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Innovative literature from the global South & diasporas. Translations. (bsky:@tracepress/IG:tracepress00). PACBI+
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Joined October 2019
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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📚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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Eid Mubarak to our friends & beloveds, to those standing together at al-Aqsa & in the open sea, & to the children of Gaza. —& if you wish to give a gift of poetry, please buy #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar from @openpoetrybooks @Workshops4Gaza .with proceeds going to @sameerproject.
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« That day, the Adivasi activists and Ngũgĩ reached a shared conclusion: India’s indigenous people are nothing less than ‘a non-sovereign nation’. »
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RT @WasafiriMag: In this candid essay drawing on her own experiences, our outgoing Translator-in-Residence @SawadHussain discusses the part….
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Writers who refused to add their names since Oct 2023 are suddenly signing petitions in 2025, & no doubt book deals. Did they take all this time to contemplate genocide with ‘nuance’? . — we remember the names of all who resisted silencing & spoke out from the start.
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RT @FadyJoudah: Zadie Smith signed against genocide in UK with others; a turnaround after her puppet work for the new yorker attacking stud….
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