Moones Mansoubi

Moones Mansoubi is a translator and Community Arts and Cultural Development worker based in Sydney, Australia, working mostly with people from refugee and asylum-seeker backgrounds.
The banner image for her essay is a digital artwork called Ordinary Powerful Hands (2020), by Azarmidokht.s, who adds to it the statement, "Governments cannot be counted on, only people can help people." (This artwork also appears as the last image in the essay.)

Translating Manus and Nauru: Refugee Writing

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Translating Manus and Nauru: Refugee Writing

Written by Moones Mansoubi, Illustrated by Ken Krimstein

In 2013, when Australia began to detain refugees in off-shore prisons on Manus and Nauru islands, concerned Australians tried to help those held captive get their stories out. One, a recent immigrant from Iran called Moones Mansoubi, recalls that time and the talented writers she was able to help.