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Interviews


Kareem has been interviewed about translation by various organizations and news outlets:

  • "Two Guitars Vibrating at the Same Frequency": An interview with Najwan Darwish and Kareem James Abu-Zeid conducted by Ali Al-Jamri for the journal Modern Poetry in Translation (May 2023).
 
  • "Reading Palestine in French": An interview conducted by Tugrul Mende for the journal Asymptote (May 11, 2023).
 
  • Featured in the UAE newspaper The National (November 1, 2022). 
 
  • Interviewed by Marcia Lynx Qualey for ArabLit on winning the 2022 Sarah Maguire Prize for Poetry in Translation (November 1, 2022).
 
  • Interviewed for the Afikra Book Club podcast series, on translations of Palestinian poetry and Lebanese prose (March 9, 2022). 
 
  • Featured in Robin Myers' translation column "The Guest" on Poetry Palette (May 2021)
 
  • 2021 interview by Matthew Davis and Vivek Narayanan on the "Globally Lit" podcast, in conjunction with the Cheuse International Writers Center
 
  • 2021 interview on the BBC 3 program Free Thinking, on the episode "Syria: Hope and Poetry"
 
  • 2021 interview, "A Wave in the Sea," on Words Without Borders: conducted by Kareem with Najwan Darwish   
 
  • 2019 interview by Marcia Lynx Qualey ('Songs of Mihyar the Damascene': A Translation that Took 16 Years to Publish) for the Arabic Literature (in English) website
 
  • 2017 interview by Marcia Lynx Qualey ("On Bringing the Mu'allaqat into English") for the Arabic Literature (in English) website
 
  • 2017 interview by Simon Leser for Culture Trip’s feature of 20 Literary Translators Under 40 
 
  • 2016 interview by Jessie Chaffee for Words Without Borders, part of The Translator Relay 
 
  • 2016 interview (“Translation, A Reciprocal Process”) by Liz Kelley for Three Percent 
 
  • 2016 interview by John Feffer for Epicenter, an initiative of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington 
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  • 2014 interview by Nathalie Handal for Guernica Magazine
 
  • 2014 interview by Rachel Monroe for Marfa Public Radio, as part of the Lannan Writer-in-Residence Program
 
  • 2012 interview by Marcia Lynx Qualey for Arabic Literature in English​
 
Kareem James Abu-Zeid © 2018
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