Rania Mamoun

Jun 18, 2024 | wordswithoutborders.org | Yasmine Seale |Rania Mamoun |M. Lynx Qualey |Olivia Snaije

It’s a rare pleasure to be celebrating Marcia Lynx Qualey, to present her with the Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature, and to have the opportunity to say a few words about Marcia and the vital work she does. For as long as there’s been literature in Arabic, there have been poems of praise, known as madh, and on being asked to make these remarks today I was half-tempted to compose an ode to Marcia in that vein.