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Literature from the global south & diasporas.
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#ReadPalestineWeek begins today! We’ve made #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar ebook free for download
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Please read Palestinian poems out loud, in public, & in community…& visit publishersforpalestine.org for full list of free / fund-raising books for Gaza.
Read, Resist, Rise Up: Read Palestine Week Nov 29-Dec 5 Make Reading & Learning about Palestine an act of solidarity. Nov 29-Dec 5. 2025
November 29, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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from last Friday’s fabulous book launch for #TamilTerrains in Toronto.

Big thanks to editors Nedra & Geetha, and emerging poet-translators Abi, Subhanya & Gobiga. & an audience that received this work with such thoughtful questions & poignant comments.
Five Toronto-based Tamil translator-poets reading at book launch for trace press’s anthology TAMIL TERRAINS anthology. L-R: Abi Jeyaratnam, Nedra Rodrigo, Geetha Sukumarsn, Subhanya Sivajothy, & Gobiga Nada.
November 12, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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If in #Toronto, go check out
@anotherstoryto.bsky.social’s wonderful display of Canadian small press books!

We were thrilled to see our new book #TamilTerrains side by side with #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar from our trace: translating [x] series

#booksky
#bookstore
Photo of Another Story Bookshop display of trace press books : Arabic, between Love and War, & Tamil Terrains.
November 2, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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#Toronto has the world’s largest #Tamil diaspora. & also some fabulous bilingual poets & translators. Come join us to celebrate the launch of #TamilTerrains Friday. Nov 7th
7-9 pm
Friends House
Grey & yellow background with book cover with BW photo of boats. (c) trace press, Tamil Terrains 2025.
October 29, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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🔸🌊 Arrived! The books are beautiful!!!

Will start mailing out to all who have pre-ordered —please be patient with Canada Post delays.
3 boxes of trace press books- TAMIL TERRAINS Opened box of trace press books— TAMIL TERRAINS. (Bw Image on boats with title & Tamil text above)
October 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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TAMIL TERRAINS
SUNDAY: Oct 19
11 am- 1 pm EST
(online)

🔸join us to celebrate this beautiful, thought-provoking book!

🔸register:
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🔸15% pre-order discount (>Oct 31) tracepress.org
Yellow background / trace logo/ book cover for TAMIL TERRAINS with boats & Tamil phrase. Sunday Oct 19. 11 am-1pm EST
October 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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🔸Please support this beautiful project by pre-ordering a copy of #TamilTerrains
🔸join us on Sunday, Oct 19: 11am-1pm EST—
for a global online reading.
(details nxt week)
Yellow background with BW book cover with boats for TAMIL TERRAINs. (trace press 2025).
October 12, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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What does it mean to write or translate from an antiracist, feminist, queer, & decolonial lens?

These are questions we explore in all our books at trace —where every day is #InternationalTranslationDay

#riverinanocean
#ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar
#TamilTerrains
2 books from trace press on a red moroccan carpet. River in an Ocean & Arabic, between Love and War.
September 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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& this, for her in Toronto, though this place could not provide her with safety from sorrow.
Mural of activist Sarah Hegazi, Church St- Toronto. Young brown-skinned woman with rainbow flag
September 24, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Some responses to US event, from Trinidad to Uganda, shows how far & deep US evangelical networks run.

Time to re-read Iryn Tushabe’s brilliant memoir-essay “Saved” on colonialism, religion & language in Uganda in #riverinanocean
(essays on translation)

#TranslationMonth
Book with off white background & title, River in an Ocean: essays on translation. With blue image by Pakistani artist Lala Rukh of moonlit river on an ocean & names of all contributors. Edited by Nuzhat Abbas
September 12, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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🌹Thinking of you, dear readers, as we unpack 2nd print run of #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar 🌹

Read the poems alone, in groups & in public.

Please order from our website & local bookstores in Canada & US. We also have a European distributor so email us to ask.
Box with multiplr copies of bilingual poetry book ARABIC, BETWEEN LOVE AND WAR. Cover has calligraphic text in Arabic + book title in English
September 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Beautiful #review of #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar

“This collection of poems travelling …between English & Arabic, here & there, the future & the past, are like Fadwa Tuqan’s wish ‘to rid this planet of the nightmare of war,’ a wish to save our dreams from being lost in translation.”

(Herizons, 39:2)
‘Clipping’ from Herizon magazine’s Summer 2025 issue with Ghinwa Yassine’s review of ARABIC, BETWEEN LOVE AND WAR (trace press)
July 28, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Looking back to the June 2023 launch of #riverinanocean & forward to our beautiful 2025-2026 books…
@alllitupcanada.bsky.social invited us to tell trace’s publishing story.
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Photo : book launch of trace press’ anthology RIVER IN AN OCEAN: ESSAYS ON TRANSLATION at UT-Innis College, June 8, 2023. Authors from L-R: Suneela Mubayi, Otoniya Okot Bitek, Geetha Sukumaran, Nedra Rodrigo & Norah Alkharashi.
July 1, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Celebrate the art, politics & labour of feminist, decolonial publishing & translation with 20% off our books #riverinanocean &
#ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar

Visit tracepress.org & use discount code at checkout:
ReadTheWorld

#ReadTheWorld
ALTA : May 12-27
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Red Moroccan kilim with 2 trace press books: River in an Ocean & Arabic, between Love and War
May 14, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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🌱 FRIDAY
May 16- 8 pm
Molasses Books
(brooklyn)

Please join @mayadamayadamay.bsky.social & Miled Faiza reading poems / translations from #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar with Laura al-Tibi & Amr Amer
trace press & molasses bkstore May 16 event Poster with green background, book cover & event details.
May 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Amazing books (+ a book bundle from trace). Come join this writer-led fundraising book auction for esims for Gaza.

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#ConnectingGaza
Poster for author led auction of books to support Crips for eSims for Gaza. - to May 18.
May 9, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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💓 buy/order #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar from your local independent bookseller. In Canada: We 💓
@anotherstoryto.bsky.social ; Type, dandq.bsky.social (Canada) & in US, urge you to support @workshops4gaza.bsky.social with their list at fabulous @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social #IndependentBookstoreDay
6 books on a bookstore table: including : (poetry) Arabic, between Love & War, & 2 non-fiction: Recognizing the Stranger & One Day Everyone Will Always Have Been Against This.
April 26, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Picked up a copy of our favourite Toronto alternative newspaper @thegrindto.bsky.social
— celebrating #poetrymonth with Aisha Sasha John on cover & brilliant recommendations from Type Junction booksellers—
Thank you to Jess for lovely write up on #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar.
The Grind (Toronto newspaper) with Black experimental poet Aisha Sasha John on cover New clipping: The Grind April 2025. Type Junction bookseller recommendations - Jess writing on Arabic, Between Love and War.
April 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Visit arablit.org to read her poems (tr. Batool Abu Akleen) & to share responses.
Visit arablit.org to share response to Fatima Hassouna’s work
April 24, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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Eman Abukhadra at the Arabic-Canadian Book Fair on Sunday, reading from her translations of Tuqan, Nasrallah & her own poem.
In conversation with Gitanjali from @anotherstoryto.bsky.social

#ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar.
Eman Abukhadra, reading her translations from ARABIC, BETWEEN LOVE AND WAR at the Arabic-Canadian Book Fair in Mississauga on Sunday. April 20, 2025. With Gitanjali from Another Story Bookshop.
April 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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« to wait and wait… »
from @lenakt.bsky.social ‘s stunning poem « Water and Salt » translated here, into Arabic, by Mariam Naji
(in our bilingual collection ARABIC, BETWEEN LOVE AND WAR)
Excerpt from Lena Khalaf Tuffaha’s poem Water & Salt, translated into Arabic by Mariam Naji. In ARABIC, BETWEEN LOVE AND WAR (trace press, 2025)
April 15, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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A day to read Eman Abukhadra’s dual language poem for #AhmedManasra, who’s finally been released from prison. She wrote it upon witnessing his mother’s anguish & abiding love for her child.
#ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar
Excerpt from Eman Abukhadra’s poem “Captive Dove” in ARABIC, BETWEEN LOVE AND WAR (trace press, 2024) Cover of ARABIC, BETWEEN LOVE AND WAR (trace press, 2025)
April 10, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Eid ul Fitr, & #womenshistorymonth is coming to an end while suffering in #Palestine continues.

Here, we share an excerpt from Eman Abu Khadra’s translation of “This Earthly Planet” by the late Palestinian poet Fadwa Tuqan in our #bilingual #poetry collection ARABIC, BETWEEN LOVE AND WAR.
“This Earthly Planet” by Fadwa Tuqan, translated by Eman Abukhadra, in ARABIC, BETWEEN LOVE AND WAR (trace, 2024) Short biography of Fadwa Tuqan, a Palestinian poet (from ARABIC, BETWEEN LOVE AND WAR (trace, 2024) Front and back cover of the book ARABIC, BETWEEN LOVE AND WAR
March 31, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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& this, from “The Green Light,” written by Gaza-born poet & revolutionary Kamal Nasser in the 70s (tr.Rana Issa) #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar
#Gaza
#Palestinian
Excerpt from Kamal Nasser’s poem “The Green Light” (tr. Rana Issa) in ARABIC, BETWEEN LOVE AND WAR
March 19, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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today, re-reading Nour Balousha’s searing poem “Feet Unable to Arrive” (tr. Nashwa Nasreldine) — to hold this unending grief
Excerpt from Nour Balousha’s poem “Feet Unable to Arrive” (tr. Nashwa Nasreldine) in ARABIC, BETWEEN LOVE AND WAR (trace press 2024) Front and Back cover of ARABIC, BETWEEN LOVE AND WAR (trace press, 2024)
March 19, 2025 at 2:38 AM