Radical Foundations! Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi
This masterclass on Egyptian writer and feminism Nawal el Saadawi's groundbreaking book Woman at Point Zero is organized in collaboration with the Adabiyat Book Club.
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Symposium on Translation and the Making of Arab American Community
This Symposium on Translation and the Making of Arab American Community will include a panel featuring Khaled Mattawa, Fady Joudah, and Dunya Mikhail as well as a reading by Dunya Mikhail.
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The Art of Reviewing Literature in Translation
The National Book Critics Circle will hold a panel with literary translators and critics, discussing strategies for book critics reviewing a work in translation.
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Mona Kareem: ‘Translation against National Literature, The Gulf Example’
In this talk, Dr. Mona Kareem (Tufts Center for Humanities) will share with us her research project around modern literature in the Arab Gulf. Kareem's project applies a transnational framework […]
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The Arabian Nights and its Afterlives: Yasmine Seale in Conversation
Join the Brooklyn Institute on Tuesday, November 23rd, as they welcome poet and translator Yasmine Seale for a wide-ranging discussion of the aesthetics, poetics, and politics of the "Arabian Nights".
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Why aren’t more children’s books published in translation?
Join Tom Tivan, Pam Dix, Salwa Shakshir, and Tom Bonnick as they discuss the market for global children’s literature.
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Banipal Book Club – ‘Sarajevo Firewood’
Join the Banipal Book Club for a discussion of 'Sarajevo Firewood' by Algerian writer Saïd Khatibi, featuring its translator Paul Starkey.
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Book Launch + Conversation: Alaa Abd El-Fattah’s ‘You Have Not Yet Been Defeated’
To mark the publication of 'You Have Not Yet Been Defeated' by Alaa Abd El-Fattah, the event features recorded and live readings by writers Naomi Klein and Ahdaf Soueif, poet Seán Hewitt and sociologist-activist Ronit Lentin as well as a discussion between Annie Fletcher, director of IMMA and Hussein Omar, historian of political ideas.
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Translating the Nights with Yasmine Seale
Join "Evenings with an Author" (in person and online) to discuss a new translation of the "Arabian Nights" by award-winning poet and translator Yasmine Seale.