Ibrahim Fawzy | إبراهيم فوزي
@IbrahimSayedF1
Wijhat 2023 grantee @culture_res; 2022 Arabic mentee @WritersCentre; @EnglishPEN winner; 2024 ALTA travel fellow @LitTranslate; 2024 Fellow @theafricainst
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Grateful to Ursula Lindsay for her fascinating piece on Mohamed Choukri in @nybooks, where she reviews both Tales of Tangier and Faces. @Georgetown_UP @yalepress @MChoukriAuthor nybooks.com/articles/2025/…
How do translators become ambassadors of their practice—and their culture? In this profile of frequent contributor and translation superstar @AntonHur, Soumashree Sarkar considers the ways translators like Hur challenge simple narratives in their work: thewire.in/books/translat…
New episode is out now on @NewBooksNetwork! Diving into the sea of Mohamed Choukri with @JElbousty! We talk translation, memory, and stories that refuse to be silenced. Tune in wherever you get your podcasts. open.spotify.com/episode/2d4rHw…
This will be entirely online. Apply to one of the two free spots before June 8.
Tsitsi Jaji: "Translation, to pluck words from another's tongue..." #WriteTheWorld #translation
From @LitTranslate on 🦋: Starting soon! Write the World: A Day of Translation, 9:00am PT, "From Writers to Readers: The Impact of Translation Awards" feat. E. Cox, S. Rucchi, M. Cooperson, M. Solovej, & sponsored by the Sheikh Zayed Book Award! Register: literarytranslators.org/event/write-th…
From ALTA on 🦋: The final event of Write the World: A Day of Translation is starting soon! Don't miss "New Directions in African Literary Translation" starting at 1:00pm PT, featuring @IbrahimSayedF1, @attfield_betty, @kolatubosun, and Tsitsi Ella Jaji. #WriteTheWorld #xl8
A must-read. arablit.org/2025/05/23/we-…
Engaging & thought-provoking talk today at @UChiFrankeInst by @sawadhussain on the power(lessness) of the translator & her experience as a #translator of Arabic literature. Thank you, Sawad, for sharing your insights & for taking the time to attend our Arabic Nadwa! #translation
Did you know the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation was established nearly twenty years ago? Ibrahim Fawzy guides us through the most recent shortlist and explores how these six works converge around the act of bearing witness: tinyurl.com/2uu4r2s7
The Archaeology of Writing: A Conversation between Mauritanian Writer Ahmed Fal Al Din and @IbrahimSayedF1 olongoafrica.com/the-archeology…
The Archaeology of Writing: A Conversation with the Mauritanian Writer Ahmed Vall Dine via @OlongoAfrica olongoafrica.com/the-archeology…
"These Writings, visceral and immediate, testify to the enduring human need to bear witness and speak truth to power." I reviewed Imprisoning a Revolution (curated by Collective Antigone and published by @ucpress) for @worldlittoday worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/may/impri…
Read her work in the GRIEF issue tomorrow.
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Presenting Slender Thorns at the Rabat book fair with @mlynxqualey @arablit @BritishCouncil
Please help us with the absences in this list. Grateful to @Hragy and Marilyn Booth for the additions. More today at ArabLit.
New edition of Samira Azzam's OUT OF TIME, tr. Ranya Abdelrahman, coming June 3 2025.
FRIDAY May 16- 8 pm Molasses Books (Brooklyn) Join Mayada Ibrahim & Miled Faiza reading poems / translations from #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar (@tracepress) with Laura al-Tibi & Amr Amer.
Thank you very much, dear Ibrahim, for the invitation. I truly enjoyed our conversation. Keep up your amazing work!
Thanks to Jonas Elbousty (@JElbousty) who has agreed to be on my podcast today on the @NewBooksNetwork. We had a wonderful and rich discussion about his work on Mohamed Choukri! A special episode is coming your way. Stay tuned!!