"Join us for a special event to discuss the newly launched “Palestine Voices” issue of World Literature Today hosted by Yousef Khanfar, who guest-edited the issue, and Daniel Simon, editor in chief of WLT, and featuring the contributing writers, poets, artists, and translators."
Join our panel as they discuss issues of translation, feminism, tradition and recognition in contemporary female Arab literature, in an exchange designed to open up fresh perspectives of women’s writing and Arab culture for everyone.
This panel will feature a discussion with Egyptian writer Ahmed Naji about his time spent in a Cairene prison for violating public decency laws in his second novel, Using Life. Being a prisoner forced Ahmed to examine the role of literature in society; meet the fabled Average Reader and a man named Rhinoceros; and confront […]
