Interviews & events

Events

April, 2026: If This Be Magic: Shakespeare in Translation with Daniel Hahn, National Centre for Writing, Norwich, UK (moderator)
March, 2026: Read like a Translator: Translation and the Year of Reading, London Book Fair (moderator)
January, 2026: Notes from the Margins, Ballincollig Winter Music Festival 2026, Cork, Ireland (poetry by Batool Abu Akleen and Hiba Abu Nada, with Somaia Abu Nada)
July, 2025: Publishing Palestine: Challenging Industry Barriers, Tagore’s Salon, Brick Lane Bookshop, London, UK
January, 2025: Perspectives on Practice: Translators in Conversation, Jaipur BookMark, Jaipur Literature Festival
September, 2024: ‘State of the Translation World’, International Translation Day panel, Senate House, London (English PEN)
March, 2024: ‘Fear and Loathing in Translation‘, London Book Fair panel (Literary Translation Centre)

Workshops

July 2026: We Are Here: a creative writing community workshop at Ipswich Library
July 2025: BCLT Summer School, Multilingual Prose workshop leader
November 2023: Translate Arabic poetry by Haifa Aljabri with guest translator Nashwa Nasreldin. With facilitator Leo Boix, for The Poetry Translation Centre.

Interviews

Interview in The National on Why Arabic translators are needed now more than ever
Interview in online journal Bookblast Diary, ahead of its 201810 x 10 tour” of UK independent publishers
Interview in Book After Book blog

Features

Featured in ‘Advice on teaching The Common journal
Featured in Women in translation in The Common
Featured in Egyptian Streets’ Summer Reads suggestions: 11 Literary Works by Egyptian writers
Featured in Yvonne Reddick’s essay: The Oil Encounter