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Part time writer/translator/editor, part time pasta lover! Los Angeles, CA Joined February 2012-
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“You break my heart, my love. I lean toward you” “Maro” by Essayed Taha is up on the site now: losangelesreview.org/maro-by-essaye… #LARfiction
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I condemn Hamas killing 1400 Israelis. I condemn Israel killing 1400 Gazans. I condemn Israel killing 1400 Gazans. I condemn Israel killing 1400 Gazans. I condemn Israel killing 1400 Gazans. I condemn Israel killing 1400 Gazans.
This account is full of bullshit. We don’t need these lies. I don’t know what his motives are but his propaganda is equally harmful.
This account is full of bullshit. We don’t need these lies. I don’t know what his motives are but his propaganda is equally harmful.
“It’s so false, not even the opposite is true.”
“It’s so false, not even the opposite is true.”
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🚨ArabLit contributor Essayed Taha has put together a special section on the role of editors in Arabic literature. Thanks to everyone who participated, both editors & authors (and those who do both). arablit.org/2023/10/04/aut…
Grateful and proud 🥰
Grateful and proud 🥰
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Our SUMMER READS list is here. Thanks to Essayed Taha for putting this together. arablit.org/2023/06/05/sum…
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Thanks to our Essayed Taha for interviewing a dozen Arab women writers about THEIR favorite Arab women writers, for #WiTMonth. Including women writers from Syria, Lebanon, Saudi, Iraq, Egypt, Palestine, Libya, Yemen, & Morocco: arablit.org/2023/08/14/wom…
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Our newest member, Essayed Taha, has put together this incredible resource for #WiTMonth: conversations with nine women across the Arab/ic publishing landscape. A delight to read & so much packed in here: arablit.org/2023/08/07/ara…
I don’t know if this is a sign or what! But today I was a little down and the solution I came up with was to bake!!
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Friday Finds: A New Excerpt from ‘Born: The Story of Naela Kamel, née Marie Elie Rosenthal’ arablit.org/2020/06/26/fri…
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"'I’m Egyptian, and I’m staying in Egypt. I’m not leaving,' that was it. It was a decision I made, and I haven’t changed my mind for one second since 1948." A new story from Nadia Kamel, translated by Brady Ryan and Essayed Taha, on LAR online!
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“The communist guys took one look at me and said: ‘This one here would be perfect. No one would suspect her.’” Nadia Kamel recounts her mother’s undercover operations in a 1940s Egyptian communist cell in this essay, tr. Brady Ryan and Essayed Taha. bit.ly/3a1aoQZ
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