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Safwan Khatib

Contributor

Safwan Khatib

Safwan Khatib lives and works in St. Louis, Missouri. His poems and translations have recently appeared in The White Review and The Baffler.

Articles by Safwan Khatib

Doves Wailing in the Same Great Tree: An Interview with Khalid al-Maaly, Founder of al-Kamel Verlag

By Safwan Khatib

Born in 1956, Khalid al-Maaly is an Iraqi poet, publisher, and translator. After leaving Iraq in 1979, in the wake of the Ba'ath regime's crackdown on leftists and intellectuals, he spent time…

Translated by Safwan Khatib

On Fantasy and the Poetry of the Past: An Interview with Sofia Samatar

By Safwan Khatib

Born in a small town in northern Indiana in 1971, Sofia Samatar is the author of the forthcoming memoir The White Mosque (Catapult Books, 2022). Her first novel, A Stranger in Olondria, for which she…