May 2016: Global Arab and Arabic Literary Events Calendar
Arab and Arabic literary events in some form of translation.
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Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
Sunday Submission: Research Associate in ‘The Arabic Nahda: Text Circulation and Translation in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries’
” She/he will also assist in the production of an edited collection of essays, and may undertake literature review.”
For Indie Bookstore Day: 33 Great Arab Bookshops Recommended by Writers, Translators, and Scholars
“They have every Arabic book you can dream of.”
Friday Film: Based on Naguib Mahfouz’s ‘A Beginning and an End’
“This landmark work of Egyptian realism, the first of Abu Seif’s collaborations with Mahfouz, follows a widowed mother’s hellish struggle against poverty.”
Congratulations to Eight Emerging Arabic Novelists Who Won 2016 AFAC Grants
You can read more about their projects in Arabic and English at the AFAC website.
The Poem for Which Dareen Tatour’s Under House Arrest: ‘Resist, My People, Resist Them’
“Resist, my rebellious people.”
Dareen Tatour: ‘I Will Not Leave My Country’
“They signed for me
And turned me into
A file, forgotten”
Musical Group Mashrou’ Leila Banned from Jordan, Allegedly for Endorsing ‘Gender Equality and Sexual Freedom’
“We denounce the systemic prosecution of advocates of sexual and religious freedom.
“We denounce the censorship of artists anywhere in the world.”
Rabai al-Madhoun’s ‘Destinies’ Wins 2016 International Prize for Arabic Fiction
“Al-Madhoun, whose 2010 novel The Lady of Tel Aviv was also shortlisted for the IPAF, builds on the themes and characters of that earlier novel with Destinies.”