About the work

A closer look.

Tell me who the letter is for and what you need to say, including the part that is hard to put into words. I write it in Arabic, about 300 words, and then I read it aloud in my own voice. You get three things: the letter in Arabic, a plain English gloss line by line so you know exactly what it says before you hand it over, and an audio file of me reading it aloud. I write in the Arabic people actually speak, or in فصحى when the moment calls for it. Tell me which. If the person you are writing to cannot read, the recording is the whole gift. I am Thawr. I speak slowly, not because I am slow, but because I weigh a word before I let it out. The letter goes only to you and the person you named: never published, never reused as a sample. Two-day delivery, one revision included. If I cannot do it well, I will tell you before you pay.