Samples

Below are links to online samples of my work.

Translations from Arabic

Rania Mamoun, ‘Bird of Paradise‘ (Literary Hub, March 2018, from Banthology, published by Comma Press UK and Deep Vellum USA)
Abbad Yahya, Crime in Ramallah (Words Without Borders, Divided Countries issue, July 2017)
Extract from The Crossing: My Journey to the Shattered Heart of Syria by Samar Yazbek (extract here in The Guardian; published by Rider Books, Penguin Random House, 2015; translated with Nashwa Gowanlock)
Minouche, a short story by Anis Arafai (The Common, 2016)
The turmoil of today’s world: leading writers respond to the refugee crisis. Contribution by Samar Yazbek (The Guardian, 2015)
Extract from The Amman Bride by Fadi Zaghmout (here in Words Without Borders, subsequently published as The Bride of Amman by Signal 8 Press, 2015)
Book review in The New Arab: Edward Said: The late author was just in time by Ziad Abdullah (2015)
Two scenes from Will it Pass or Not? – a play by Lucien Bourjeilly (Index on Censorship, 2014)
The novelist vs. the revolutionary: my own Syrian debate by Samar Yazbak (The Washington Post, 2013)
I write with blind eyes and forty fingers by Samar Yazbek (Index on Censorship, 2013)

How nature can help you predict the weather – an extract of The Weather Detective, by Peter Wohlleben, in BBC Focus Magazine
The Not-so-secret Life of the Stars – an extract of The Weather Detective, by Peter Wohlleben, on LitHub.com
How to tell the time using the sun – an extract of The Weather Detective, by Peter Wohlleben, on the Penguin Random House website
Excerpt from Farewell to the Horse, by Ulrich Raulff, on LitHub.com
Farewell to the Horse – Book of the Week, Radio 4, broadcast from 29 May 2017 (read by Iain Glen, abridged and produced by Jill Waters)
First 5 pages of Sacrifice, a crime thriller by Hanna Winter (Manilla/Bonnier Zaffre, 2016)
Essay ‘The New Divide: Why the world didn’t get better‘ by Thomas Rothschild (Index on Censorship, 2014)
‘Should Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” be republished?’ a debate between Sascha Feuchert and Charlotte Knobloch (Index on Censorship, 2014)
Extract from The Thankless Stranger, by Irena Brežná (New Books in German, 2012)