Congrats to Sevinç Türkkan and Catherine Cocks (Syracuse University Press), who have received a $4,500 grant for the “Creativity in Translation” event they proposed as part of the Humanities Center 2025-2026 Symposium on Creativity. The event features author Ibtisam Azem and her English translator Sinan Antoon in a conversation informed by their publication of The Book of Disappearance [سفر الاختفاء ] in English by Syracuse University Press’s Middle East Literature in Translation series. The event centers an author-translator bilingual reading, workshops and classroom visits, and promotes the creative aspects of translation. The award includes support from the office of Elisa Dekaney, Associate Provost for Strategic Initiatives, to encourage broad community engagement through this public events series.