Anam Zafar
@anam_translates
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📚 Award-winning literary translator (Arabic and French to English) 🖊️ Editor 🎨 Arts facilitator ⭐ Featured on the Emerald100 Inspiring Muslims list
UK
Joined December 2020
📢New podcast OUT NOW! . 💫MAKTOOB: Arabic Stories in English💫 . co-hosted by me & Lauren Pepperell . Covering 6 countries and all sorts of literature, incl. a graphic novel, poetry, songs, novels. Episode 1: short stories from Syria. read about it:
Excited for the first episode of MAKTOOB. "Tenderness of War: Translating Short Stories from Syria," a conversation between co-hosts Lauren Pepperell & translator Anam Zafar.
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RT @Network_FT: Save the date!. Launch of our anthology of new feminist translations, with Marilyn Booth, Ruth Donnelly, Seán McDonagh, Ele….
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RT @Network_FT: What makes a translation 'feminist'? Catch up with the recording of our recent scratch night w/Marilyn Booth, Ruth Donnelly….
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📢 This Friday, online!. 💫 Come and listen to a group of translators discuss what feminist translation might be, and get a sneak peek on some works in progress. 📅 Register here:
🔔Event reminder🔔. Translation scratch night with Marilyn Booth, Ruth Donnelly, Seán McDonagh, Elete Nelson-Fearon, @cascettara & @anam_translates . Friday 9 May 2025, 7pm UK time (online). Free tickets: Funded by @ahrcpress IAA grant from @artsatbham.
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RT @StephenSpender: Calling all teachers and budding young translators!. #SSTPoetryPrize2025 is open for entries!. Translate into English a….
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RT @judecook_: Submissions are open! Please send your novel, novella, short story collection or memoir to CONDUIT BOOKS via our website bel….
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RT @Network_FT: Fri 9 May, 7-8pm, online: Marilyn Booth, Ruth Donnelly, Seán McDonagh, Elete Nelson-Fearon, @cascettara & @anam_translates….
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RT @tracepress: @Workshops4Gaza .@wawog_now .@AnotherStoryTO .@WARSCAPES .@pubforpalestine .@TPFF .(please share- last day to sign up).
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🌙🌝🌕 Over the moon to have received a translation grant for the Palestinian novella PLAYING WITH SOLDIERS by Tariq Asrawi. 🙏 Thank you @englishpen for bringing PEN Presents into our lives - and congratulations to all those shortlisted!.
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RT @AkiSchilz: The publicly funded arts sector is struggling. If you appreciate literature, art, theatre, music, now is the time. Speak abo….
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RT @arablit: This new series starts next Thurs, March 20 on ArabLit. translators in particular take note. The first conversation, betwe….
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RT @arablit: Generally, we only pay for work that's published in the print magazine (not online). But we would like to support more online….
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"My mum loves me but she is cruel. She's the one who taught me love. " . Musings on mothers, daughters & chickens just in time for #InternationalWomensDay2025 . Read Rawand Issa's A CHICKEN'S DIARY in Rawand's Arabic & my English at @TheMarkazReview now! .
themarkaz.org
Graphic novelist Rawand Issa found she could begin to think more intimately about life and love by studying her mom's chickens, and roosters.
📣 [NEW ISSUE]. Our March issue, TMR 49 • LOVE, WAR & RESISTANCE, is now live!. In which we ask the question: can love act as a transformative force during challenging times, in the face of 2000-pound bombs, drones, AI surveillance, snipers, annexation and expulsion?. Featuring
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Fearless and Free is in the Guardian! 🥹 . "Translated gorgeously by Anam Zafar & Sophie Lewis. Josephine Baker exudes love and life. And that voice!" . Thanks for the review, Dina Nayeri! .
theguardian.com
For the first time in English, the sensational memoirs of Josephine Baker – cabaret star, activist and spy
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RT @Channel4: The Oscar winning Documentary No Other Land, co-directed by a collective of Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers is available t….
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A few tickets left for our book launch tomorrow, I believe. FEARLESS AND FREE, Josephine Baker's memoir, out now for the first time in English 🌟💃.
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