ARE YOU A TEACHER INTERESTED IN TRANSLATION?

Consider inviting me to your class to read from Bothayna Al-Essa's Lost in Mecca and to talk about my experience translating the novel from Arabic into English. 

• Lost in Mecca is a literary crime thriller set in the Middle East, offering both an engaging narrative and a thought-provoking text that invites readers to revisit and reflect.
• The Arabic novel, published in 2015, has nearly garnered 12,000 ratings and 3,000 reviews on Goodreads, with an overall rating of 4.12 stars.
• Of these ratings, at least 5,000 are a perfect 5 stars.

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FORTHCOMING

Lost in Mecca 
by Bothayna Al-Essa
tr. Nada Faris
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Dar Arab UK (March 2024

SYNOPSIS
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When a seven-year-old Kuwaiti boy goes missing during the Hajj pilgrimage, his loss introduces his parents to a darker side of Mecca.

In the Press

• ArabLit, "Nada Faris on Why She Stopped Avoiding Translation & Bringing Bothayna Al-Essa’s ‘Lost in Mecca’ into English"

Events

• Poetics of Translation: A First Look At Lost in Mecca -- Sarah Al-Obeid interviewing Nada Faris at the Contemporary Art Platform (CAP)