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), was published by Lockwood Press in the Resources in Arabic and Islamic Studies series in 2021.​

Essays on Translation

Kareem’s essays on translation include:
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• "Toward a Non-Dual Translational Poetics," in the book Poetry's Geographies: A Transatlantic Anthology of Translations. Edited by Katherine M. Hedeen and Zoë Skoulding. UK Edition: Shearsman Books, 2022. US Edition: Eulalia Books, 2023.

 

• 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)

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• Kareem also occasionally works as a ghostwriter.