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SUMMARY:2021 San Francisco Arab Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:The flagship event of the Arab Film and Media Institute\, the Arab Film Festival is the longest running independent festival of its kind in North America. Launched in 1996\, the festival’s mission is to present the best of contemporary films that illuminate the richness of Arab culture through authentic narratives and images\, providing insight into the beauty and complexity of the Arab world. \nThe festival also offers special programming to local audiences\, and unprecedented access to the diversity and range of authentic Arab experiences. The festival has gained an international reputation for excellence and offers its audiences access to media that reflects the lives of under-represented and provocative themes and groups on a cultural and societal level. \nThe 25th edition runs November 18-24\, 2021\, in-person throughout the San Francisco Bay Area\, with a virtual track open nationally.
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SUMMARY:Symposium on Translation and the Making of Arab American Community
DESCRIPTION:On November 12\, 2021 a one-day symposium will be held on the University of Michigan central campus in Ann Arbor. This event is free and open to the public\, with live-streaming via zoom. \nIt is co-sponsored by the Arab and Muslim American Studies Program and the Departments of Comparative Literature and Middle East Studies\, as part of the 2021-22 Mellon Sawyer Seminar Series on Sites of Translation in the Multilingual Midwest. \nCo-organized by Graham Liddell and Khaled Mattawa\, the symposium will explore how different forms of translation contribute to the making of Arab American communities in the Midwest\, including a panel (Panel 3) featuring a conversation between three prominent Arab-American authors and translators about the aesthetics and politics of Arabic–English translation\, within and beyond the realm of literature. Moderated by Nancy R. Roberts (translator of Arabic fiction)\, the panel includes Khaled Mattawa (poet\, translator\, and professor at U Michigan)\, Fady Joudah (poet\, physician\, and translator)\, and Dunya Mikhail (poet and lecturer at Oakland University). \nThe symposium will culminate in a reading by Iraqi-American poet\, Dunya Mikhail.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/symposium-on-translation-and-the-making-of-arab-american-community/
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SUMMARY:The Art of Reviewing Literature in Translation
DESCRIPTION:The National Book Critics Circle is pleased to announce that it will be launching a new prize for work in translation starting with the 2022 publishing year. The Greg Barrios Book in Translation Prize will honor the best book of any genre translated into English and published in the United States. \nIn honor of the new prize\, on Sunday\, November 21\, at 1 p.m. Eastern Time the National Book Critics Circle will hold a panel with literary translators and critics\, discussing strategies for book critics reviewing a work in translation. \nRegister for the free Zoom webinar here:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xyU7So79Rb-HSquxm4r2Eg \nPanelists include:\nJeremy Tiang is a novelist\, playwright and translator from Chinese. Originally from Singapore\, he lives in New York City. \nEmma Ramadan translates books of all genres from French. She is the recipient of the PEN Translation Prize\, the Albertine Prize\, an NEA Fellowship\, and a Fulbright for her work. Her recent translations include Abdellah Taïa’s A Country for Dying\, Kamel Daoud’s Zabor\, or the Psalms\, and Anne Garréta’s In Concrete. \nSamuel Martin is a co-editor of Hopscotch Translation and teaches French at the University of Pennsylvania. He has translated works by several contemporary writers including Jean-Christophe Bailly and Georges Didi-Huberman; his translation of Didi-Huberman’s photo-essay Bark was a co-winner of the French-American Foundation Translation Prize and was longlisted for the PEN Translation Prize. \nKevin Blankinship is a professor of Arabic at Brigham Young University and a contributing editor at New Lines Magazine. He has written about books and culture for The Atlantic\, The Los Angeles Review of Books\, Foreign Policy\, and more. His translations from Arabic have appeared in  academic journals as well as ArabLit Quarterly and the Ithra Cultural Center in Saudi Arabia. He tweets as @AmericanMaghreb. \nShelley Frisch’s translations from German\, which include biographies of Friedrich Nietzsche\, Albert Einstein\, Leonardo da Vinci\, Marlene Dietrich/Leni Riefenstahl (dual biography)\, and Franz Kafka along with many other works of fiction and nonfiction\, have been awarded numerous translation prizes\, including the Modern Language Association’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize and the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize. Her translation of Peter Neumann’s Jena 1800\, for FSG\, will be published in February\, and the following month will see publication\, by Princeton University Press\, of The  Aphorisms of Franz Kafka. \nDiscussion will be moderated Tara Wanda Merrigan\, NBCC board member and chair of the NBCC’s Translation Prize Working Group.\, National Book Critic
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