Writing

Kareem writes on a range of topics for different media outlets. His recent projects include essays on translation and a book-length ghost-writing/editing project on cutting-edge leadership practices in the field of international education.

Kareem's book The Poetics of Adonis and Yves Bonnefoy: Poetry as Spiritual Practice, which is adapted from his PhD dissertation, is forthcoming (early 2021) from Lockwood Press in the Resources in Arabic and Islamic Studies series.

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Dissertation

Kareem has completed one full-length book, his PhD dissertation in Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley:

• Poetry as Spiritual Practice: The Poetics of Adonis and Yves Bonnefoy. Originally published online by Proquest, 2016. 152 pages.
• A revised version of this, entitled The Poetics of Adonis and Yves Bonnefoy: Poetry as Spiritual Practice, is forthcoming (early 2021) from Lockwood Press in the Resources in Arabic and Islamic Studies series.

Essays on Translation

Kareem’s essays on translation include:
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• A Very Long Road to Publication. Or: Why You Shouldn't Give Up on Your "Failed" Translation Projects. Asymptote, 2020.
  

• On Translating al-Mu‘allaqāt, The Hanging Poems, on the Popula journalism website. 

• “Three Versions of Adonis,” in the book Into English, ed. Martha Collins and Kevin Prufer, Graywolf Press, 2017

 

• “Translation’s Resistance: On Najwan Darwish,” in the book An Anthology of World Literature in Translation, ed. Karen An-hwei Lee et al., press TBD, forthcoming

 

• “New Hegiras: Reflections on Translating Adonis,” in the book America and the Orient, ed. Heike Schäfer, Winter Verlag (Heidelberg University Press), 2006 ​

Other Writing

• ​“From Montana to Cairo, With Love: A Review of Pauls Toutonghi’s Novel Evil Knievel Days,” Public Books (January 28, 2013)

• “The Arab Spring and Adonis’ Revolution, in Context: A Reply to Sinan Antoon,” Jadaliyya (Sept. 19, 2011)

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• Kareem also occasionally works as a ghostwriter.