October 21: Translating Palestine

Friday, October 21st7pm Ramallah  |   5pm London   |   12pm New York   Writers, translators and editors celebrate new writing from Palestine. M. Lynx Qualey, Sawad Hussain and Alice Yousef will start us off with a panel on the challenges of translating and publishing writing from Palestine. We will also feature conversations about recently published books. Jehan Bseiso will speak with Maya Abu Al-Hayyat about her volume You Can Be The Last Leaf translated by Fady Joudah. Meg Arenberg will chat with author Sonia Nimr and translator M. Lynx Qualey about the release of the second book of the young adult series Thunderbird. Suchitra Vijayan will talk to publisher and editor Louis Allday about their recently released On Zionist Literature by Ghassan Kanafani translated by Mahmoud Najib. About the participantsMaya Abu Al-Hayyat is a Palestinian novelist and poet living in Jerusalem.Sawad Hussain is an Arabic translator, litterateur and Palestine Book Award judge.Alice S. Yousef is a Pa