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Translating Trauma, the Trauma of Translating

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By Leri Price, Samar Yazbek, Tugrul Mende
| ArabLit
Interviews Gaza, Leri Price, Samar Yazbek, Tugrul Mende, Your Presence is a Danger to Your Life Leri Price on Translating Samar Yazbek’s Your Presence is a Danger to Your Life: Voices from Gaza In Conversation with Tugrul Mende In Your Presence is a Danger to Your Life: Voices from Gaza, Samar Yazbek made it her task to meet with the survivors of an ongoing genocide. While news headlines inform, this book tries to bring forward the human element to the forefront of the genocide.
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Memories of Diminishment

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By Ibtihal Rida Mahmood, Samar Yazbek
| ArabLit
Nonfiction, Palestine, Reviews Gaza, Ibtihal Rida Mahmood, Samar Yazbek Yesterday, we had a conversation with Samar Yazbek. Today, a review of her book. On Samar Yazbek’s Your Presence Is a Danger to Your Life: Voices from Gaza By Ibtihal Rida Mahmood “The people of Gaza don’t need our pity, but our acknowledgement of their bravery, their dignity and their rights, and their urgent wish to disclose the truth of their tragedy.” —Samar Yazbek How does one review a book of this sort?
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Samar Yazbek on Redefining Collective Memory

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By Samar Yazbek
| ArabLit
Interviews Olivia Snaije, Samar Yazbek In Conversation: Between Samar Yazbek and Olivia Snaije In 2024, the Syrian writer and journalist Samar Yazbek was preparing to go to Sudan. There, she intended to document the stories of women who had been raped and tortured by the paramilitary. But before she left, she went to Qatar to visit her daughter, who had been hospitalized after an accident.
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