Below you will find links to samples of my work available online.
Translations from Arabic
- 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)
Translations from German
- 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)
