I Can Imagine It for Us: A Book Launch with Mai Serhan

Mai Serhan

Award-winning author

Mai Serhan is a Palestinian writer who grew up in Egypt. She is the author of CAIRO: the undelivered letters, winner of the 2022 Center for Book Arts Poetry Chapbook Award, I Can Imagine It for Us, a finalist for the 2022 Narratively Memoir Prize, and the poetry collection, A Thousand Minarets & No Sidewalks (2025). She holds an MSt in creative writing from Oxford University, and has studied at NYU and AUC. She lives in Cairo.

Samia Mehrez

Award-winning author and Professor emerita of Arabic literature in the Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations and founder of the Center for Translation Studies at the American University in Cairo (2009–2021). She is the author of Egyptian Writers between History and Fiction (AUC Press, 1994) and Egypt's Culture Wars (2008), and the editor of The Literary Atlas of Cairo, The Literary Life of Cairo, and Translating Egypt’s Revolution: The Language of Tahrir (AUC Press, 2010, 2011, 2012).