M. Lynx Qualey

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our guest today is M. Lynx Qualey. We&rsquo;re going to be talking about everything from translation to KDrama to work-life balance to the idea of guilty pleasures. Qualey is founding editor of the &lsquo;ArabLit&rsquo; website (</span><a href="http://www.arablit.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">www.arablit.org</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">), which won a 2017 London Book Fair &ldquo;Literary Translation Initiative&rdquo; prize. She also publishes the experimental </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">ArabLit Quarterly </span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">magazine and is co-host of the Bulaq podcast. Her co-translation of the middle-grade novel </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ghady and Rawan </span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">was published in August 2019 by University of Texas Press, and her translation Sonia Nimr&rsquo;s </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands </span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">was published in 2020 by Interlink. She writes for a variety of popular publications. We&rsquo;re going to start by talking about ArabLit Quarterly. </span></p>