky.social · 22d

📚🌞
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 ...

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The Ex-Puritan @ex-puritan.bsky.social · Aug 25

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...

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.

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trace press @tracepress.bsky.social · 27d

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

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

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trace press @tracepress.bsky.social · 28d

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.’

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trace press @tracepress.bsky.social · 29d

🌹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.

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

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trace press @tracepress.bsky.social · 29d

That’s our challenge! Lets chat via email…

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trace press @tracepress.bsky.social · 29d

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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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trace press @tracepress.bsky.social · 29d

🌹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.

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Christi Belcourt @christibelcourt.com · Sep 6

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

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trace press @tracepress.bsky.social · Sep 5

📚#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.

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · Sep 4

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...

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…

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