Ursula Lindsey

Journalist and book reviewer. Regular contributor to @nybooks. Co-host @bulaqbooks podcast.

[Bulaq @bulaqbooks]

We talked with Algerian novelist Said Khatibi after he won the 2023 SZBA for his END OF THE SAHARA (out now in Alex Elinson's translation:
🎧https://t.co/4x5WL7t3Aa

🎉Today, Khatibi won the 2026 International Prize for Arabic Fiction for his I RESIST THE RIVER'S COURSE.

[Bulaq @bulaqbooks]

THE KEY is a new online publication dedicated to covering Palestine as “the core issue at the heart of the modern world.” In this episode, we’re joined by its editor-in-chief, Sara Yasin, former managing editor of the LA Times:

https://t.co/u4Y4lNX6UC

[The Markaz Review is @markaz-review.bsky.social @TheMarkazReview]

🍉 TMR 57 • PALESTINE is live!

If Palestine is to be free and a land for all its inhabitants, it seems to us that it must remain the cause of our lifetimes, however protracted, however difficult, however insurmountable it may seem.

Featuring work by: Jordan Elgrably (@JordanElgrably), Mariam Mushtaha, Esraa Abo Qamar, Gabriel Polley (@gabriel_polley), Mark LeVine (@culturejamming), Sholeh Wolpé (@Sholeh_Wolpe), Jim Quilty (@quiltyjim), Rebecca Ruth Gould (@rrgould), Bulaq (@bulaqbooks), Omar El Akkad (@omarelakkad), A Mom from Bethlehem, Sheryl Ono (@nosheryl), Raja Shehadeh, Sahar Mustafah, Rana Asfour (@bookfabulous), Arie Amaya-Akkermans (@byzantinologue )

🔗 Read the new issue now: https://t.co/2RhLYAcwhh

#TheMarkazReview #TMR57 #Palestine #SWANAlit #MiddleEastArts #NewIssue #Fiction #Essays #Poetry #Art

[عمو حسام @3arabawy]

On the anniversary of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, I discuss its legacy and the impetus for my forthcoming book, Counterrevolution in Egypt. @VersoBooks
https://t.co/LOcY2KXHaO

[Bulaq @bulaqbooks]

If you want more Hoda Barakat, don't miss our most recent episode, as well as the extended conversation on ArabLit: https://t.co/N12P7oEHYZ

[Ursula Lindsey @ursulind]

On how her books start with questions and with the irrepressible voices of characters; and how living in Paris, while remaining deeply connected to Lebanon, gives her a distance that allows her to be critical, independent, "even more radical."

[Ursula Lindsey @ursulind]

"In each of my novels, there are people who are unbalanced, who are lost, who don’t have the strength to struggle against fate." Had the great pleasure of talking to the Lebanese author Hoda Barakat earlier this Fall.

[Bulaq @bulaqbooks]

🎧Don't miss this episode, with the great Hoda Barakat.
https://t.co/ZnRHdypXHu

[Ursula Lindsey @ursulind]

Hjorth's writing may be the Scandinavian auto-fiction you haven't heard of/read yet. It's amazing. Discussed in this review: a book about loving, determinedly and disastrously, an awful man; about holding a secret that will blow your family apart; about stalking your mother.

[The New York Review of Books @nybooks]

Ursula Lindsey (@ursulind) on buried memories and unspeakable facts in Vigdis Hjorth’s novels https://t.co/sanNJFVUwC

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Several years back, a Norwegian friend in a book club introduced me to Hjorth's work. I was blown away, as was everyone else in our group. I've been reading and recommending her ever since, and I've finally written a review.

[The New York Review of Books @nybooks]

Ursula Lindsey (@ursulind) on buried memories and unspeakable facts in Vigdis Hjorth’s novels https://t.co/sanNJFVUwC

[Bulaq @bulaqbooks]

🎧WEEKEND LISTENING: Inji Efflatoun, An Egyptian Artist Who Traced Her Own Path.

W/Ahmed Gobba and Avery Gonzales, co-translators of Efflatoun’s 1993 memoir, “The Memoir of Inji Efflatoun: From Childhood to Prison.”

Listen now: https://t.co/FmUkDVszAe

[Bulaq @bulaqbooks]

🎧NEW ON BULAQ: Inji Efflatoun, An Egyptian Artist Who Traced Her Own Path.

With Ahmed Gobba and Avery Gonzales, co-translators of Efflatoun’s 1993 memoir, “The Memoir of Inji Efflatoun: From Childhood to Prison.”

Listen now: https://t.co/FmUkDVszAe

[ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social @arablit]

To celebrate the release of Alaa Abd el-Fattah from prison, Fitzcarraldo is making the ebook of YOU HAVE NOT YET BEEN DEFEATED, tr. an anon collective, available to download for free for the next week via all ebook platforms, including Kindle and Apple Books, until 30 September.

[Ursula Lindsey @ursulind]

Finally! All the love and respect in the world to Alaa and his family

[Free Alaa @FreedomForAlaa]

Home.

[Free Alaa @FreedomForAlaa]

Home.

[Bulaq @bulaqbooks]

🎙️A new look at this past episode: on Sonallah Ibrahim (1937-2025) and two of his great novels, WARDA and STEALTH, both tr. Hosam Aboul-ela.

Listen now, wherever you find your podcasts:
https://t.co/Msidnjjgh0

[Ursula Lindsey @ursulind]

Warda is an exploration of forgotten history, leftist engagement, and female liberation. https://t.co/Fr7jFQ2QUu

[Ursula Lindsey @ursulind]

I wrote a little something about Sonallah Ibrahim, who was one of Egypt's most talented and original writers and an intellectual of rare principle and honesty. He died August 13. https://t.co/H3iinsLtRV

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At @bulaqbooks we are re-running an episode in which we talk about Ibrahim and his novel Warda, in which he imagined an Egyptian female freedom fighter who joins the Dhofar rebellion in Yemen in the 1960s.

[Jonas Elbousty @JElbousty]

I'm deeply grateful to @MarciaLynx and @ursulind for the important work they've been doing over the years. I recently had the pleasure of being featured on their excellent podcast, @bulaqbooks, where we discussed the life and works of Mohamed Choukri. The conversation flew by, and there is so much more to say. I look forward to future conversations.
#LiteraturePosts #translation #fiction #literarytranslation #shortstories #novels

[Ursula Lindsey @ursulind]

Read this: https://t.co/LdWAa4aC3c