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Innovative literature from the global South & diasporas. Translations. (bsky:@tracepress/IG:tracepress00). PACBI+
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In Arabic, the word for love حب is one letter shorter than the word for war حرب. Here, translators gather to perform an intimate labour, moving words from Arabic into English, or reversing such direction as language dissolves…
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RT @sameerproject: Two of our team members got injured during the Samer crossing bombing targeting Dr. Ahmad Qandeel, a top surgeon in Gaza….
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Hey @LitTranslate — we really wanted to present panels on translating Arabic & Tamil poetry at this year’s conference. However, keeping it IRL made it impossible for many of our translators to join. Kindly consider moving to hybrid to allow global accessibility & safety….
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ALT text: .“What happens when a two-thousand-year-old language rooted in a classical poetics of land moves, along with some of its peoples…”. cover with titles in Tamil & English & image of beached boats. Yellow background. 15% discount at
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In 2022-2023, we invited Tamil translators to gather & translate poems in our feminist, decolonial workshop series .trace: translating [x]/ TAMIL [root, branch, driftwood]. Please support this beautiful project by pre-ordering a copy of #TAMILTERRAINS
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Moved to read such beautiful remembrances of the great Urdu scholar C.M Naim. His open spirit & love of Urdu was a gift.
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📚We were invited to contribute to AllLitUp’s blog to share trace’s story & the books we are currently working on:. In House with trace press –
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RT @wcchen: . while colonialism in its formal sense might have been dismantled, the colonial state has not. Many of the problems of democr….
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RT @tracepress: ♥️Thank you to all our readers & supporters. #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar has sold out. More copies & ebook out soon… . We hope….
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« The boycott will continue ».
After months of boycott, PEN America has finally called for an arms embargo on U.S. military aid to the Zionist entity. Our pressure campaign is working, which is why we must keep pushing. Read our full campaign statement: .
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What’s most interesting about ndugu Zohran’s win is watching the reactions…. (meanwhile folks in Uganda & South Africa connecting dots & chai on M Sr. at UCT & Makarere).
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RT @tracepress: These military parades, these obscene arms sales, these ‘global’ leaders meeting on stolen lands, these complicit nations,….
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RT @openpoetrybooks: ❤️🔥The match has been met & the funds sent❤️🔥 .Thank you to everyone who contributed! The @Workshops4Gaza bookshop h….
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RT @alaafromgaza92: As Refaat’s student, I am honored to carry forward what he always dreamed of. He wanted to translate the Syrian series….
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These military parades, these obscene arms sales, these ‘global’ leaders meeting on stolen lands, these complicit nations, these technologies, these billionaires, these bombs, these drones, these betrayals. The dead, the dead, the dead, & all of us who refuse to forget them.
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♥️Thank you to all our readers & supporters. #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar has sold out. More copies & ebook out soon… . We hope these poems bring solace, & remind us of interconnected spaces & struggles.
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RT @ezzingaza: There is no internet. No signal. No sound. No world beyond this cage. I walked thirty minutes through ruins and dust. Not i….
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RT @chenchenwrites: queerness, as a liberatory politics and not just another vague personal label, must involve thinking, speaking, and act….
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