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Home > Translation > The World Bookshelf > Books > Writing Revolution: The Voices from Tunis to Damascus

Writing Revolution: The Voices from Tunis to Damascus

From Cairo to Damascus and from Tunisia to Bahrain, Layla Al-Zubaidi and Matthew Cassel have brought together some of the most exciting new writing born out of revolution in the Arab world. This is a remarkable collection of testimony, entirely composed by participants in, and witnesses to, the profound changes shaking their region. Situated between past, present and future – in a space where the personal and the political collide – these voices are part of an ongoing process, one that is at once hopeful and heartbreaking. Unique amongst material emanating from and about the convulsions in the Arab Middle East, these creative and original writers speak of history, determination and struggle, as well as of political and poetic engagement with questions of identity and activism. This book gives a moving and inspiring insight into the Arab revolutions and uprisings: why they are happening and what might come next.

‘[A] fascinating anthology of essays… authored by those who experienced first hand the recent revolutions. The contributors have all played a part in documenting and witnessing injustice in their countries.’
Independent

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Matthew Cassel

Matthew Cassel

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Writing Revolution: The Voices from Tunis to Damascus

Matthew Cassel is a journalist and photographer who has reported on the Middle East for Al Jazeera English. Cassel first learned about the region through his human rights and media work in Palestinian refugee camps. Over the past decade he has worked in the occupied Palestinian territories, Lebanon, Egypt, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Bahrain and elsewhere. Formerly assistant editor of the The Electronic Intifada online journal, he is connected to activists, journalists, writers, artists and others at the forefront of the movement for change in the region.

Layla Al-Zubaidi

Layla Al-Zubaidi

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Writing Revolution: The Voices from Tunis to Damascus

Layla Al-Zubaidi is Director of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in South Africa, and was previously based in Beirut and Ramallah. She has published on cultural resistance and freedom of expression, and is co-editor of Democratic Transition in the Middle East: Unmaking Power (Routledge, 2012). She has also been on the Executive Committee of Freemuse — World Forum on Music and Censorship.

Nemonie Craven Roderick

Nemonie Craven Roderick

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Writing Revolution: The Voices from Tunis to Damascus

Nemonie Craven Roderick is a literary agent. She has contributed to Sight & Sound, Roads & Kingdoms and The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory, amongst other publications.

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Robin Moger

Robin Moger

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Writing Revolution: The Voices from Tunis to Damascus

Robin Moger is an Arabic translator currently living in Cape Town, South Africa. From 2001 to 2007 he lived in Egypt, where he worked variously as a journalist, translator and interpreter. He has translated the novels A Dog With No Tail by Hamdi Abu Gollayel (2009) and Vertigo by Ahmed Mourad (2011), and is a regular contributor to Banipal.

Georgina Collins

Georgina Collins

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Writing Revolution: The Voices from Tunis to Damascus

Georgina Collins is a Lecturer in Translation Studies at the University of Glasgow. She researches the translation of Francophone postcolonial literature and also works as a freelance translator. Georgina also published the first anthology of Francophone African women’s poetry, The Other Half of History, featuring her own translations into English.

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IB Tauris, 2013
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From Cairo to Damascus and from Tunisia to Bahrain, Layla Al-Zubaidi and Matthew Cassel have brought together some of the most exciting new writing born out of revolution in the Arab world. This is a remarkable collection of testimony, entirely composed by participants in, and witnesses to, the profound changes shaking their region. Situated between past, present and future – in a space where the personal and the political collide – these voices are part of an ongoing process, one that is at once hopeful and heartbreaking. Unique amongst material emanating from and about the convulsions in the Arab Middle East, these creative and original writers speak of history, determination and struggle, as well as of political and poetic engagement with questions of identity and activism. This book gives a moving and inspiring insight into the Arab revolutions and uprisings: why they are happening and what might come next.

‘[A] fascinating anthology of essays… authored by those who experienced first hand the recent revolutions. The contributors have all played a part in documenting and witnessing injustice in their countries.’
Independent

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