Kareem James Abu-Zeid
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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. 
Kareem James Abu-Zeid © 2018
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