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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210909T130000
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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=America/New_York:20210914T120000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210914T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210914T193000
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CREATED:20210913T080355Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210914T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210914T193000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210922T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210922T173000
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SUMMARY:Aftermath Bodies: Corporeality in Contemporary Iraqi fiction
DESCRIPTION:The second of two events in the series Remnants of the Iraq Wars: Iraqi Literature Twenty Years after 9/11\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nCentre for Comparative Literature\, Goldsmiths\, University of London \nEver since the US-led invasion of Iraq\, local and diaspora authors have been engaging with new aesthetics of corporeality. In this seminar\, Hanan Jasim Khammas\, CCL Visiting Doctoral Scholar\, in discussion with Ikram Masmoudi (University of Delaware) and Hanna Simpson(University of Oxford)\, reviews aspects of corporeality in contemporary Iraqi fiction and shows how new representation of the body suggest a development in the perceptions of the body as a cultural sign. \nChaired by Rita Sakr (Maynooth University). \nAttendance is free but booking is essential. Book here. \n\n\nHanan Jasim Khammas\, 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. \nDr. Ikram Masmoudi is an Associate Professor of Arabic Studies at the University of Delaware. Her research interests focus on contemporary Arabic and Iraqi literature especially post -2003 fiction of war\, occupation and migration. Her recent publications include a monograph War and Occupation in Iraqi Fiction (Edinburgh University Press)\, a translation of Hadiyya Hussein’s novel Beyond Love (Syracuse University Press)\, and she is currently working on a new book project about Apocalyptic Imagings in Arabic. \nDr. Hannah Simpson is the Rosemary Pountney Junior Research Fellow at St Anne’s College\, University of Oxford. Her work focuses on politicised and affective representations of the human body in modern and contemporary literature\, with a particular interest in depictions of physical pain and disability and in war literature. She has published extensively on Samuel Beckett’s writing in the joint Francophone and Irish contexts of World War II\, on politicised representations of the body in twentieth-century Irish literature\, and on the ongoing resonance of the ‘Troubles’ in contemporary Northern Irish literature. She has also co-edited special issues of Twentieth Century Literature\, Medical Humanities\, and The Journal of War and Culture Studies which focus on global cultural depictions of the non-combatant World War II body. She has two monographs forthcoming: Witnessing Pain: Samuel Beckett and Post-War Francophone Theatre (Oxford University Press) and Samuel Beckett and Disability Performance (Palgrave). \nDr. Rita Sakr is Lecturer in Postcolonial and Global Literatures and Director of the MA English: Literatures of Engagement at Maynooth University. She is the author of Monumental Space in the Post-Imperial Novel: An Interdisciplinary Study and of ‘Anticipating’ the 2011 Arab Uprisings: Revolutionary Literatures and Political Geographies\, co-editor of The Ethics of Representation in Literature\, Art and Journalism: Transnational Responses to the Siege of Beirut\, and co-director/co-producer of the RCUK-funded documentary on Beirut\, White Flags. Her recent and forthcoming work on migrant and refugee cultural production is included in Journal of Postcolonial Writing\, Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture and a Cambridge UP volume on Diaspora and Literary Studies\, among others. She is currently senior co-investigator on a mixed-methods research project that seeks to assess the psychosocial needs of first-generation Arabic-speaking adolescents in Ireland. She is co-founder of the Irish Network of Middle Eastern and North African Studies. \nBook for the event through EventBrite. \n\n\nThis is the second event in the series Remnants of the Iraq Wars: Iraqi Literature Twenty Years after 9/11.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/aftermath-bodies-corporeality-in-contemporary-iraqi-fiction/
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SUMMARY:Mizna Film Series: Birds of September
DESCRIPTION:For the last film in the Mizna Film Series: Beirut\, Mizna presents Birds of September by Sarah Francis. \nABOUT THE FILM\nA glassed van roams the streets of Beirut\, home to a camera that explores the city behind the glass. Along the way\, several people are invited to share a personal moment in this moving confessional. Each one comes as a face\, a body\, a posture\, a voice\, an attitude\, an emotion\, a point of view\, a memory. Their confessions are true\, blunt\, and intimate. However\, soon enough\, the van empties again\, and roams Beirut; restlessly looking for something\, for someone. \nSCREENING VIRTUALLY WORLDWIDE: September 23–26\, 2021
URL:https://arablit.org/event/mizna-film-series-birds-of-september/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210923T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210923T173000
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SUMMARY:Arab Poetry through the Ages: A Journey in Translation with Kareem James Abu-Zeid
DESCRIPTION:In this hybrid talk/reading\, Kareem James Abu-Zeid will take us on a whirlwind journey through Arab poetry\, using his own recent translations as stopping points. We will begin with what is often considered the very first Arabic text: the pre-Islamic “Hanging Poem” of Imru al-Qays (6th century CE). Following this\, we will take a huge leap forward in time\, with a short reading from the Syrian-born Adonis’s iconoclastic classic from the 1960s\, Songs of Mihyar the Damascene\, often considered the high point of Arab modernist poetry. We will then transition to more contemporary work\, taking the Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish as our focal point. The journey will conclude with a few remarks about Arab diaspora poets in general\, and a poem or two from Olivia Elias\, a contemporary French-language writer of the Palestinian diaspora.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/arab-poetry-through-the-ages-a-journey-in-translation-with-kareem-james-abu-zeid/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210923T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210923T193000
DTSTAMP:20260407T210635
CREATED:20210916T190741Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210916T190741Z
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SUMMARY:BOOK EVENT: Palestine is Throwing a Party and the Whole World is Invited
DESCRIPTION:Join Mezna Qato (University of Cambridge)\, David Harvey (CUNY Graduate Center)\, and Kareem Rabie (University of Illinois\, Chicago) in conversation about Rabie’s new book Palestine is Throwing a Party and the Whole World is Invited (Duke University Press 2021).
URL:https://arablit.org/event/book-event-palestine-is-throwing-a-party-and-the-whole-world-is-invited/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210924T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210924T200000
DTSTAMP:20260407T210635
CREATED:20210914T184151Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210914T184151Z
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SUMMARY:A Talk with Ahmed Naji About His New Book حرز مكمكم
DESCRIPTION:بمناسبة صدور أول كتب دار خان الجنوب: «حرز مكمكم» لأحمد ناجي، يسرنا أن ندوعكم/ن إلى حضور لقاء بين رشا حلوة وأحمد ناجي، يتناقشان فيه عن الكتاب والكثير من الأمور الأخرى في الأدب والسجن والكتابة والقراءة وغيرها من المواضيع…\nسيُقام اللقاء يوم الجمعة، الرابع والعشرون من أيلول/ سبتمبر ٢٠٢١\nالساعة السابعة مساءً بتوقيت برلين والقاهرة\nمكان اللقاء: صفحة خان الجنوب في فيسبوك
URL:https://arablit.org/event/a-talk-with-ahmed-naji-about-his-new-book-%d8%ad%d8%b1%d8%b2-%d9%85%d9%83%d9%85%d9%83%d9%85/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210925T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210925T193000
DTSTAMP:20260407T210635
CREATED:20210722T204320Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210722T204320Z
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SUMMARY:1-Day Translation Workshop: Translating Humor in Contemporary Arabic Literature
DESCRIPTION:Humor is one of the most difficult concepts for any writer or translator to engage with\, and yet undoubtedly the most rewarding when it’s done right. This course encourages you to translate humor from a range of genres in contemporary Arabic literature: memoir\, graphic novel\, short stories\, and young adult literature from across the Arabic speaking world such as Libya\, Lebanon\, Mauritania and Palestine. The framework of the course is based on Arthur Asa Berger’s classification of humor\, which groups over forty techniques into categories such as Identity\, Language\, and Logic. This framework will be explained in the class\, and a brief reading on it will also be provided prior to the workshop. \nIf you’re a translator working from any language into English\, you will be able to apply the techniques learnt to your own craft. If you are a writer seeking some inspiration from other literatures\, this class is also a great fit for you. \nBridge translations (literal translations from a foreign language into English that keep the original word order\, punctuation\, and multiple meanings of the original language) as well as the Arabic originals for each exercise will be provided\, so it’s up to you if you’d like to practice your Arabic reading skills when decoding a joke\, or work entirely relying on the provided English. The choice is yours! \nOutside of a short reading\, there is no homework for this course; students should come to class prepared to do group-work and in-class writing and translating activities. \n*If you’re enrolling in two or more Don’t Translate Alone classes\, email us at classes@catapult.co and we’ll send you a coupon for 15% off each DTA class!\n \nClass meetings will be held over video chat\, using Zoom accessed from your private class page. While you can use Zoom from your browser\, we recommend downloading the desktop client so you have access to all platform features. \nCost: $75 \nCOURSE TAKEAWAYS: \n– Confidence in identifying different types of humor in contemporary Arabic texts \n– Apply techniques learned in class to translated works in any genre \n– Ability to pinpoint what makes a humorous text funny \n– Experience of translating Arabic humorous texts into English \n– 10% discount on all future Catapult classes \nCOURSE EXPECTATIONS: \nBefore class: Students should read the Berger framework (a few pages that will be provided) to understand how we will identify and categorize humor \nDuring class: Lots of groupwork and pairwork. Come prepared to talk (and laugh!) \nSawad Hussain\n\n\n\n\nSawad Hussain is an Arabic translator and litterateur who is passionate about bringing narratives from the African continent to wider audiences. She was co-editor of the Arabic-English portion of the award-winning Oxford Arabic Dictionary (2014). Her work has been recognised by English PEN\, the Anglo-Omani Society and the Palestine Book Awards. She has run workshops with Shadow Heroes\, Africa Writes and Shubbak Festival. She has forthcoming translations from Fitzcarraldo Editions and MacLehose Press. She holds an MA in Modern Arabic Literature from SOAS. Her Twitter handle is @sawadhussain.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/1-day-translation-workshop-translating-humor-in-contemporary-arabic-literature/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210929
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211004
DTSTAMP:20260407T210635
CREATED:20210924T125901Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210924T125901Z
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SUMMARY:Mizna 2021 Arab Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:The fifteenth edition of Mizna’s Twin Cities Arab Film Fest returns to Minneapolis–St. Paul September 29–October 3\, 2021. This year’s fest will be held in a hybrid format\, combining in-person and online film screenings and events. The in-person components of the festival will take place at Trylon Cinema in Minneapolis and virtual screenings will be accessible across the US.\n\n\nFull line-up + tickets are available here\nVirtual and All-Access Passes are available here
URL:https://arablit.org/event/mizna-2021-arab-film-festival/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210929T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210929T203000
DTSTAMP:20260407T210635
CREATED:20210924T124432Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210924T124432Z
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SUMMARY:Translation as Activism: The Political Responsibility of the Translator in the 21st Century
DESCRIPTION:To mark this year’s ITD the Goethe-Institut London is looking at the political responsibilities of the translator in our turbulent times. How can translators take an activist role\, and is it their responsibility to do so? \nTaking part in the discussion are three protagonists whose work reflects on the role of translation in debates surrounding post-colonial literatures\, gender and race\, and their associated power structures. The discussion will be moderated by Charlotte Ryland of the Stephen Spender Trust\, and will feature contributions from Anna von Rath of poco.lit\, Canan Marasligil\, a literary translator\, and Yousif M Qasmiyeh\, Researcher on Refugee Writing at Oxford University. \nThis online event is part of the Goethe-Institut’s Artificially Correct project\, which aims to strengthen the position of translators by developing a conscious approach to Machine Translation\, and promoting awareness of social diversity and inclusion.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/translation-as-activism-the-political-responsibility-of-the-translator-in-the-21st-century/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210930T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210930T200000
DTSTAMP:20260407T210635
CREATED:20210901T114329Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210901T114329Z
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SUMMARY:English PEN's International Translation Day 2021
DESCRIPTION:International Translation Day is back with a day-long\, online programme of events.\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nInternational Translation Day (ITD)\, the largest coming-together of the UK translation community\, is back. \nEvery 30 September\, English PEN hosts a programme of talks\, workshops and networking opportunities for literary translators. Following the success of ITD 2021\, this year’s programme returns in a day-long\, online format. \nITD 2021 is supported by the Booker Prize Foundation and ALCS.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/english-pens-international-translation-day-2021/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210930T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210930T203000
DTSTAMP:20260407T210635
CREATED:20210927T131943Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210927T131943Z
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SUMMARY:Arabic English Translation: Today’s Landscape and Future Horizons
DESCRIPTION:This event\, taking place on International Translation Day\, is for early and mid-career literary translators working from Arabic into English. We will explore the contemporary translation scene and consider where we are heading next. Where does Arabic sit in the world of translated literature? How has the reception of Arabic literature changed in recent years? What trends might affect future possibilities? Moderated by Nariman Youssef\, our expert panellists Marilyn Booth\, M Lynx Qualey\, and Bishan Samaddar will reflect on these questions\, and share their experiences of creating\, commissioning and finding outlets for work in translation. The session is free to attend. \nThis is part 1 of a two-session series looking at trends in literary translation between Arabic and English. Part 2 will focus on the movement of English literature into Arabic.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/arabic-english-translation-todays-landscape-and-future-horizons/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211002T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211002T173000
DTSTAMP:20260407T210635
CREATED:20210926T201817Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210926T201817Z
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SUMMARY:ALITFEST 2021: A Tale of African Novels and Their Publishers
DESCRIPTION:This panel with Sawad Husain and Nana Awere Damoah\, moderated by S. Su’eddie Vershima Agema is part of the Abuja Literary and Arts Festival 2021. It seeks to explore the complexities that exist in the African Novel publishing industry.\nAs we know\, the dream of every African writer is to be published by an international publisher because that’s where you get the big dollars\, the big book deals\, multiple deals\, and funds for marketing and promotions. What this also means is that a lot of African Novels have their rights with international publishers.\nThe question now is:\n– Who owns a lot of our big African novels?\n– And what does this mean long term?\nWe also hope to explore some broader thematic issues of the imbalance of power between the West\, the Global North\, the Global South\, and Africa.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/alitfest-2021-a-tale-of-african-novels-and-their-publishers/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211003T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211003T150000
DTSTAMP:20260407T210635
CREATED:20210902T125603Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210902T125603Z
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SUMMARY:Adabiyat Book Club Discusses: The Ardent Swarm
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URL:https://arablit.org/event/adabiyat-book-club-discusses-the-ardent-swarm/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211007
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211010
DTSTAMP:20260407T210635
CREATED:20210908T113200Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210908T113200Z
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SUMMARY:Arabic Pasts: Histories and Historiographies
DESCRIPTION:Research Workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis annual exploratory and informal workshop offers the opportunity to reflect on history writing in Arabic. This year\, three days of the workshop will be held online and only Day 2 will be in person at the Aga Khan Centre\, London. We hope to welcome newcomers to the workshop and to encourage a lively discussion. The programme is exciting as ever\, with 25 papers treating history writing from the eighth century up to the present.\n\nPapers will elucidate the following sorts of questions:\n\n• What practices (through writing or otherwise) have different groups in the Middle East and North Africa used to encode their past\, and how have they engaged in remembering and forgetting? At different times and places\, how have the significant contours\, events and actors in their histories been seen? Was the significant past the same for court historians as it was for literary historians; for bureaucrats as it was for the military; for Sufis as it was for Muslim lawyers and Traditionists?\n\n• How did non-Muslims and Muslims\, men and women\, adherents of different sectarian or juristic traditions\, or speakers of different languages imagine the shape and meaning of pasts specific to their societal\, cultural\, religious\, linguistic or ethnic group\, in negotiation with the universal history of the Islamic community to which they (may or may not) have belonged?\n\n• How have urban and rural people\, workers and peasants\, the religiously educated and the technocratic elite\, developed different ways of writing\, remembering\, or commemorating particular events in\, or the broad sweep of\, local\, national\, or Islamic history?\n\n• In what ways do educational institutions\, museums\, media organisations and proponents of heritage use history writing in Arabic to shape loyalties and nurture a sense of belonging in the Middle East\, North Africa\, and Europe?\n\nThe following colleagues will chair panels and facilitate conversation:\n\n• James McDougall\, University of Oxford.\n\n• Leif Stenberg\, AKU-ISMC.\n\n• Hugh Kennedy\, SOAS\, University of London.\n\n• Sarah Bowen Savant\, AKU-ISMC.\n\n• Fozia Bora\, University of Leeds.\n\n• Karen Bauer\, The Institute of Ismaili Studies.\n\n• Arezou Azad\, University of Oxford.\n\n• Letizia Osti\, University of Milan.\n\nDate\n\nThe workshop will take place on 7-9 October 2021(London). Download Arabic Pasts schedule.\n\nRegistration\n\nIf you would like to join us online via Zoom\, register here.\n\nIf you would like to join us in person on the 2nd day\, register here.\n\nOrganisers\n\nArabic Pasts is co-organised by Sarah Bowen Savant (AKU-ISMC)\, Hugh Kennedy (SOAS University of London) and James McDougall (University of Oxford).
URL:https://arablit.org/event/arabic-pasts-histories-and-historiographies/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211007T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211007T183000
DTSTAMP:20260407T210635
CREATED:20210924T125427Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210924T125427Z
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SUMMARY:Artists' Talk Series - Fathi Hassan in Conversation with Najlaa El-Ageli
DESCRIPTION:Join this SOAS event for a conversation\, in Arabic with simultaneous translation\, between the Artist Fathi Hassan and curator Najlaa El-Ageli about Fathi’s practice over three decades and across various localities in North Africa and Europe
URL:https://arablit.org/event/artists-talk-series-fathi-hassan-in-conversation-with-najlaa-el-ageli/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211007T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211007T200000
DTSTAMP:20260407T210635
CREATED:20210927T143714Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210927T143714Z
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SUMMARY:TURATH 2021: Arab American Theater
DESCRIPTION:Join this event organized by the Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies for a rich and engaging conversation with Arab American playwrights\, theater actors\, and producers: Kathryn Haddad\, Jamil Khoury\, Lameece Issaq\, and Malek Najjar. This panel discussion and conversation will be moderated by Catherine Coray\, a Professor of Theater at NYU.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/turath-2021-arab-american-theater/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20211008T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20211008T183000
DTSTAMP:20260407T210635
CREATED:20210929T163124Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210929T163124Z
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SUMMARY:Leaving Childhood Behind: A Conversation with Mosab Abu Toha
DESCRIPTION:Part of the Literatures of Annihilation\, Exile & Resistance: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Global Middle East series\, this event will feature Mosab Abu Toha\, Poet and Founder of the Edward Said Public Library in Gaza.\n \nMosab Abu Toha is a Palestinian bilingual poet\, essayist\, and short story writer from Gaza. A graduate in English language\, he taught English at the UNRWA schools in Gaza 2016-2019\, and is the founder of the Edward Said Public Library\, Gaza’s first English language library (now two branches).  In 2019-2020\, Mosab became a visiting poet at Harvard University\, hosted by the Department of Comparative Literature. He is also a columnist for Arrowsmith Press.  Mosab’s poetry\, essays\, and short stories have been or will be published by Poetry\, Solstice\, Banipal\, Periphery\, Harvard Human Rights Review\, Kikah\, Middle East Eye.  In 2020\, Mosab gave talks and poetry readings at the University of Pennsylvania\, Temple University\, the University of Arizona\, and the American Library Association Midwinter Exhibits and Meetings. \nThis conversation will be moderated by Refqa Abu-Remaileh\, Professor of Modern Arabic Literature and Film at the Department of Semitic and Arabic Studies at Freie Universität Berlin and Principal Investigator of the European Research Council (ERC) project “PalREAD-Country of Words” and Alison Rice\, Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies and the Chair of the Romance Languages Department at the University of Notre Dame.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/leaving-childhood-behind-a-conversation-with-mosab-abu-toha/
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20211012T190000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20211012T203000
DTSTAMP:20260407T210635
CREATED:20210920T095648Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210920T095648Z
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SUMMARY:A Paper Trail Across the Lands of Islam
DESCRIPTION:Paper\, perhaps the most common manufactured item in everyday use\, was invented in China over 2\,000 years ago. One thousand years later\, Muslims learned of it after they conquered Central Asia in the early eighth century. They quickly carried it and the techniques of manufacturing it across Eurasia and Northern Africa to the shores of the Atlantic. There\, some 1500 years after its invention\, Europeans started using and manufacturing it themselves. This talk presents the largely-unknown history of paper across the lands of Islam\, revealing how—long before the invention of printing—this remarkable medium transformed Islamic societies in many ways. \nSpeaker: Jonathan Bloom\, Professor Emeritus\, Department of Art\, Art History & Film\, Boston College \nRegister here.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/a-paper-trail-across-the-lands-of-islam/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20211014T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20211014T193000
DTSTAMP:20260407T210635
CREATED:20211006T155046Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211006T155046Z
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SUMMARY:Writing Fiction in the Arab World Today
DESCRIPTION:In the emergence of the novel in Arab literature\, many have claimed to be the first. What makes this literary genre special\, and how has it changed the development of Arab literature? What role does the novel play in the Arab World today? Is there even a role for the novelist? \nAGYA alumnus Bilal Orfali\, Sheikh Zayed Chair for Arabic and Islamic Studies\, interviews the Lebanese novelist Rachid El Daif about current challenges and the future of Arabic novels to find answers to these questions. \nRachid El Daif is a prominent Lebanese writer and intellectual who plays an important role in the development of the modern Arabic Novel. His novels and poetry collections are widely received in Europe\, the USA\, Brazil\, Japan\, and Vietnam. Discussion panels\, critical articles\, scholarly monographs\, and collective works highlight his contribution to modern literature. \nThe conversation will be held in Arabic with simultaneous translation into English. If you want to participate\, please register here.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/writing-fiction-in-the-arab-world-today/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211016T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211016T173000
DTSTAMP:20260407T210635
CREATED:20211013T112918Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211013T112931Z
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SUMMARY:Une heure avec... Najwa Barakat et Lefteris Giannakoudakis
DESCRIPTION:Join this session with writers Najwa Barakat and Lefteris Giannakoudakis at the Institut du Monde Arabe where the two authors will be talking about their latest books. This in-person event will be streamed live via Facebook.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/une-heure-avec-najwa-barakat-et-lefteris-giannakoudakis/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211017T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211017T183000
DTSTAMP:20260407T210635
CREATED:20211015T063738Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211015T063738Z
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SUMMARY:Mizna 22.1 Virtual Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join us in launching the summer 2021 issue of Mizna\, featuring readings by Hassan Saby\, Maya Salameh\, Nardine Taleb and Rania Mamoun. \nThe summer issue of Mizna’s award-winning literary journal\, Mizna: SWANA Literature + Art\, features a dynamic group of authors—many of whom are new to the Mizna community—engaging with and expanding the social realities relevant to the Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) experience and community.  \nIn this issue\, Mizna reveals a change to our subtitle\, now SWANA Literature + Art\, from the previous\, Prose\, Poetry\, and Art Exploring Arab America. This comes as a result of deep\, ongoing internal dialog about decolonizing and being more expansive in the framing of ourselves and our communities. In place of a foreword\, the issue features reflections from Mizna’s community about what the shift to the term SWANA represents.  \nContributors to Mizna 22.1 are: Andrea Abi-Karam\, Philipe AbiYouness\, leena aboutaleb\, Jessica Abughattas\, Sarah Ghazal Ali\, Arwa Alsamarae\, Yasmine Ameli\, Sara Elkamel\, Mariam Gomaa\, Farah Hamade\, Kaleem Hawa\, Nofel\, Nour Kamel\, Rania Mamoun\, Yara Omer\, Hassan Saby\, Lubna Safi\, Maya Salameh\, Nardine Taleb\, Alene Terzian-Zeitounian\, and Sumeja Tulic. The issue also features visual art from renowned Moroccan modernist Mohamed Melehi.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/mizna-22-1-virtual-launch/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20211021T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20211021T100000
DTSTAMP:20260407T210635
CREATED:20211018T103926Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211018T103926Z
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SUMMARY:Frankfurt Book Fair Livestream: Untapped Potential of Arabic Literature
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nThis is how you can attend the event: \nWatch this Frankfurt Studio event free of charge via the livestream at www.buchmesse.de. Fair visitors can watch live on our LED screen at the outdoor viewing area Agora. \n\nFind out more at the Frankfurt Book Fair website.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/frankfurt-book-fair-livestream-untapped-potential-of-arabic-literature/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211021T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211021T180000
DTSTAMP:20260407T210635
CREATED:20210920T182808Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210920T182808Z
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SUMMARY:Book Discussion: 'Guapa' by Saleem Haddad
DESCRIPTION:Join MENAWAPoco’s first Fall 2021 virtual book discussion on Saleem Haddad’s Guapa at 5pm UK time. To participate\, email them at menawapocoreads@gmail.com and follow them on Twitter to see all updates.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/book-discussion-guapa-by-saleem-haddad/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Beirut:20211021T200000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Beirut:20211021T213000
DTSTAMP:20260407T210635
CREATED:20211015T062449Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211015T062449Z
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SUMMARY:SWAYING BODIES: A Conversation with Ahmed Abdul-Halim & Dima Daly
DESCRIPTION:The MENA Prison Forum is pleased to host a discussion of the novella it recently published; “Swaying Bodies\,” by Egyptian researcher and writer Ahmed Abdul-Halim\, with illustrations by Syrian painter Dima Daly. Ahmed Abdul-Halim and Dima Daly will join the discussion\, which will be moderated by Hana Jaber and Mina Ibrahim. \nLanguage: Arabic with English Translation \nPlease register by mail: mina.ibrahim@menaprisonforum.org \nDeadline for registration: Wednesday\, October 20\, 2021 by 11:59 Beirut time. \nAhmad Abdul-Halim\, an Egyptian writer and researcher born in 1995\, wrote “Swaying Bodies” as a description of prison experience. While he claims the work is fictional\, the visceral and sensory descriptions in the text render the reader deeply affected by the conditions described. Abdul-Halim’s words are additionally strengthened due to their accompaniment by illustrations of Syrian activist and painter Dima Daly. Whether this work is one of true fiction or a masquerading testimony of personal experiences\, the reader is shown how prison ordeals indelibly change those who experience them.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/swaying-bodies-a-conversation-with-ahmed-abdul-halim-dima-daly/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211022T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211022T123000
DTSTAMP:20260407T210635
CREATED:20211022T082250Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211022T082250Z
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SUMMARY:Mini Symposium on Arabic Literature in Translation
DESCRIPTION:This mini symposium proposes to investigate modern Arabic literature in translation. The translation of Arabic texts has a complicated history\, incorporating publishers’ reticence to publish translations\, politics\, gender\, as well as difficulties of situating Arabic literature within the all-encompassing world literature. \nWhat gets translated and why? How are we the audience to read what is translated? Do these translations give us insight to Arab society and culture? What is the reception of these works? Why is the novel privileged over other literatures\, e.g. poetry? Is there a cultural reason or a publishers preference and influence? Indeed\, is there a preference for secular novels over religious texts? What is the power dynamic and relationship between these different strands? Our panelists will explore these questions as well as discuss the relationship between publisher and translator; text and translator; the relationship between author and translator.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/mini-symposium-on-arabic-literature-in-translation/
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SUMMARY:Frankfurt Book Fair Livestream: Publishing Arab Literature – Difficulties and Experiences from a Publisher's Perspective
DESCRIPTION:Arabic literature is diverse and has a long history. There are over 400 million Arabic speakers\, yet bringing Arabic literature to the Western market is a challenge. Why is that? Conversely\, which titles and themes particularly spark readers’ interest and sell well? How can Arabic literature be disseminated and which authors are currently worth discovering? And vice versa: which books by non-Arab authors could be introduced to the Arab market? What are and aren’t Arab readers interested in today? \nLena Bopp discusses these and other issues with Rasha al Ameer\, Piero Salabè and Yasmina Jraissati.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/frankfurt-book-fair-livestream-publishing-arab-literature-difficulties-and-experiences-from-a-publishers-perspective/
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