Bio note

Ahmed Mourad, PhD is a lecturer of Turkish literature and translation at Ain-Shams University - Cairo as well as a literary translator from Turkish into Arabic.

Residency goals

Mourad's residency in Sofia is within the Translation Collider project that includes participation at the Sofia Forum on Translations as well as in the collective residency work on translating contemporary Balkan authors into Arabic. His translation project is an Arabic translation of Istanbul, Istanbul by Burhan Sönmez.

Public events with his participation

• 3-4 June | Sofia Forum on Translations 
• 5 June | 17:00 | A conversation with students at the Arabic Studies Department of Sofia University
• 10 June | Peroto Literary Club I Arabic Translation Slam

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