An earthquake inspired Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine’s Agadir, published in French in 1967 and translated to English by Jake Syersack and Pierre Joris. Part playtext, part novel, part political essay, part poem, this insurrection of a book takes as its starting point the devastating 1960 earthquake that struck the Moroccan city. 

Show Notes: 

We also talked about a few recently published and forthcoming poetry collections.

Mohamed Stitou’s Two Half Faces, translated by David Colmer (Phoneme Media)

Ra’ad Abdulqadir’s Except for This Unseen Thread, translated by Mona Kareem (Ugly Duckling Presse)

Ibn Arabi’s The Translator of Desires, translated by Michael Sells (Princeton University Press)

Yasmine Seale and Robin Moger’s Agitated Air: Poems After Ibn Arabi (Tenement Press).

An earthquake inspired Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine’s <a href="https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9781944884857/agadir.aspx">Agadir,</a> published in French in 1967 and translated to English by Jake Syersack and Pierre Joris. Part playtext, part novel, part political essay, part poem, this insurrection of a book takes as its starting point the devastating 1960 earthquake that struck the Moroccan city. 
Show Notes: 
We also talked about a few recently published and forthcoming poetry collections.
Mohamed Stitou’s <a href="https://amzn.to/2RQ76vJ">Two Half Faces</a>, translated by David Colmer (Phoneme Media)
Ra’ad Abdulqadir’s <a href="https://amzn.to/2P76WPy">Except for This Unseen Thread</a>, translated by Mona Kareem (Ugly Duckling Presse)
Ibn Arabi’s <a href="https://amzn.to/2P2H3Ag">The Translator of Desires</a>, translated by Michael Sells (Princeton University Press)
Yasmine Seale and Robin Moger’s <a href="https://tenementpress.com/Agitated-Air">Agitated Air: Poems After Ibn Arabi</a> (Tenement Press).

BULAQ is a book-centric podcast co-hosted by Ursula Lindsey (in Amman, Jordan) and M Lynx Qualey (in Rabat, Morocco). It focuses on Arabic literature in translation and is named after the first printing press established in Egypt in 1820. Produced by Sowt.

BULAQ is a book-centric podcast co-hosted by Ursula Lindsey (in Amman, Jordan) and M Lynx Qualey (in Rabat, Morocco). It focuses on Arabic literature in translation and is named after the first printing press established in Egypt in 1820. Produced by Sowt.

BULAQ | بولاق

BULAQ is a podcast about contemporary writing from and about the Middle East and North Africa. We talk about books written in Aleppo, Cairo, Marrakech and beyond. We look at the Arab region through the lens of literature, and we look at literature -- what it does, why it matters, how it relates to society and history and politics -- from the point of view of this part of the world.  BULAQ is co-produced by ArabLit and The Arabist and is hosted by Ursula Lindsey and M Lynx Qualey.

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