“I can imagine a course that focuses on medieval Europe, medieval Baghdad, and late-medieval China — not so much to compare, but to contrast. How does this get recorded by male historians, what matters?”
“One month after London’s Shubbak, Edinburgh will host its own Arab Festival 2015 on August 28-29 at the University of Edinburgh.”
“One of the things we ought to be doing, in the Library of Arabic Literature, one of the things we ought to be putting online, is an index of these traveling motifs.”
“If you’re free, please find us in the The British Library Conference Centre, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB.”
“Of course, we should mention that translators have been more interested in translating poetry than prose. Works by contemporary Arab poets such as Nizar Qabbani, Ghada al-Samman and Adunis have been well received by Iranian intellectuals.”
“Alone, between sky and earth, I think of Radwa.”
“Because the author went through and carefully edited his text, perhaps with the idea of…turning a series of newspaper articles into something that might lead you to believe it’s a contribution to the development of narrative genre, which would come after it.”
“A new collection of Laâbi’s work has also just appeared in Italian.”
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