BULAQ | بولاق
BULAQ is a book-centric podcast co-hosted by Ursula Lindsey (in Amman, Jordan) and M Lynx Qualey (in Rabat, Morocco). It focuses on Arabic literature in translation and is named after the first printing press established in Egypt in 1820. Produced by Sowt.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Podcasts
On Translating Arabic Literature with Robin Moger
Published: Oct. 12, 2023, 10:26 a.m.Duration: 53 minutes 14 seconds
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A Crime at the End of the Sahara
Published: Sept. 14, 2023, 7:17 a.m.Duration: 46 minutes 54 seconds
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Remembering Hamdi Abu Golayyel
Published: July 13, 2023, 7:06 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 27 seconds
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Inside The World of Lebanese Comics with Rawand Issa
Published: June 15, 2023, 12:17 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 31 seconds
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Sawad Hussains Translation Advice
Published: May 11, 2023, 8:44 a.m.Duration: 58 minutes 6 seconds
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Looking Back From Iraq
Published: April 6, 2023, 9:19 a.m.Duration: 56 minutes 35 seconds
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Love and its Discontents
Published: March 2, 2023, 8:43 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 15 seconds
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Should You Turn Down That Literary Award?
Published: Feb. 2, 2023, 12:37 p.m.Duration: 58 minutes 28 seconds
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Getting Your Wish
Published: Dec. 1, 2022, 7:03 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 35 seconds
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Yasmin El-Rifaes Radius
Published: Oct. 27, 2022, 1 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 53 seconds
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1001 Nights: A Never Ending Story
Published: Sept. 30, 2022, 8:28 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 15 seconds
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End of Summer Reading
Published: Sept. 15, 2022, 8:19 a.m.Duration: 46 minutes 20 seconds
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Stories Just Sprout Inside You
Published: June 30, 2022, 9:24 a.m.Duration: 43 minutes 53 seconds
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87+ Bonus: Book Quiz
Published: June 9, 2022, 9:36 a.m.Duration: 3 minutes 12 seconds
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Kids Take Over!: On Sonia Nimrs Thunderbird
Published: June 2, 2022, 11:13 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes 53 seconds
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Hot Maroc: An Internet Troll Novel
Published: May 19, 2022, 8:20 a.m.Duration: 58 minutes 22 seconds
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Of Human Bondage: Abdulrazak Gurnahs Paradise
Published: April 28, 2022, 1:04 a.m.Duration: 57 minutes 11 seconds
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84+ Bonus: Book Quiz
Published: April 21, 2022, 1 a.m.Duration: 3 minutes 10 seconds
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Reading Life Backwards: Omani Novelist Jokha Alharthi
Published: April 14, 2022, 1 a.m.Duration: 49 minutes 11 seconds
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Mona Kareem on Translation as Kidnapping
Published: March 31, 2022, 1 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 13 seconds
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82+Bonus: Book Quiz
Published: March 24, 2022, 1 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 27 seconds
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Stealing, Drug-dealing, & the Epic of Egyptian Migration
Published: March 17, 2022, 1 a.m.Duration: 59 minutes 11 seconds
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81+ Bonus: Book Quiz
Published: March 10, 2022, 1 a.m.Duration: 4 minutes 15 seconds
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Naguib Mahfouz's Banned Book
Published: March 3, 2022, 1 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 14 seconds
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80+ Bonus: Book Quiz
Published: Feb. 24, 2022, 1 a.m.Duration: 4 minutes 33 seconds
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Just Different: Moroccan writer Malika Moustadraf
Published: Feb. 17, 2022, 1 a.m.Duration: 54 minutes 30 seconds
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Not Yet Defeated
Published: Feb. 3, 2022, 1 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 15 seconds
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Best of 2021
Published: Dec. 9, 2021, 11:52 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 38 seconds
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The Book of Travels
Published: Nov. 25, 2021, 7:43 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 51 seconds
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So Kill Them Back!
Published: Nov. 11, 2021, 1 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 51 seconds
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Poems from Palestine
Published: Oct. 28, 2021, 9:20 a.m.Duration: 58 minutes 41 seconds
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Walking Through Fire: A Look Back at Nawal El Saadawi
Published: Oct. 14, 2021, 1 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 12 seconds
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Warda: Diary of a Revolutionary
Published: Oct. 3, 2021, 7:32 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 13 seconds
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Football Writing: The Passion and the Provocation
Published: Sept. 16, 2021, 9:52 a.m.Duration: 51 minutes 36 seconds
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What You May Have Missed
Published: Sept. 2, 2021, 1 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 45 seconds
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Iman Mersal: Books You Need To Read & Need to Write
Published: Aug. 12, 2021, 1 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 55 seconds
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Impostures: A Rogues Many Tales
Published: July 15, 2021, 1 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 39 seconds
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Driss Chraibis Portrait of an Angry Young Man
Published: July 1, 2021, 1 a.m.Duration: 56 minutes 42 seconds
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A Conversation in Cairo About Making Art Under Pressure
Published: June 17, 2021, 1 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 53 seconds
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Karl Sharro Only Takes Soccer Seriously
Published: May 20, 2021, 1 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 42 seconds
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The Interesting Case of a Saudi Novel
Published: May 6, 2021, 8:52 a.m.Duration: 54 minutes 15 seconds
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Women In Love and In Lust
Published: April 8, 2021, 1 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 19 seconds
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Reading and Writing Behind Bars
Published: March 11, 2021, 8:54 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 12 seconds
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Midnight in Cairo
Published: Feb. 24, 2021, 10 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 46 seconds
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Sex & Second Chances
Published: Feb. 10, 2021, 10 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 48 seconds
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Cairo Modern: The Unstable City
Published: Jan. 27, 2021, 10 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 48 seconds
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Getting Away With Murder
Published: Jan. 14, 2021, 11:11 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 45 seconds
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A Thousand And One Dreams
Published: Dec. 17, 2020, 1:04 p.m.Duration: 53 minutes 38 seconds
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Book Club: Season of Migration to the North
Published: Nov. 18, 2020, 10 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 16 seconds
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Love and Silence: Rediscovering Enayat El Zayat
Published: Nov. 5, 2020, 7:31 a.m.Duration: 49 minutes 16 seconds
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Revolt Against the Sun
Published: Oct. 8, 2020, 10:11 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 46 seconds
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Trailer: Fall 2020 Season of BULAQ
Published: Sept. 24, 2020, 1:48 p.m.Duration: 56 seconds
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The Cat Is Out of The Bag
Published: Sept. 24, 2020, 12:28 p.m.Duration: 55 minutes
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Women in Translation: The Frightened Ones
Published: Aug. 26, 2020, 9 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes 3 seconds
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Women in Translation: Reporting While Arab and Female
Published: Aug. 12, 2020, 9 p.m.Duration: 40 minutes 10 seconds
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Murder, They Wrote
Published: July 16, 2020, 7:01 a.m.Duration: 59 minutes 54 seconds
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Widows, Conmen and Crimes
Published: July 2, 2020, 12:49 p.m.Duration: 58 minutes 43 seconds
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A Woman Shaped by Fear
Published: March 26, 2020, 3:17 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes 53 seconds
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The Shape of Cairo
Published: March 11, 2020, 10 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 59 seconds
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Little Magazines
Published: Feb. 27, 2020, 10:46 a.m.Duration: 54 minutes 39 seconds
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The Not So Simple Past
Published: Feb. 11, 2020, 10 p.m.Duration: 56 minutes 6 seconds
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The Elephant Is The Room
Published: Jan. 29, 2020, 9:44 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 25 seconds
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The Revolution While Dreaming
Published: Dec. 4, 2019, 5:16 p.m.Duration: 56 minutes 28 seconds
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Writers Are Not Magic
Published: Nov. 20, 2019, 3:04 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 8 seconds
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"Insufficiently Westernized"
Published: Nov. 6, 2019, 4 p.m.Duration: 58 minutes 45 seconds
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Disappearing Palestinians
Published: Oct. 23, 2019, 1:05 p.m.Duration: 54 minutes 8 seconds
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Trash Talk
Published: July 20, 2019, 9:02 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 47 seconds
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Our Women on the Ground
Published: June 10, 2019, 3:18 p.m.Duration: 49 minutes 32 seconds
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Work-lit Balance
Published: May 19, 2019, 9:55 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 44 seconds
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This Takes the Prize
Published: May 6, 2019, 5:02 p.m.Duration: 58 minutes 24 seconds
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The case of Alaa al-Aswany
Published: April 7, 2019, 9:39 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 47 seconds
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Not Quite On The Same Page
Published: March 17, 2019, 9:03 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 50 seconds
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Sentenced to Hope
Published: March 1, 2019, 9:11 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 35 seconds
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Where Do I Start?
Published: Feb. 11, 2019, 4:47 p.m.Duration: 56 minutes 15 seconds
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Writing To Remember
Published: Dec. 1, 2018, 6:24 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 37 seconds
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Poems That Cross Language and Time
Published: Nov. 17, 2018, 7:53 p.m.Duration: 55 minutes 8 seconds
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Returns And Beginnings
Published: Nov. 4, 2018, 9:43 p.m.Duration: 49 minutes 48 seconds
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Interview with Ganzeer
Published: Oct. 20, 2018, 9:24 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 17 seconds
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Stolen in Translation
Published: Sept. 23, 2018, 9:53 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes 59 seconds
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Back To School
Published: Sept. 9, 2018, 5:32 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 46 seconds
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Is It a Beach Book?
Published: July 14, 2018, 7:54 a.m.Duration: 56 minutes 56 seconds
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"Neo-Assyrian Trolls"
Published: July 1, 2018, 4:22 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 10 seconds
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Pick Your Team
Published: June 16, 2018, 6:45 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 36 seconds
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Alexandria When?
Published: June 1, 2018, 8:31 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 23 seconds
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Less Cute and Safe
Published: May 18, 2018, 4:46 p.m.Duration: 53 minutes 56 seconds
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Cancel Everything
Published: May 6, 2018, 10:28 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 16 seconds
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All Over The Map
Published: April 23, 2018, 12:51 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 7 seconds
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Stillborn in Egypt, Fractured in Palestine
Published: March 31, 2018, 9:45 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 50 seconds
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Noir Is The New Black
Published: March 18, 2018, 1:51 p.m.Duration: 56 minutes 15 seconds
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On Good Bad Reviews
Published: March 3, 2018, 10:25 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 43 seconds
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Escape Acts
Published: Feb. 17, 2018, 7:23 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 43 seconds
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Court Jesters and Black Mirrors
Published: Jan. 20, 2018, 1:34 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 7 seconds
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Sacred Cows
Published: Jan. 5, 2018, 11:08 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 10 seconds
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No Happy Endings
Published: Dec. 23, 2017, 3:13 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 55 seconds
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Palestinian literature: regrets, tough choices and teen adventures
Published: Dec. 8, 2017, 8:22 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes 4 seconds
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Know Your Audience
Published: Nov. 24, 2017, 4:50 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 36 seconds
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Belonging to Oneself
Published: Nov. 8, 2017, 9:28 p.m.Duration: 40 minutes 53 seconds
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