Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish, Atef Alshaer & Paul Batchelor appear at the Manchester Literature Festival to celebrate the launch of ‘Embrace’,

Join Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish, translator Atef Alshaer & poet UK Paul Batchelor for the launch of Darwish’s new collection ‘Embrace.’

This workshop on Arabic poet Najwan Darwish will be introduced by returning guest translator Atef Alshaer who has led a number of our recent workshops on Arabic poetry.

Najwan Darwish is a leading voice in contemporary Arabic literature, working as a poet, journalist, editor and critic. The New York Review of Books has described him as “one of the foremost Arabic-language poets of his generation”.

Our upcoming workshop translating Arabic poet Amjad Nasser with Atef Alshaer is now fully booked. We are starting a waiting list so if you are still interested in coming to this session please get in touch.

Could translation ever be considered evil? Possibly a necessary evil? A discussion with Hanna Ali, Atef Alshaer, Alireza Abiz & Spoken Word performances by Usaama Minhas & Marika Mckennell

Atef Alshaer will be introducing the work of well-known Jordanian poet Amjad Nasir at this workshop. Amjad Nasir’s work has a strong narrative elements and is written in a prose poem style. The workshop will be facilitated by English poet Clare Pollard.

Arabic translator Atef Alshaer leads a workshop focusing on the work of Syrian poet Fouad Mohammad Fouad. This workshop will look at completing the translation of Fouad Mohammad Fouad’s poem Aleppo Diary which was begun at a previous poetry translation workshop.

In our last workshop, we translated a beautiful poem from Arabic, ‘The Speaking Hour’ by Abdullah al Ryami from Oman. The finished poem and notes on how we translated it are now available on our website.

As part of our Two African Poets Tour, the Sudanese poet, Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi, joined us for a special workshop for translators.

The Sudanese poet Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi joins us for a special workshop for translators.