A few upcoming online events.
Upcoming Events: Ghassan Kanafani Scholarship Anthology, Rabih Alameddine & more
A few upcoming online events.
Upcoming Events: Layla AlAmmar, Ahmad Almallah, Jokha Alharthi & More
A few upcoming online events.
Upcoming Events: ‘Zikra: Remembering ‘Abd al-Halim Hafiz,’ In Honor of Nawal El Saadawi, More
A few upcoming online events.
Liverpool Arab Arts Festival Creates an Archive of Digital Delights
"Not only did this create an increased sense of intimacy during the events, it also altered the temporality of the festival by allowing audiences to participate live, view recordings of events at their own leisure and, perhaps most significantly, to return to these events and reconsider their contents through the creation of a digital archive with many of the events still available to view online."
‘Hay Festival Abu Dhabi’ Announces 2020 Program Full of Literary Stars
“We absolutely want to make this festival work and to build on it, so that in 10 or 15 years’ time, people will perhaps look upon it in the way that the Colombians do with our festival in Cartagena.”
PEN World Voices: Which Voices?
This year's fest certainly had a moment that crystallized around its contradictions: when Salman Rushdie, giving a speech about courage and artistic risk, told a dissenter to shut the fuck up.
Applications for Prestigious Iowa International Writing Program Due April 7
For Arab authors: IWP is scheduled to take place at the University of Iowa this year from August 24 - Nov 12 and is for established and emerging creative writers who have published at least one book or whose work has appeared in significant publications over the past two years. They also must possess sufficient proficiency in English to benefit from the experience.
Hassan Blasim: I’m Not Interested in Preserving ‘The Beauty of the Arabic Language’
" I want to talk about what the Iraqi was like before he went to Abu Ghraib, not Abu Ghraib itself. I don't want to talk about the big events that lots of writers and journalists talk about; I'm more interested in the marginal events that don't get talked about."
Arabic Literary Events in Austria, Singapore
In Graz, Austria next week, Algerian-German novelist Boualem Sansal, Egyptian novelist Ibrahim Farghali, and Lebanese novelist Alawiyya Sobh (among others) will appear at the "Baklava Reading Festival" (yes, that sort of baklava)--
If You’re in NYC: ‘Translating the Maghreb after the Arab Spring’
If you're in New York City, or more particularly in Brooklyn, say around 5 p.m. on Sunday, the 23rd of September -- and can find your way to 209 Joralemon Street:
Iman Mersal Tuesday in Alberta; Sinan Antoon Friday in New York
If you're in Edmonton, Alberta, don't miss a reading tonight by Egyptian poet Iman Mersal, part of the Olive Reading Series:
