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Episode: Mona Kareem on Translation as Kidnapping
Description: Mona Kareem's essay âWestern Poets Kidnap Your Poems and Call Them Translationsâ 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 KareemWestern 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 Kuw...