Sharing Memories of Mark Linz
Photos & Videos | Timeline & Major Events | Memories | Werner Mark Linz Memorial Library In the (relatively short) history of Arabic literature in English translation, there are a few major […]
March 2013
2 Arab Authors Coming to the 2013 Oxford Lit Fest
CORRECTION: Three of the 5 originally noted were from last year’s fest. The remaining two are: Qatari writer Abdul Aziz al Mahmoud, whose novel The Corsair has just come out in English from BQFP. […]
Abdellatif Laâbi, Terra Incognita
Recently, Moroccan poet Abdellatif Laâbi was at London’s Mosaic Rooms and Free Word Centre, celebrating the release of his Bottom of the Jar and a new chapbook of his poems. Roland Glasser earlier reported […]
If You’re in Paris: Hyam Yared Round Table on March 15
Lebanese author Hyam Yared, who was one of the “Beirut39” — 39 celebrated Arab authors under 40 — will be the subject of a table ronde in Paris this week: […]
New Blog to Watch: Arab Arts Blog
Tasnim Qutait gave herself a wide berth when she named her new blog project, begun last fall, the “Arab Arts Blog.” While she defines the Arab & arts parts of the project, she […]
5 Translations of Youssef Habchi El-Achkar’s ‘Four Seasons Without a Summer’
This week over on the KRO blog, I write about McSweeney’s 42: Multiples, the all-translation, hot-potato-pass-the-story issue: This experiment, curated by novelist Adam Thirlwell, is all at once serious, frivolous, beautiful, clunky, […]
‘Urgent Witness’ at Brown University: Two-day Panel of Author Talks, Theater
Starting tomorrow at Brown University, there’s a two-day program of “Urgent Witness” that includes author talks, readings, and the staging of the play “House of Games” by Nihad Sirees. From […]
If You’re in Edinburgh: Come See Ibrahim Nasrallah
Ibrahim Nasrallah will be speaking at Blackwell’s bookshop on South Bridge in Edinburgh, Scotland at 6 pm on Tuesday March 12. By Sarah Irving Chairing the Nasrallah event will be […]
If You’re in Vancouver: ‘Translating a Flawed Masterpiece’
Dr. Geert Jan van Gelder, who recently translated and edited the Library of Arabic Literature collection Classical Arabic Literature: A Library of Arabic Literature Anthology, will be speaking in Surrey, B.C. on March 14 […]