Samia Mehrez (Author)  is professor emerita of Arabic literature in the Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations and founder of the Center for Translation Studies at the American University in Cairo (2009–2021). She is the author of Egyptian Writers between History and Fiction (AUC Press, 1994) and Egypt’s Culture Wars (2008), and the editor of The Literary Atlas of Cairo, The Literary Life of Cairo, and Translating Egypt’s Revolution: The Language of Tahrir (AUC Press, 2010, 2011, 2012).

Joy Amina Garnett is an artist and writer in Los Angeles. Her forthcoming memoir, The Bee Kingdom, charts her life-long search for her late maternal grandfather Ahmed Zaky Abushady (1892-1955), a central figure of 20th century Egyptian romantic poetry.

Marcia Lynx Qualey is the founding editor of ArabLit and ArabLit Quarterly and co-host of the BULAQ podcast. She is the translator of Sonia Nimr’s time-traveling Thunderbird trilogy and Haya Saleh’s YA novel Wild Poppies.

Archive of previous talks:

https://joygarnett.net/documentary-videos