Samples

Below you will find links to samples of my work available online.

Translations from Arabic

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)

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)