Yasmine Seale

2 weeks ago | nybooks.com | Yasmine Seale |Yassin al-Haj Saleh

1. My darling Sammour,After years of silence, I began writing you a letter last October. I gave it the title “Guardian of Hope,” since your absence is bound up with my sense of hope, both personal and public, slowly eroding for the last eleven years. But I stopped after a few lines, for there was nothing I could tell you about the situation. You are the situation. What could someone who has no part in your absence tell you about yourself?

Nov 8, 2024 | 4columns.org | Yasmine Seale

Forest of Noise Yasmine Seale In Palestinian writer Mosab Abu Toha’s second collection of poetry, a split sensibility of whimsy and agony, wonder and torment.

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.

Jun 12, 2024 | wordswithoutborders.org | M. Lynx Qualey |Yasmine Seale |Sonia Nimr |Nina Perrotta

Thank you to Yasmine, who is a superstar in the firmament of Arabic-English literary translation and whose talent and finesse will continue to bring new communities of readers to Arabic literature in translation. And thank you of course to everyone at Words Without Borders, which is one of those few broad-based literary institutions in the US that has remained light in spirit, not fixed in place, but listening to its authors, its translators, its educators, and its readers.

Dec 1, 2023 | 4columns.org | Yasmine Seale

Partisans of the Nude Yasmine Seale An exhibition of work by modern Arab artists whose unclothed subjects reveal an expansive range of traditions and subversions. Partisans of the Nude: An Arab Art Genre in an Era of Contest, 1920–1960, installation view. Courtesy Wallach Art Gallery. Photo: Olympia Shannon.