Ibrahim Fawzy | إبراهيم فوزي

"El Guabli insists that Saharanism is an ideological deafness, a learned incapacity to hear or register the voices, stories, and intricate relationships that make up desert life, so that only fantasies of absence, danger, or utility are recognized" open.substack.com/pub/themassach…

My conversation with literary translator, Ibrahim Fawzy is up at all the places!! @DeepVellum @ConsequenceF michellereneebrady.podbean.com #booktok #translation

Coming Friday: a discussion with literary translator, Ibrahim Fawzy of @ConsequenceF, @DeepVellum!! Sneak peek: youtube.com/shorts/hTLRsWZ…

"The stories of the genocide in Gaza are unbearably difficult to tell, but I believe they are most truthfully carried in a poem, surrounded by an expanse of white space that mirrors both silence and grief." #10Questions Ibrahim Fawzy from our Gaza issue: massreview.org/2025/12/08/7-q…

⤵️ Interview with Ibrahim Fawzy on the politics and poetics of translation

In this essay, the legacy of the Egyptian novel is taken through the history of The International Prize for Arabic Fiction. How has this tremendous national literature metamorphosed, witnessed, and invented throughout the last eighteen years? Find out! tinyurl.com/366zxhz3

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An excellent review of my most recent translation by the esteemed John Bew, who clearly knows his stuff. observer.co.uk/culture/books/… #Kissinger #foreignpolicy #Europe

This week, our editors fill us in on the controversial withholding of a young writers short story prize in Egypt and an exciting new Canadian-led digital humanities initiative. Read on to find out more! tinyurl.com/bdjkh4kc

Dive into this interview with the author and translator of our December Book Club pick— Belal Fadl’s The Completely True Tales of Um Mimi and Sharawi the Adulterer. We speak about authorial honesty, the book’s reputation, and facing reality in fiction: tinyurl.com/378vvfzk

كتابة بديعة من الأستاذ إبراهيم فوزي عن الترجمة الإنجليزية لرواية (أم ميمي) الصادرة عن دار عرب في لندن، أنا والمترجم أسامة حماد محظوظان بمثل هذه القراءة الواعية والجميلة، الرواية متوفرة في منافذ بيع الكتب. سيسعدني المشاركة مع أسامة في لقاء يديره الأستاذ إبراهيم في Asymptote Book Club يوم 6 يناير القادم وبإذن الله يصدر الجزء الثاني من الرواية وعنوانه (جيزة جيزة جيزة) قريبا عن دار المدى. مع خالص التحية والتقدير. asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/12/3…

🇸🇾 مراجعة بعنوان " أوطان متخيلة: رحلة السوريين بحثًا عن الوطن". 📘 تقدم ويندي بيرلمان، في كتابها "وطن صنعناه: أصوات من الشتات السوري الجديد"، سردًا عميقًا لمحنة السوريين الذين أُجبروا على ترك ديارهم. وتتتبّع قصص هؤلاء الأفراد وهم يسعون لبناء هوية جديدة في ظلّ الخسارة، وتستكشف معاني الوطن المتعدّدة التي تبلورت في نفوسهم. 🖋️ بقلم إبراهيم فوزي @IbrahimSayedF1 📎 اقرأ المراجعة كاملة على موقع الصالون: al-salon.com/article/aot-n-…

A beautifully written review by @IbrahimSayedF1 asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/12/3…

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"His particular fixation on kitchenware, much of it bargain kitchenware, remains mysterious and a mark of his eccentricity."

From European readings in Hong Kong to the release of Egyptian activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah and the global recognition of Indian literary giants like Amitav Ghosh, discover this week’s highlights from literature and activism: tinyurl.com/brpput9p

Narrated with lyrical intensity by thirteen-year-old Kamiran, Syrian writer Jan Dost’s Safe Corridor blends brutal reality with Kafkaesque metaphor, depicting Syria’s conflict and the ways by which its abhorrent violence is processed and internalized: tinyurl.com/2jnru27w

🌍✍️ Resharing our Community Engagement Coordinator & Contributing Writer, @attfield_betty's, blog piece on what took place at this year's Write the World: A Day of Translation on the 27th of May, hosted by American Literary Translators Association (ALTA @LitTranslate). Translators, writers, and literary advocates from around the globe, including @IbrahimSayedF1, @kolatubosun, came together to explore the craft, challenges, and possibilities of translation today. It was more than a conference: it was a celebration of language as a living, shared experience ⬇️ buff.ly/0cR2qhT

“[T]he novel captures how war is not only fought on battlefields but also inscribed upon the bodies and imaginations of children.” This month’s Book Club Pick: Safe Corridor by Jan Dost—a war in Syria told through surreal witness: tinyurl.com/2t7wj3j7

Weekly dispatches from the frontlines of world lit: remembering Sonallah Ibrahim, icon of Arabic literature; new prizes and reissues in Central America; and celebrating revolutionary Bulgarian poet Boris Hristov. Explore more here: tinyurl.com/4mtf69u8

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