Mona Kareem's essay “Western Poets Kidnap Your Poems and Call Them Translations” lit up debates among translators and poets. In this episode Kareem talks about poetry, the power dynamics of translation, and the relationship of both to migration, exile, self-censorship, and publication. She also reads from her poetry, both in her own translation and in translation by poet @SaraFarag. Essays by Mona Kareem Western Poets Kidnap Your Poems and Call Them Translations  Bidoon: A Cause and Its Literature Are Born   Mapping Exile: A Writer's Story of Growing Up Stateless in Post-Gulf War Kuwait Self-translation Never Lands Poetry by Mona Kareem Eleven poems on Poetry International  Three poems in The Brooklyn Rail More at Mona's website, monakareem.blogspot.com/search/label/Poetry Ahmed Naji's essay Taming the Immigrant: Musings of a Writer in Exile  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.