Mbarek Sryfi

Mbarek Sryfi is a lecturer in Arabic at the University of Pennsylvania where he is completing a PhD in modern Arabic literature. He is also an adjunct assistant professor at Mercer County Community College in New Jersey and currently is a visiting lecturer at Swarthmore College. His translations from the Arabic have appeared in CELAAN Review and Metamorphoses.

Monarch of the Square: An Anthology of Muhammad Zafzaf’s Short Stories by Muhammad Zafzaf
By Muhammad Zafzaf

Muhammad Zafzaf
Mbarek Sryfi & Roger Allen, tr. Syracuse, New York. Syracuse University Press. 2014. ISBN 9780815633693 Muhammad Zafzaf (1945–2001) was one of the most noted writers of Morocco. He authored severa…
Bilingual recordings: Eight Poems by Aicha Bassry
By Aicha Bassry
May 2012
Aicha Bassry
On the Edges of Autumn I shall close death’s doors.I am the autumn’s last flower.– Edith Södergran My body is like algaeExhausted by the night’s diving.Gather me up in…