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SUMMARY:World Kid Lit Translator Social
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday 14 September 18:30 UTC (19:30 BST)  \nFree Zoom social event for translators into English from any language with an interest in writing for young people. Places will be limited. \n\n\n\nSeptember is #WorldKidLitMonth\, and we’re celebrating with a meet-up for translators who share an interest in writing for young people.\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nJoin us for a friendly gathering of translators working into English from any language worldwide to discuss a common interest: translating works for children and young adults. \nWe’ll have time to talk in small groups\, so come ready to tell us something about your work and interests. Perhaps tell us about your dream book you’d like to translate! \nWe’ll start with a short introduction to Project World Kid Lit and our aims as a volunteer collective working towards diversity in children’s publishing\, and multilingual inclusivity in education. \nUntil then\, happy #WorldKidLitMonth! \n* Tuesday 14 September at 18:30 UTC on Zoom * \nJoining details will be emailed to all attendees by 13 September
URL:https://arablit.org/event/world-kid-lit-translator-social/
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SUMMARY:Performative Essay: Arabic Letter Seen Arabic Letter Wow
DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to exist as an image\, as something seen but never comprehended? What happens when a language is visible yet continually misread\, or made illegible? \n‘Arabic Letter Seen Arabic Letter Wow’ is a performative essay that investigates the relationships between image\, language\, and power. Presenting a collection of found materials\, Urok Shirhan speculates on practices that engage with Arabic through forms of Othering – as well as resistance. She explores the extent to which these practices amount to what she sees as ‘the slow violence of images’ . \nUrok Shirhan is an artist and researcher working at the intersection of performance\, visual arts and critical theory. Her practice explores the politics and poetics of sound\, image and speech in relation to power and affect. As an Iraqi-born\, former asylum-seeker turned Dutch citizen\, issues surrounding identity and displacement are of particular interest\, and her projects are often informed by her family’s history of political migrations. Urok’s latest body of research considers the role of sound (and the voice in particular) in relation to forms of collectivity\, dissidence and belonging. \nSign up for this online event at the Mosaic Rooms website.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/performative-essay-arabic-letter-seen-arabic-letter-wow/
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SUMMARY:Kitab Talk: "The Arabic Collections Online Project" with Guy Burak and David Millman (NYU Libraries)
DESCRIPTION:Arabic Collections Online (ACO) is a partnership of several major research libraries in the United States and the Middle East to digitize the Arabic monographs in their collections and make them freely accessible to the world. ACO consists of more than 17\,000 volumes from most Arabic-speaking countries\, Turkey and Iran. Our presentation will offer an overview of the project and the collection. We will also discuss some of the challenges we have faced over the years. \nSpeakers:\n-Guy Barak\, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Librarian\, NYU\n-David Millman\, Assistant Dean for Digital Library Technology Services\, NYU \nThe Kitab Talk series is a program of the Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies and the University Libraries at UNC-Chapel Hill.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/kitab-talk-the-arabic-collections-online-project-with-guy-burak-and-david-millman-nyu-libraries/
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SUMMARY:Knowing the Self: Diaspora and Identity through Arabic poetry
DESCRIPTION:If Arabic is a poetic language\, what poetry do Arabic-speaking diasporas need to know to understand their identities?\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nAli Al-Jamri and Huda Fakhreddine will read from the canons of Arabic poetry to draw an image of what it means to be Arab living in the diaspora\, and how those residing in the West can understand their heritage best. With readings featuring poetry in Arabic with English translation\, the event is perfect for Arabic speakers of all levels and poetry lovers of all backgrounds. \nHuda Fakhreddine is a writer\, translator\, editor and associate professor of Arabic literature at the University of Pennsylvania. Her translations of modern Arabic poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Banipal\, World Literature Today\, and Middle Eastern Literatures. Her translation Come\, Take A Gentle Stab by Salim Barakat is forthcoming September 2021. \nAli Al-Jamri is a Bahraini poet and translator based in the UK. He edited Between Two Islands (2021)\, an anthology of Bahraini diaspora poetry. His work has appeared in anthologies and magazines including Modern Poetry in Translation\, and he is currently curating Manchester Poetry Library’s Arabic poetry collection. \nSign up here.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/knowing-the-self-diaspora-and-identity-through-arabic-poetry/
LOCATION:Manchester Poetry Library
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210907T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210907T183000
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SUMMARY:Iraq: Corporeality & Memory: Iraqi literature\, 20 years after 9/11
DESCRIPTION:Register here. \nThe first of two events in the series Remnants of the Iraq Wars: Iraqi Literature Twenty Years after 9/11 \nAbout this event \nCentre for Comparative Literature\, Goldsmiths\, University of London \nThe aftermath of September 11th 2001\, which brought about the “war on terror” and the invasion of Iraq\, also led the destruction of the Iraqi state and its social structure. Authors\, translators and scholars Sinan Antoon\, Dunya Mikhail\, Adnan Al-Sayegh\, Jenny Lewis\, and Haytham Bahoora meet to read from their work and discuss how Iraq in contemporary literature ‘writes back’ in the face of destruction and assaults on culture. \nThe discussion addresses notions of corporeality and memory in terms of both the body of the text – a space for experimentation and venture into new genres and trends – and as the literary representations of the body – which can be read as a technique of epistemic disobedience establishing anticolonial redefinitions of gender\, self\, beauty\, and pain. \nChaired by Hanan Jasim Khammas\, Visiting Doctoral Scholar at the Centre for Comparative Literature\, Goldsmiths\, University of London. \nAttendance is free but booking is essential. \nSpeakers: \nSinan Antoon is a poet\, novelist\, scholar\, and translator. He was raised in Iraq and left after the 1991 Gulf War. He holds degrees from Baghdad\, Georgetown\, and Harvard. He has published two collections of poetry and four novels. His works have been translated to fifteen languages. His translation of Mahmoud Darwish’s last prose book In the Presence of Absence won the 2012 American Literary Translators’ Award. In 2003 he returned to his native Baghdad to co-direct About Baghdad\, a documentary about post-occupation Iraq. His most recent work is The Book of Collateral Damage (Yale University Press). His scholarly works include The Poetics of the Obscene: Ibn al-Hajjaj and Sukhf\, and essays on Sargon Boulus\, Saadi Youssef\, and Mahmoud Darwish. He is associate professor of Arabic Literature at New York University. \nDunya Mikhail was born in Baghdad\, Iraq\, and moved to the United States 31 years later in 1996. After graduating from the University of Baghdad\, she worked as a journalist and translator for the Baghdad Observer. Facing censorship and interrogation\, she left Iraq\, first to Jordan and then to America\, settling in Detroit. New Directions published her books In Her Feminine Sign\, The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq\, The Iraqi Nights\, Diary of A Wave Outside the Sea\, and The War Works Hard as well as her edited volume\, 15 Iraqi Poets. She has received a United States Artists Fellowship\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a Kresge Fellowship\, and the United Nations Human Rights Award for Freedom of Writing. She works as a special lecturer of Arabic at Oakland University in Michigan. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShe will read poems from “In Her Feminine Sign” published in 2019 by New Directions. \nAdnan al-Sayegh was born in al-Kufa\, Iraq in 1955. He has published eleven collections of poetry\, including the 550-page Uruk’s Anthem. He left his homeland in 1993\, lived in Amman\, and Beirut then took refuge in Sweden in 1996. He has been living in exile in London since 2004. He has received several international awards\, and has been invited to read his poems in many festivals across the world. His poetry had been translated into many languages. His last book Let Me Tell You What I Saw: Extracts from ‘Uruk’s Anthem’ – edited\, translated and with an introduction by Jenny Lewis with others – was published by Seren Books\, October 2020. Adnan has worked with Jenny Lewis on a programme of workshops and readings in the U.K.\, Sweden\, Morocco and Egypt. This resulted in three pamphlets in English and Arabic –published by Mulfran Press. \nJenny Lewis is a poet\, playwright and translator who teaches poetry at Oxford University and specialises in cross-disciplinary work blending poetry with visual art\, music\, dance\, theatre and film. Her recent publications are Let Me Tell You What I Saw (Seren\, 2020)\, a translation of extracts from Uruk’s Anthem by the Iraqi poet Adnan Al-Sayegh; and Gilgamesh Retold(Carcanet Classics\, 2018) which was a New Statesman Book of the Year\, a Carcanet Book of the Year and a London Review of Books Book of the Week. Since 2012 she has been collaborating with Adnan on an award-winning\, Arts Council-funded project aimed at building bridges between English and Arabic-speaking communities – ‘Writing Mesopotamia’ – which has resulted in a huge number of creative outcomes including a song\, ‘Anthem for Gilgamesh’\,which has received over 60\,000 ‘hits’ on YouTube and Arab websites and been shown at festivals worldwide. https://jennylewis.org.uk \nJenny and Adnan will present some of their work for the ‘Writing Mesopotamia’ project and discuss its importance to the wider community. They will also discuss working together as translators and read some extracts from Let Me Tell You What I Saw. \nHaytham Bahoora is Assistant Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto. His research has explored the relationship between aesthetics and politics\, the emergence and transformations of new genres and styles in modern Arabic prose and poetry\, and the intersections of textual\, material\, and visual forms in cultural production. He has published articles and book chapters on modernist Arabic poetry\, gender and narrative\, post-war Iraqi fiction\, the early Arabic novel\, and modernist architecture in the Middle East. His book\, Aesthetics of Arab Modernity: Literature and Urbanism in Colonial Iraq\, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. \nThe body is a means of representation in the staging of violence\, war\, and historical memory. A focus on the body is a focus on not what the body is\, but how particular discourses have constructed it. For example\, how is gendered violence constituted in Iraqi fiction? How is corporeal violence gendered? How does the gendered body become invisible during times of crisis/war/sectarian violence/the precarity of daily life? How does the female body experience this precarity in Iraq today? This paper explores the ways I which Iraqi writers embody this history and this present in their writings. It examines post-2003 Iraqi literature (Sinan Antoon\, Hassan Blasim\, Luay Hamza Abbas) as producing a postcolonial gothic fiction specific to the Iraqi experience\, where the genre of horror\, the grotesque\, and the haunting of the past intersect with representations of bodily violence to engage with Iraqi history and memory. It also highlights other stylistic strategies\, where attempts to rewrite Iraqi history and to retrieve the past becomes central to reckoning with the precarity and impossibility/unliveablity of the present. \nHanan Jasim Khammas (Chair)\, Visiting Doctoral Scholar at the CCL\, is PhD candidate in literary theory and comparative literature at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona\, working on the representation of the body in contemporary Iraqi fiction. She is Adjunct Lecturer of Arabic and contemporary Arabic literature at UAB\, on the Master in Contemporary Arabic Studies. She is a member of the research project Gender(s)\, Language(s) in Contemporary Arabness and Junior editor at Revista Banipal\, the Spanish edition of Banipal. \nThis is the first event in the series Remnants of the Iraq Wars: Iraqi Literature Twenty Years after 9/11.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/iraq-corporeality-memory-iraqi-literature-20-years-after-9-11/
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SUMMARY:Imagining Disaster: Science Fiction X Contemporary Art\, Featuring Palestine +100 editor Basma Ghalayini
DESCRIPTION:Panel Discussion with Mike Pinnington\, David Blandy\, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki and Basma Ghalayini\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nScience Fiction – a term popularised if not invented by American publisher Hugo Gernsback in the 1920s – has existed as a genre for over a century. Although its roots can be traced back further still (not least to 1818 and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein)\, its arrival runs roughly in parallel with the birth of cinema. From Georges Melies’ fanciful A Trip to the Moon (1902) via Stanley Kubrick’s masterful 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) to its present-day dominance at the box office\, it fires imaginations and thrills audiences in ever-growing numbers. \nImagining Disaster: Science Fiction X Contemporary Art is inspired by the genre many of us fell in love with when we were children – when films like Star Wars (1977) and The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) acted as gateways to a larger\, fantastic world. Additionally\, it is informed by Susan Sontag’s 1965 essay The Imagination of Disaster\, in which Sontag argues: “Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster\, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.” Earlier that decade\, this (and more besides) had been demonstrated by Chris Marker’s ‘photo-novel’ La Jetée (1962)\, a haunting tale of post-apocalyptic time travel. \nMore recently\, contemporary artists have increasingly borrowed from\, leaned into\, and otherwise employed the science fiction playbook in their work. Why would this be\, and why now? Join us in exploring and addressing these questions and many more\, in a panel discussion looking at the power and potential of science fiction in the visual arts and beyond. \nStreaming live to Twitch: twitch.tv/openeyegallery
URL:https://arablit.org/event/imagining-disaster-science-fiction-x-contemporary-art-featuring-palestine-100-editor-basma-ghalayini/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210829T130000
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SUMMARY:Adabiyat Book Club: Isabella Hammad's "The Parisian"
DESCRIPTION:Adabiyat Book Club will meet on Sunday August 29 at 1 pm EST to discuss Isabella Hammad’s The Parisian. To join\, you can DM them on Twitter with your email address—everyone is welcome!
URL:https://arablit.org/event/adabiyat-book-club-isabella-hammads-the-parisian/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210818T161500
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DTSTAMP:20260408T034815
CREATED:20210812T113556Z
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SUMMARY:Iman Mersal: The Limits and Pleasures of Egyptian Womanhood @edbookfest
DESCRIPTION:Iman Mersal is a major figure in international literature\, an Egyptian poet whose work is characterised by her ardently experimental style. Her latest novel\, Fee Athar Enayat Al Zayyat (In the Footsteps of Enayat Al-Zayyat)\, was published in 2019 and was named as the winner of the prestigious Sheikh Zayed Book Award earlier this year. Inspired by the work\, life and death of Egyptian writer Enayat Al-Zayyat\, Mersal writes the portrait of a woman rallying against a society framed by nationalism and fear\, where individualism is something to be quashed. There are parallels between Mersal’s own experiences as a writer who came of age in 1990s Egypt and her protagonist who was trying to get published in the same country 60 years ago. Mersal discusses her astounding novel\, contemporary Egyptian womanhood\, and how translation takes words ‘to new languages and homes’ with poet and writer Mona Kareem.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/iman-mersal-the-limits-and-pleasures-of-egyptian-womanhood-edbookfest/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210817T161500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210817T171500
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SUMMARY:Samar Yazbek: Escapism for Survival @edbookfest
DESCRIPTION:Leading Syrian author Samar Yazbek joins the Edinburgh International Book Festival live from France to discuss the vital role of the imagination in the struggle for survival. Yazbek spoke about the challenges of life in Syria at the Book Festival in 2012; since then\, her home country has continued to endure a devastating conflict. Join us as she speaks to academic and activist Esa Aldegheri about her work. \nThis is a live event\, with an author Q&A.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/samar-yazbek-escapism-for-survival-edbookfest/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20210817T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20210817T170000
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CREATED:20210705T214114Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210713T195029Z
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SUMMARY:Opening of 'Resistance\, Rebellion & Revolution': On Libyan Artist and Satirist Hasan ‘Alsatoor’ Dhaimish
DESCRIPTION:Resistance\, Rebellion & Revolution is a project on the life and works of the late Libyan artist and satirist\, Hasan ‘Alsatoor’ Dhaimish (1955-2016). \nCoinciding with the ten-year anniversary of the Libyan revolution\, an exhibition at London’s Hoxton 253 offers a ruminative reflection on the artist’s life in exile in the UK\, while a new online exhibition of Hasan’s work presents over 5\,000 pieces of satire he produced over his career. \nMore at alsatoor.com.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/opening-of-resistance-rebellion-revolution-on-libyan-artist-and-https-www-alsatoor-com/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210816T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210816T173000
DTSTAMP:20260408T034815
CREATED:20210811T233511Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210811T233808Z
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SUMMARY:Iman Mersal: The Limits and Pleasures of Egyptian Womanhood
DESCRIPTION:Iman Mersal is a major figure in international literature\, an Egyptian poet whose work is characterised by her ardently experimental style. Her latest book\, Fee Athar Enayat Al Zayyat (In the Footsteps of Enayat Al-Zayyat)\, was published in 2019 and was named as the winner of the prestigious Sheikh Zayed Book Award earlier this year. Inspired by the work\, life and death of Egyptian writer Enayat Al-Zayyat\, Mersal writes the portrait of a woman rallying against a society framed by nationalism and fear\, where individualism is something to be quashed. There are parallels between Mersal’s own experiences as a writer who came of age in 1990s Egypt and her protagonist who was trying to get published in the same country 60 years ago. Mersal discusses her astounding work of nonfiction\, contemporary Egyptian womanhood\, and how translation takes words ‘to new languages and homes’ with poet and writer Mona Kareem. \nThis event is 4:15-5:15 p.m. BST; apologies\, WordPress only allows start and end times on the half hour. \nThis is a live event\, with an author Q&A. Book your spot at the event here.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/iman-mersal-the-limits-and-pleasures-of-egyptian-womanhood/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210814T161500
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SUMMARY:Hoda Barakat: Lost Voices of the Arab Spring @edbookfest
DESCRIPTION:In this event the acclaimed Lebanese writer Hoda Barakat discusses her new novel\, translated into English by International Booker-winning translator Marilyn Booth. Voices of the Lost\, which won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2019\, is built around imagined letters written by migrants or asylum seekers from the Arab world – missives which sadly never reached their intended recipients. Each one\, falling into the hands of another asylum seeker\, prompts that person to begin a letter of their own. The result offers moving\, sometimes painful insights into the lives of migrants – not only the betrayals and agonies but also\, at times\, the hope and faith that things will improve. Barakat joins us today from her home in France to discuss Voices of the Lost with British Council Co-Director Literature\, David Codling. \nThis is a live event\, with an author Q&A.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/hoda-barakat-lost-voices-of-the-arab-spring-edbookfest/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210812T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210812T183000
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SUMMARY:"Music to Stir the Soul" with Yasmine Seale
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a virtual evening of music and conversation inspired by the exhibition Reflections: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa. \nThe event kicks off with a performance by Maya Youssef\, composed in response to the display and recorded in the gallery. Youssef says\, ‘This will be the first time where I compose in reaction to a work of art as part of my ‘Finding Home’ album. It is a journey through feelings of nostalgia and memories and essences of home\, both within and without\, where art interweaves with music.’ She plays with Elizabeth Nott and Al MacSween. \nArtist Samira Abbassy will speak about her drawing Unravelling\, which is currently on display in Reflections and is one of the inspirations for Youssef’s piece. Writer Yasmine Seale will also discuss muwashshahat  – multilingual love poems of Al-Andalus\, sung by women\, which had a powerful influence on the development of lyric poetry in Europe. \nThe event will be introduced and chaired by curator Venetia Porter. It is part of the public programme accompanying Reflections: contemporary art of the Middle East and North Africa at the British Museum (17 May – 15 August)\, supported by the Contemporary and Modern Middle Eastern Art (CaMMEA) acquisitions group. \nTo attend this event via Zoom\, book here to secure your place.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/music-to-stir-the-soul-with-yasmine-seale/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Moscow:20210808T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Moscow:20210808T133000
DTSTAMP:20260408T034815
CREATED:20210805T180141Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210805T180141Z
UID:44227-1628424000-1628429400@arablit.org
SUMMARY:The Leporetto Art of Etel Adnan - Mixing Japanese art with the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish
DESCRIPTION:Please join us virtually to view the Palestine Museum US’s latest acquisition\, artist Etel Adnan’s leporetto\, generously loaned for the year by Martha Damage and available for purchase. \nNancy Nesvet\, Palestine Museum US Head Curator will discuss this unique art form and Etal Adnan’s adaptation of the Japanese accordion book to highlight Mahmoud Darwish’s poem. \nMartha Damage will follow with a delightful recounting of her long friendship with Etel Adnan in Berkeley\, California and her purchase of the Leporetto\, and will answer questions from the audience.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/the-leporetto-art-of-etel-adnan-mixing-japanese-art-with-the-poetry-of-mahmoud-darwish/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Moscow:20210807T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Moscow:20210807T143000
DTSTAMP:20260408T034815
CREATED:20210805T175944Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210805T175944Z
UID:44223-1628337600-1628346600@arablit.org
SUMMARY:Free virtual screening of the feature film "3000 Nights" directed by Mai Masri
DESCRIPTION:3000 Nights tells the story of a newlywed Palestinian schoolteacher who is falsely arrested and incarcerated in an Israeli prison where she gives birth to her son. Inspired by a true story and shot in a real prison\, the film traces a young mother’s journey of hope\, resilience\, and survival against all odds. \n\n\n\n\nMai Masri is an award-winning filmmaker who studied film at UC Berkeley and San Francisco State University (USA). She directed and produced several documentaries that were screened worldwide and won over 90 international awards. 3000 Nights\, her first narrative feature film\, premiered at Toronto International Film Festival and won 28 international awards. It represented Palestine at the Golden Globes and Jordan at the Oscar Academy Awards.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/free-virtual-screening-of-the-feature-film-3000-nights-directed-by-mai-masri/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Moscow:20210801T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Moscow:20210801T200000
DTSTAMP:20260408T034815
CREATED:20210728T115105Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210728T115209Z
UID:44039-1627844400-1627848000@arablit.org
SUMMARY:Book Launch: "In My Mother's Footsteps\," by Mona Hajjar Halaby
DESCRIPTION:On Sunday August 1\, there will be a virtual book launch for “In My Mother’s Footsteps\,” by Mona Hajjar Halaby. \n“When Mona moved from California to Ramallah to teach conflict resolution at the Ramallah Friends School for a year\, she kept a journal. Within its pages\, she wrote her impressions of her homeland\, a place she had only experienced through her mother’s memories.” \nMore information and register for this event at the Palestine Museum website.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/book-launch-in-my-mothers-footsteps-by-mona-hajjar-halaby/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20210730T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20210730T210000
DTSTAMP:20260408T034815
CREATED:20210726T190351Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210726T190529Z
UID:44011-1627675200-1627678800@arablit.org
SUMMARY:The Digital Guide to Theatre of the Middle East: A celebration of MENA playwrights!
DESCRIPTION:Golden Thread Productions\, The Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies at Stanford University\, and the Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland host the launch of The Digital Guide to Theatre of the Middle East: 21st Century Volume (DGTOME) the first and only searchable database in the field of MENA Theatre created by dramaturg and researcher Marjan Moosavi. \nThe launch will commence with a presentation about DGTOME by Marjan Moosavi followed by a roundtable discussion with Arts Professor Catherine Coray\, playwright Adam El Sayegh\, and stage director Pirronne Yousefzadeh\, moderated by Sahar Assaf\, Golden Thread’s Executive Artistic Director and Samer Al Saber\, Assistant Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at Stanford University. \nThe launch is part of Golden Thread’s online program: “No Summary: Conversations with Artists who Don’t fit in a Box.”
URL:https://arablit.org/event/the-digital-guide-to-theatre-of-the-middle-east-a-celebration-of-mena-playwrights/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Moscow:20210729T210000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Moscow:20210729T220000
DTSTAMP:20260408T034815
CREATED:20210728T155411Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210728T155411Z
UID:44080-1627592400-1627596000@arablit.org
SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading/Talk by Dunya Mikhail
DESCRIPTION:Iraqi poet and writer Dunya Mikhail will give a virtual poetry reading/talk in Arabic on July 29 on the topic of “الكتابة الابداعية شعرا وسردا”.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/virtual-poetry-reading-talk-by-dunya-mikhail/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20210727T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20210727T153000
DTSTAMP:20260408T034815
CREATED:20210726T191017Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210726T191017Z
UID:44017-1627394400-1627399800@arablit.org
SUMMARY:Signals of Hope Cairo - New Initiatives in Publishing Communities
DESCRIPTION:Discover some of the exciting and inspiring initiatives that have emerged in the book industry during the pandemic. Our experts provide insight into the networking platforms\, literary formats\, and social media communities that are opening up innovative ways for users to connect online\, start collaborations\, experience literature in new ways\, and – most importantly – make books and authors more visible. \nThis panel discussion will feature Miriam Zeh and Fatima H. Abbas\, with Sherif Bakr moderating.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/signals-of-hope-cairo-new-initiatives-in-publishing-communities/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210725T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210725T200000
DTSTAMP:20260408T034815
CREATED:20210722T114100Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210722T114100Z
UID:43784-1627239600-1627243200@arablit.org
SUMMARY:GAZA Roundtable: The Markaz Review
DESCRIPTION:They write:\n\nJoin TMR this Sunday for a conversation with some of the contributors to the GAZA issue\, who will Zoom in from Gaza\, Europe and the USA. The event is free to the public\, however\, donations are always welcome (go here to make a one-time or monthly contribution: https://themarkaz.org/donate).\n\nBe sure to RSVP early\, the event is limited to just 500 attendees.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/gaza-roundtable-the-markaz-review/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210722T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210722T203000
DTSTAMP:20260408T034815
CREATED:20210701T182239Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210701T182239Z
UID:43159-1626980400-1626985800@arablit.org
SUMMARY:Our Women on the Ground: Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World
DESCRIPTION:Join a panel discussion moderated by editor Zahra Hankir\, with journalists Aida Alami\, Eman Helal\, and Heba Shibani on Our Women on the Ground: Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World – a book bringing together nineteen Arab women journalists to reflect on how they report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay collection. In their own words\, they talk about what it’s like to report on conflicts that\, quite literally\, hit close to home. \nA growing number of intrepid Arab and Middle Eastern sahafiyat—female journalists—are working tirelessly to shape nuanced narratives about their changing homelands\, often risking their lives on the front lines of war. From sexual harassment on the streets of Cairo to the difficulty of traveling without a male relative in Yemen\, their challenges are unique—as are their advantages\, such as being able to speak candidly with other women at a Syrian medical clinic or with men on WhatsApp who will go on to become ISIS fighters\, rebels\, or pro-regime soldiers.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/our-women-on-the-ground-arab-women-reporting-from-the-arab-world/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210722
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210725
DTSTAMP:20260408T034815
CREATED:20210713T191750Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210713T194542Z
UID:43391-1626912000-1627171199@arablit.org
SUMMARY:Conference: Pre-Modern Comparative Literary Practice in the Multilingual Islamic World(s)
DESCRIPTION:The virtual conference is co-organized by Huda Fakhreddine (University of Pennsylvania)\, David Larsen (New York University)\, and Hany Rashwan (University of Birmingham)\, with special thanks to Rawad Wehbe (University of Pennsylvania). The conference is hosted by the Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation Research Centre (OCCT)\, University of Oxford\, 22-24 July 2021.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/conference-pre-modern-comparative-literary-practice-in-the-multilingual-islamic-worlds/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210720T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210720T200000
DTSTAMP:20260408T034815
CREATED:20210705T212325Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210705T212325Z
UID:43221-1626805800-1626811200@arablit.org
SUMMARY:Online Translation Workshop: Iraqi Kurmanji poet Zêdan Xelef
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Translation Centre writes that they are “very proud to present our first ever workshop on Kurmanji poetry. We will be focussing on the work of Iraqi poet Zêdan Xelef\, who works in this dialect also known as Northern Kurdish.” \nThey add: \n“Our online poetry translation workshops can be accessed from anywhere in the world. Join like-minded poetry lovers from across the world to discover new poetry and different cultures\, share insights and language skills\, working together to open up a poem in its original language and reassemble it in English. \n“We have had participants from the UK\, Egypt\, Germany\, India and the Philippines. The workshops are the perfect way to keep you feeling creative\, engaged and connected to the world at large. A rough and ready guide translation is provided by the guest translator so there is no need to know the language being translated\, simply sign up and bring your love of language. \n“This online workshop will take place over two 90-minute sessions on Zoom over two consecutive Tuesdays. This format will let us spend time with a single poetic voice. The sessions will be lead by translator Bryar Bajalan who is an expert in the language\, and the professional poet and translator David Shook. They will offer insight into the nuances of the language and culture\, and give helpful suggestions for the direction of the translation that is produced.” \nThe workshop\, which will be delivered through Zoom\, is pay-what-you-can. Find out more at the Poetry Translation Centre website.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/online-translation-workshop-iraqi-kurmanji-poet-zedan-xelef/
LOCATION:Poetry Translation Centre
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20210720T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20210720T161500
DTSTAMP:20260408T034816
CREATED:20210719T125723Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210719T125942Z
UID:43521-1626793200-1626797700@arablit.org
SUMMARY:Translating Children’s Books: Sawad Hussain on 'The Djinn's Apple'
DESCRIPTION:Two translators and their publishers offer key insights into bringing a pair of titles – a longer picture book and a YA novel – to UK bookshelves. They’ll explore the process\, the challenges\, the funding and the market for children’s books in translation\, as well as what makes their collaborations special. B.J. Epstein will be discussing her translation from the Swedish of The Bird Within Me by Sara Lundberg\, shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal 2021\, with publisher Greet Pauwelijn of Book Island; while together with publisher Archna Sharma of Neem Tree Press\, Sawad Hussain will talk about her translation from the Algerian Arabic of The Djinn’s Apple by Djamila Morani. This event is chaired by Sarah Ardizzone.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/translating-childrens-books-sawad-hussain-on-the-djinns-apple/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20210718T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20210718T170000
DTSTAMP:20260408T034816
CREATED:20210701T182414Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210713T194750Z
UID:43163-1626595200-1626627600@arablit.org
SUMMARY:Pop-up Book Club Discussion of Adania Shibli's 'Minor Detail'
DESCRIPTION:Sahar Mustafah and Susan Darraj will lead a virtual pop-up book club discussion on Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail\, which is this year’s 1 Book\, Many Communities selection from Librarians and Archivists with Palestine. Find more information on their Instagram.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/pop-up-book-club-discussion-of-adania-shiblis-minor-detail/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210715T210000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210715T220000
DTSTAMP:20260408T034816
CREATED:20210709T192623Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210709T192623Z
UID:43319-1626382800-1626386400@arablit.org
SUMMARY:Rotten Evidence: Reading and Writing in an Egyptian Prison
DESCRIPTION: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 his own ambivalence in calling himself a writer. The basis for this panel will be Ahmed’s recent essay in the Believer Magazine.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/rotten-evidence-reading-and-writing-in-an-egyptian-prison/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210715T133000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210715T143000
DTSTAMP:20260408T034816
CREATED:20210708T104234Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210708T104350Z
UID:43296-1626355800-1626359400@arablit.org
SUMMARY:Female Voices in Arabic Literature
DESCRIPTION: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. \nSpeakers: \n\nSawad Hussain is an Arabic translator and litterateur who is passionate about bringing narratives from the African continent to wider audiences. Her translations have been recognized by English PEN\, the Anglo-Omani Society and the Palestine Book Awards\, among others. She has forthcoming translations from Fitzcarraldo Editions\, MacLehose Press\, and Dedalus Books.\nDr Marlé Hammond is currently Senior Lecturer in Arabic Popular Literature & Culture at SOAS University of London where she teaches courses on Arabic literature and Middle Eastern and North African cinema. Previously\, she was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow (2007-2010) and a St John’s College Research Centre Fellow (2002-2006) at Oxford University.\nIman Mersal is a renowned Egyptian poet\, writer\, academic and translator. She works as an Associate professor of Arabic literature and Middle Eastern studies at the University of Alberta\, Canada and currently resides in Marseille\, France. An anthology of her works was translated into more than twenty languages and she has five poetry collections published. Her work Fee Athar Enayat Al Zayyat (In the Footsteps of Enayat Al-Zayyat) won a Sheikh Zayed Book Award for Literature in 2021.\n\nThe panel is chaired by Marcia Lynx Qualey\, literary critic and editor who runs the Arab Lit website and co-hosts the Bulaq podcast. \nThe webinar will be held live on Zoom at 1:30 PM BST / GMT+1 with simultaneous Arabic interpretation. For more information and to register\, visit https://thebookseller.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yOEL-LjUTD62lxhixzjs2g. Tickets are free for all.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/female-voices-in-arabic-literature-2/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210715T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210715T120000
DTSTAMP:20260408T034816
CREATED:20210713T161925Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210713T161925Z
UID:43373-1626346800-1626350400@arablit.org
SUMMARY:Launch Event for the “Palestine Voices” Issue of World Literature Today
DESCRIPTION:From World Literature Today: \n“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. \n“Topics will include discussion of the Arabic language; the writers discussing their essays\, poetry\, short stories\, and interviews featured in the issue; as well as comments by the artists and photographers about their work included in the issue. There will also be a Q&A opportunity to discuss these and other topics with the contributors. We will also give away several copies of the issue to attendees throughout the event. \n“Preregistration is required.”
URL:https://arablit.org/event/launch-event-for-the-palestine-voices-issue-of-world-literature-today/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Moscow:20210714T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Moscow:20210714T193000
DTSTAMP:20260408T034816
CREATED:20210705T160202Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210713T194817Z
UID:43201-1626285600-1626291000@arablit.org
SUMMARY:Politics of Literature
DESCRIPTION:The Istanbul branch of Columbia Global Centers is hosting a workshop discussing the engagement of literary figures in the turbulent politics of the turn-of-the-century\, organized by Zeynep Çelik and Merve İspahani.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/politics-of-literature/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20210711T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20210711T190000
DTSTAMP:20260408T034816
CREATED:20210701T181844Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210701T181844Z
UID:43156-1626026400-1626030000@arablit.org
SUMMARY:BILA HUDOOD: Young Adult Lit
DESCRIPTION:Young Adult literature in Arabic is a small but extraordinarily vibrant space\, which has seen steady growth in the last decade\, with new literary prizes\, new sub-genres\, and a growing appetite for new books among young readers. Among these fantastic new worlds\, readers will find time-travel fantasies\, science fictional futures\, magical realism\, detective tales\, and more. \nThis panel will be led by leading expert on Arabic YA Susanne Abou Ghaida\, who will be joined by three YA writers: by Palestinian-Jordanian novelist Taghreed Najjar\, Syrian novelist Maria Dadouch\, and Egyptian novelist and translator Ahmed al-Mahdi. \nThere is no need to register. \nYou can simply show up at the YouTube page to join. However\, if you would like a reminder\, you can get one via this Facebook event page or EventBrite.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/bila-hudood-young-adult-lit/
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