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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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From the Archives: Walking Through Fire with Nawal El Saadawi

66 hours 48 mins; March 05, 2026

LOVE AND ITS DISCONTENTS

65 hours 37 mins; February 12, 2026

Not Yet Defeated

65 hours 59 mins; January 28, 2026

Listening to Voices with Hoda Barakat

51 mins; November 27, 2025

The Surprisingly Rich Arabic Literary Culture in 17th and 18th Century Southeast Asia

55 mins; November 02, 2025

Inji Efflatoun, An Egyptian Artist Who Traced Her Own Path

52 mins; September 25, 2025

Sonallah Ibrahim, The Egyptian Novelist Who Captured History

69 hours 38 mins; August 28, 2025

Mohamed Choukri's Brutal Honesty

83 hours 16 mins; June 26, 2025

A Young Poet in Gaza, Writing in the Shadow of Death

47 mins; May 22, 2025

Looking In the Mirror: Arab Women’s Memoirs with Khaled Mansour

58 mins; April 10, 2025

‘One Day,’ with Omar El Akkad

53 mins; March 06, 2025

Listening to Syria with Alia Malek

53 mins; February 06, 2025

Inside The World of Lebanese Comics with Rawand Issa

60 hours 31 mins; January 02, 2025

Give and Take

60 hours 40 mins; December 05, 2024

Arabic culture and literature in Spain

39 mins; November 07, 2024

Flash Fiction Winner Karima Ahdad

47 mins; October 17, 2024

Reem Bassiouney: Writing Historical Fiction is like “Stringing Pearls”

42 mins; October 03, 2024

Deena Mohamed’s Graphic Novel Asks: What If Your Wish Came True?

62 hours 35 mins; August 15, 2024

Etel Adnan: “I Write What I See, Paint What I Am”

67 hours 13 mins; July 03, 2024

This Moment

40 mins; May 01, 2024

Ghassan Kanafani: Defiance on Every Page

68 hours 4 mins; March 14, 2024

WITH GAZA

68 hours 37 mins; January 18, 2024

On Translating Arabic Literature with Robin Moger

53 mins; October 12, 2023

A Crime at the End of the Sahara

46 mins; September 14, 2023

Remembering Hamdi Abu Golayyel

79 hours 27 mins; July 13, 2023

Inside The World of Lebanese Comics with Rawand Issa

60 hours 31 mins; June 14, 2023

Sawad Hussain’s Translation Advice

58 mins; May 11, 2023

Looking Back From Iraq

56 mins; April 06, 2023

Love and its Discontents

67 hours 15 mins; March 02, 2023

Should You Turn Down That Literary Award?

58 mins; February 02, 2023

Getting Your Wish

62 hours 35 mins; December 01, 2022

Yasmin El-Rifae’s Radius

70 hours 53 mins; October 26, 2022

1001 Nights: A Never Ending Story

50 mins; September 30, 2022

End of Summer Reading

46 mins; September 15, 2022

The Interesting Case of a Saudi Novel

54 mins; August 24, 2022

Aftershocks

55 mins; August 11, 2022

The Book of Travels

62 hours 51 mins; July 21, 2022

Stories Just Sprout Inside You

43 mins; June 30, 2022

Poems from Palestine

58 mins; June 19, 2022

87+ Bonus: Book Quiz

3 mins; June 09, 2022

‘Kids Take Over!’: On Sonia Nimr’s Thunderbird

29 mins; June 02, 2022

86+ Bonus: Book Quiz

2 mins; May 25, 2022

‘Hot Maroc’: An Internet Troll Novel

58 mins; May 19, 2022

85+ Bonuz: Book Quiz

1 min; May 11, 2022

Of Human Bondage: Abdulrazak Gurnah’s ‘Paradise’

57 mins; April 27, 2022

84+ Bonus: Book Quiz

3 mins; April 20, 2022

Reading Life Backwards: Omani Novelist Jokha Alharthi

49 mins; April 13, 2022

83+Bonus: Book Quiz

2 mins; April 06, 2022

Mona Kareem on Translation as Kidnapping

67 hours 13 mins; March 30, 2022

82+Bonus: Book Quiz

2 mins; March 23, 2022

Stealing, Drug-dealing, & the Epic of Egyptian Migration

59 mins; March 16, 2022

81+ Bonus: Book Quiz

4 mins; March 09, 2022

Naguib Mahfouz's Banned Book

62 hours 14 mins; March 02, 2022

80+ Bonus: Book Quiz

4 mins; February 23, 2022

Just Different: Moroccan writer Malika Moustadraf

54 mins; February 16, 2022

Not Yet Defeated

67 hours 15 mins; February 02, 2022

We Read Ramallah

57 mins; January 19, 2022

Midnight in Cairo

65 hours 26 mins; January 05, 2022

A Thousand And One Dreams

54 mins; December 22, 2021

Best of 2021

69 hours 38 mins; December 09, 2021

The Book of Travels

62 hours 51 mins; November 25, 2021

So Kill Them Back!

63 hours 51 mins; November 10, 2021

Poems from Palestine

58 mins; October 28, 2021

Walking Through Fire: A Look Back at Nawal El Saadawi

65 hours 12 mins; October 13, 2021

Warda: Diary of a Revolutionary

67 hours 13 mins; October 03, 2021

Football Writing: The Passion and the Provocation

51 mins; September 16, 2021

What You May Have Missed

62 hours 45 mins; September 01, 2021

Iman Mersal: Books You Need To Read & Need to Write

63 hours 55 mins; August 11, 2021

Impostures: A Rogue’s Many Tales

63 hours 39 mins; July 14, 2021

Driss Chraibi’s Portrait of an Angry Young Man

56 mins; June 30, 2021

A Conversation in Cairo About Making Art Under Pressure

62 hours 53 mins; June 16, 2021

Work-Lit Balance

65 hours 18 mins; June 02, 2021

Karl Sharro Only Takes Soccer Seriously

72 hours 42 mins; May 19, 2021

The Interesting Case of a Saudi Novel

54 mins; May 06, 2021

Aftershocks

55 mins; April 21, 2021

Women In Love and In Lust

68 hours 19 mins; April 07, 2021

We Read Ramallah

56 mins; March 24, 2021

Reading and Writing Behind Bars

71 hours 12 mins; March 11, 2021

Midnight in Cairo

64 hours 46 mins; February 24, 2021

Sex & Second Chances

59 mins; February 10, 2021

Cairo Modern: The Unstable City

67 hours 48 mins; January 27, 2021

Getting Away With Murder

60 hours 45 mins; January 14, 2021

Kitchen Talk

61 hours 29 mins; December 30, 2020

A Thousand And One Dreams

53 mins; December 17, 2020

Paranormal

62 hours 34 mins; December 03, 2020

Book Club: Season of Migration to the North

64 hours 16 mins; November 18, 2020

Love and Silence: Rediscovering Enayat El Zayat

49 mins; November 05, 2020

The Pillar of Salt

60 hours 42 mins; October 21, 2020

Revolt Against the Sun

73 hours 46 mins; October 08, 2020

Trailer: Fall 2020 Season of BULAQ

56 secs; September 24, 2020

The Cat Is Out of The Bag

55 mins; September 24, 2020

Ten out of Ten

57 mins; September 11, 2020

Women in Translation: The Frightened Ones

37 mins; August 26, 2020

Women in Translation: Reporting While Arab and Female

40 mins; August 12, 2020

Talking Shit

52 mins; July 29, 2020

Murder, They Wrote

59 mins; July 16, 2020

Widows, Conmen and Crimes

58 mins; July 02, 2020

Tazmamart

56 mins; June 18, 2020

Kitchen Talk

60 hours 44 mins; June 04, 2020

Locked-In Lit

53 mins; May 21, 2020

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