Events
18 May 2023: The Markaz Review WORK issue online roundtable with writers Iason Athanasiadis, Ahmed Awadalla, Nashwa Nasreldin, Meera Santhanam, Anis Shivani, and moderator Jordan Elgrably, in a conversation about work across industries, sectors, and locations.
14 May 2023: Online book launch of I WILL NOT FOLD THESE MAPS, poems by Mona Kareem, translated by Sara ElKamel (Poetry Translation Centre)
20 April 2023: “Translating a Global Language” – London Book Fair panel with Bryar Bajalan, Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi, chaired by Nariman Youssef and organised by the Poetry Translation Centre
17 November, 2022: Reading at the launch of Issue 2 of The Other Side of Hope
4 May 2022: Panel discussion for the Spring launch party of The Common journal.
June 2020: Online discussion of Shatila Stories, with its writers, editors and translator on World Refugee Day
August, 2019: Chair of Q&A at Trix Magazine’s Issue 1 launch at the Allbright Mayfair in London, with founders Jess Weiss and Carly Schwartz.
March, 2019: Panel discussion on co-translating fiction and nonfiction with Jessica West and Nashwa Gowanlock at Anthology Extended, a weekend of literary events hosted by Cheltenham’s independent bookshop, the Suffolk Anthology.
January, 2019: Imagining Egypt post-2011: City/Country, East/West, and other newly-though binaries in Abdelrashid Mahmoud’s After Coffee, at SOAS university, London, with author Abdelrashid Mahmoudi and translator Nashwa Gowanlock
June 2018: Book launch event on World Refugee Day, at Waterstones, Gower Street London: Peirene Now! presents Shatila Stories, with editors Meike Ziervogel and Suhir Helal, photographer Paul Romans, and translator Nashwa Gowanlock
Interviews
Interview in online journal Bookblast Diary, ahead of its 2018 “10 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 Ambit journal, in Yvonne Reddick’s essay: The Oil Encounter