About the podcast
BULAQ is a book-centric podcast co-hosted by Ursula Lindsey (in Amman, Jordan) and M Lynx Qualey (in Rabat, Morocco). It focuses on Arabic literature in translation and is named after the first printing press established in Egypt in 1820. Produced by Sowt.
Episodes
It’s literary prize season! When the Sawiris Cultural Awards were announced at the start of 2023, novelist Shady Lewis…
We wandered through Arabic poetry and prose to talk about many different forms of literary love: regretful love,…
Twenty years after the disastrous and mendacious US invasion of Iraq, we take a look at writing from Iraq: memoirs,…
Translator Sawad Hussain joins us to talk about the challenges of making a living as a translator, the art of...
Comics artist Rawand Issa joins us to talk about her book Inside the Giant Fish (trans. Amy Chiniara, Maamoul Press);…
Egyptian novelist Hamdi Abu Golayyel died last month at the age of 56. In this episode, we remember Hamdi and...
Said Khatibi’s detective novel نهاية الصحراء (End of the Sahara) is set in a remote desert city in Algeria in...
We talk to Robin Moger about how he became a translator from Arabic and about what has changed in recent...
This episode features writing from and about Gaza, and explores the imperative to write, between hope and hopelessness,…