short stories | Translating Women

“A city haunted by many ghosts”: The Book of Cairo

Posted on 10th Jun, 2019 by Helen Vassallo

Edited and with an introduction by Raph Cormack (Comma Press, 2019) This is the first of Comma Press’s “Reading the City” books I’ve read, and I was drawn to The Book of Cairo for primarily personal reasons: Egypt is my… Continue Reading →

Stories of intimacy and alienation: Rania Mamoun, Thirteen Months of Sunrise

Posted on 1st May, 2019 by Helen Vassallo

Translated from the Arabic by Elisabeth Jaquette (Comma Press, 2019) It’s no secret that I’ve been excited about Thirteen Months of Sunrise, the first major translation into English of a Sudanese woman writer. Rania Mamoun’s writing has a cultural specificity that… Continue Reading →