Slipping: Mohamed Kheir and Robin Moger in conversation with Yasmine El Rashidi
2:00 pm PT | 3:00 pm MT | 4:00 pm CT | 5:00 pm ET
Virtual Event
Two Lines Press joins the Transnational Literary Series to celebrate Mohamed Kheir’s Slipping, the Egyptian author’s first book to be brought into English by Robin Moger. Mohamed and Robin will be in conversation with Egyptian writer Yasmine El Rashidi.
This event will take place on Zoom. Register on Brookline Booksmith’s website,(opens in a new tab) and while you’re there, order a copy of the book(opens in a new tab).
Mohamed Kheir is a novelist, poet, short story writer, journalist, and lyricist. Slipping (Eflat Al Asabea, Kotob Khan Publishing House, 2018; Two Lines Press, 2021) is his second novel and his first to be translated into English. He lives in Egypt.
Robin Moger is a translator of Arabic to English currently based in Cape Town, South Africa. He has translated several novels and prose works into English including Iman Mersal’s How To Mend (Kayfa ta), Nael Eltoukhy’s The Women of Karantina (AUC Press) and Youssef Rakha’s The Crocodiles (7 Stories Press).
Yasmine El Rashidi is an Egyptian writer. She is the author of The Battle for Egypt, Dispatches from the Revolution, and Chronicle of a Last Summer, A Novel of Egypt. She is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, and is an editor of the Middle East arts and culture journal Bidoun. She lives in Cairo.