Ursula Lindsey

🍉 TMR 57 • PALESTINE is live! If Palestine is to be free and a land for all its inhabitants, it seems to us that it must remain the cause of our lifetimes, however protracted, however difficult, however insurmountable it may seem. Featuring work by: Jordan Elgrably (@JordanElgrably), Mariam Mushtaha, Esraa Abo Qamar, Gabriel Polley (@gabriel_polley), Mark LeVine (@culturejamming), Sholeh Wolpé (@Sholeh_Wolpe), Jim Quilty (@quiltyjim), Rebecca Ruth Gould (@rrgould), Bulaq (@bulaqbooks), Omar El Akkad (@omarelakkad), A Mom from Bethlehem, Sheryl Ono (@nosheryl), Raja Shehadeh, Sahar Mustafah, Rana Asfour (@bookfabulous), Arie Amaya-Akkermans (@byzantinologue ) 🔗 Read the new issue now: bit.ly/tmr57-palestine #TheMarkazReview #TMR57 #Palestine #SWANAlit #MiddleEastArts #NewIssue #Fiction #Essays #Poetry #Art

On the anniversary of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, I discuss its legacy and the impetus for my forthcoming book, Counterrevolution in Egypt. @VersoBooks versobooks.com/blogs/news/the…

If you want more Hoda Barakat, don't miss our most recent episode, as well as the extended conversation on ArabLit: arablit.org/2025/12/10/lis…

On how her books start with questions and with the irrepressible voices of characters; and how living in Paris, while remaining deeply connected to Lebanon, gives her a distance that allows her to be critical, independent, "even more radical."

"In each of my novels, there are people who are unbalanced, who are lost, who don’t have the strength to struggle against fate." Had the great pleasure of talking to the Lebanese author Hoda Barakat earlier this Fall.

Hjorth's writing may be the Scandinavian auto-fiction you haven't heard of/read yet. It's amazing. Discussed in this review: a book about loving, determinedly and disastrously, an awful man; about holding a secret that will blow your family apart; about stalking your mother.

Several years back, a Norwegian friend in a book club introduced me to Hjorth's work. I was blown away, as was everyone else in our group. I've been reading and recommending her ever since, and I've finally written a review.

🎧WEEKEND LISTENING: Inji Efflatoun, An Egyptian Artist Who Traced Her Own Path. W/Ahmed Gobba and Avery Gonzales, co-translators of Efflatoun’s 1993 memoir, “The Memoir of Inji Efflatoun: From Childhood to Prison.” Listen now: lnk.to/XoBG5j

🎧NEW ON BULAQ: Inji Efflatoun, An Egyptian Artist Who Traced Her Own Path. With Ahmed Gobba and Avery Gonzales, co-translators of Efflatoun’s 1993 memoir, “The Memoir of Inji Efflatoun: From Childhood to Prison.” Listen now: lnk.to/XoBG5j

To celebrate the release of Alaa Abd el-Fattah from prison, Fitzcarraldo is making the ebook of YOU HAVE NOT YET BEEN DEFEATED, tr. an anon collective, available to download for free for the next week via all ebook platforms, including Kindle and Apple Books, until 30 September.

Finally! All the love and respect in the world to Alaa and his family

Home.

🎙️A new look at this past episode: on Sonallah Ibrahim (1937-2025) and two of his great novels, WARDA and STEALTH, both tr. Hosam Aboul-ela. Listen now, wherever you find your podcasts: lnk.to/eLRZTF

Warda is an exploration of forgotten history, leftist engagement, and female liberation. lnk.to/eLRZTF

At @bulaqbooks we are re-running an episode in which we talk about Ibrahim and his novel Warda, in which he imagined an Egyptian female freedom fighter who joins the Dhofar rebellion in Yemen in the 1960s.

I wrote a little something about Sonallah Ibrahim, who was one of Egypt's most talented and original writers and an intellectual of rare principle and honesty. He died August 13. ursulalindsey.com/blog/goodbye-s…

I'm deeply grateful to @MarciaLynx and @ursulind for the important work they've been doing over the years. I recently had the pleasure of being featured on their excellent podcast, @bulaqbooks, where we discussed the life and works of Mohamed Choukri. The conversation flew by, and there is so much more to say. I look forward to future conversations. #LiteraturePosts #translation #fiction #literarytranslation #shortstories #novels

Read this: nybooks.com/online/2025/07…

Join us for a talk with Jonas Elbousty about the iconic and brutally honest Moroccan writer Mohamed Choukri.

@vijayprashad @nybooks @JElbousty Thank you! We had a great chat with @JElbousty on the last episode of @bulaqbooks, he talked about Choukri's brutal honesty and why For Bread Alone is due for a new translation into English.

Thoroughly enjoyed reading the review by @ursulind of a number of books about and by Mohamed Choukri in the @nybooks. I have always felt grateful to @JElbousty for his robust translations, and to Paul Bowles for being, well, as they say, Paul Bowles.