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 a revised version of his PhD dissertation (Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley, 2016), is forthcoming from Lockwood Press in the Resources in Arabic and Islamic Studies series: June 2021.
Kareem's book The Poetics of Adonis and Yves Bonnefoy: Poetry as Spiritual Practice, which is a revised version of his PhD dissertation (Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley, 2016), is forthcoming from Lockwood Press in the Resources in Arabic and Islamic Studies series: June 2021.
Essays on Translation
Kareem’s essays on translation include:
- An untitled reflection on translating Najwan Darwish's poetry for The Operating System on Medium.com, as part of National Poetry Month 2021.
- 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)
- Kareem also occasionally works as a ghostwriter.