Iman Mersal

Translation Spotlight: Haunted and Haunting

December 29, 2025
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Appreciations of three remarkable translated works that have preoccupied me for months.

Poetry Review: Iman Mersal’s “Threshold” — Exploring the Idea of Home

November 20, 2022
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Underlying all of these pieces is the sensibility of the émigrée, the person who has had to reinterpret everything in her life.

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