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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211130T180000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch + Conversation: Alaa Abd El-Fattah's 'You Have Not Yet Been Defeated'
DESCRIPTION:Prison works that evade characterisation as speculative theory or by-products of praxis are often manuals for revolution\, manuals for survival\, and ultimately manuals for hope. \nTo mark the publication of You Have Not Yet Been Defeated. Selected Works 2011-2021 (Translated by a collective\, foreword by Naomi Klein\, Fitzcarraldo Editions\, 2021) by Alaa Abd El-Fattah\, one of Egypt’s longest imprisoned political activists\, 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. \nHussein Omar is Lecturer in Global History at University College Dublin; Annie Fletcher is Director of the Irish Museum of Modern Art; Seán Hewitt is a poet\, critic and lecturer. His book J.M. Synge: Nature\, Politics\, Modernism was recently published with Oxford University Press (2021); Ronit Lentin is a political sociologist. She has published widely on Palestine and Israel\, racism and immigration in Ireland\, and on gender and genocide. \nThis event takes place as part of Dublin Art Book Fair 2021: Manual\, sponsored by Henry J Lyons and supported by Dublin UNESCO City of Literature.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/book-launch-conversation-alaa-abd-el-fattahs-you-have-not-yet-been-defeated/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211201T193000
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SUMMARY:Translating the Nights with Yasmine Seale
DESCRIPTION: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. \nA cornerstone of world literature and a monument to the power of storytelling\, the Arabian Nights has inspired countless authors\, from Charles Dickens and Edgar Allan Poe to Naguib Mahfouz\, Clarice Lispector\, and Angela Carter. Now\, in this lavishly designed and illustrated edition of The Annotated Arabian Nights the acclaimed literary historian Paulo Lemos Horta and brilliant poet and translator Yasmine Seale present a new selection of tales from the Nights\, featuring treasured original stories as well as later additions including “Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp” and “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves\,” definitively bringing the Nights into the twenty-first century. \nAlthough readers have long been enchanted by the legendary tales\, the English-speaking world has relied on dated translations by Richard Burton\, Edward Lane\, and other nineteenth-century adventurers. Seale’s distinctly contemporary and lyrical translations – working from both Arabic and French sources – break decisively with this masculine dynasty\, stripping away the deliberate exoticism of Orientalist renderings and bringing an urgency to Shahrazad’s voice. \nYasmine Seale is a British-Syrian writer and literary translator. Her essays\, poetry\, visual art\, and translations from Arabic and French have appeared widely — in Harper’s\, the Paris Review\, the Times Literary Supplement\, Apollo and elsewhere. Her first translated book\, Aladdin\, came out from W. W. Norton in 2018. Seale’s work has received a PEN America Literary Grant and the Wasafiri New Writing Prize for Poetry. \n*The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Seale will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nRegistration required. Free and open to the public.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/translating-the-nights-with-yasmine-seale/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211202T210000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211202T220000
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CREATED:20211115T163351Z
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SUMMARY:Bethlehem Cultural Festival: Writing of Palestinian Fiction
DESCRIPTION:How do authors write in English about Palestine? How can they reach a global audience? Ahmed Masoud\, Selma Dabbagh\, Nayrouz Qarmout and Naema Aldaqsha discuss their work from London and Gaza.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/bethlehem-cultural-festival-writing-of-palestinian-fiction/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211203T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211203T140000
DTSTAMP:20260405T175005
CREATED:20210901T114619Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211130T174425Z
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SUMMARY:Gastropolitics\, Gastropoetics: Celebrating Radical Cookbooks
DESCRIPTION:A cookbook is not just a cookbook. Join us for a celebration of five exciting new books that use recipes to revolutionize our relationship to cooking and eating. \nFeaturing: \nSUMAC: Recipes and Stories from Syria by Anas Atassi (2020) \nDECOLONIZE YOUR DIET: Plant-Based Mexican-American Recipes for Health and Healing by Luz Calvo & Catriona Rueda Esquibel (2016) \nARAB FAIRY TALE FEASTS: A Literary Cookbook by Karim Alrawi. Illustrated by Nahid Kazemi. Recipes by Sobhi and Tamam al-Zobaidi & Karim Alwawi (2021) \nThe Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen by Sean Sherman with Beth Dooley (2017) \nEVA PENDAELI’S ORIGINAL TANZANIA COOKBOOK by Eva Pendaeli-Sarakikya (2019) \nConversations will be hosted by Anny Gaul\, M. Lynx Qualey\, Meg Arenberg and Bhakti Shringarpure.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/gastropolitics-gastropoetics-celebrating-radical-cookbooks/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211205T190000
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CREATED:20211117T200659Z
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SUMMARY:Beidth al Tbeet: Deconstructing the political history of an Iraqi Jewish meal
DESCRIPTION:In this workshop\, siblings Sam and Annabel Rabiyah\, will uplift stories of cultural displacement\, untold political memory\, and anti-Zionist resistance through an Iraqi-Jewish lens. The workshop will lead participants through an interactive cooking demonstration for Beidth al Tbeet (“eggs overnight”)\, a dish traditionally served in Iraq for Shabbat brunch. Woven into the cooking demonstration will be a conversation of the political and cultural history of the dish\, and what it means for this Iraqi meal to have been co-opted and rebranded as Israeli fast food. Participants are invited to cook alongside the presenters; you will receive a list of ingredients after registering. There will be time for Q&A and open discussion at the end.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/beidth-al-tbeet-deconstructing-the-political-history-of-an-iraqi-jewish-meal/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211212T130000
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CREATED:20211115T162951Z
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SUMMARY:Adabiyat Book Club: 'The Actual True Story of Ahmed and Zarga' by Mohamedou Ould Slahi
DESCRIPTION:For December\, Adabiyat Book Club is excited to feature a novel from Mauritania: The Actual True Story of Ahmed and Zarga by Mohamedou Ould Slahi and Larry Siems. DM @__adabiyat__ on Twitter or Instagram to join.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/adabiyat-book-club-the-actual-true-story-of-ahmed-and-zarga-by-mohamedou-ould-slahi/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211214
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211218
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CREATED:20211202T074901Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211202T074901Z
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SUMMARY:Trans/Formations of Arabic Literary Theory: Prospects and Limits
DESCRIPTION:Conference hosted by Columbia University’s Arabic Studies Seminar\, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society\, Sheikh Zayed Book Award\, and Brill Academic Publishers \nIn Memory of Jaroslav Stetkevych \nHosted at Columbia University’s Faculty House and available virtually for all. \nA PDF copy of the program is linked here. Registration links for all talks and panels can be found here. \nSpeakers and panelists include Muhsin J. al-Musawi\, Choukri Mabkhout\, Michael Sells\, Roger Allen\, Tahera Qutbuddin\, Bilal Orfali\, Emily Drumsta\, Wen-Chin Ouyang\, and Suzanne Stetkevych\, among many others.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/trans-formations-of-arabic-literary-theory-prospects-and-limits/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211216T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211216T120000
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CREATED:20211210T075209Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211210T075209Z
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SUMMARY:New Frontiers for Arabic Literature & Translation
DESCRIPTION:This special event taking place as part of the Dubai Expo is for literary translators\, publishers\, writers and other professionals involved in Arabic literature and translation. \nExpert speakers from the UK and the UAE will explore and analyse the contemporary translation scene from a range of international and professional perspectives. Publishers and literature professionals involved in translation from Arabic into English and English into Arabic will offer insight into the opportunities and challenges they face in platforming new work and reaching their readerships. \nWe will examine the opportunities for Arabic literature in translation in the publishing marketplace\, consider the challenges faced by practitioners when seeking outlets for their work\, and examine how developmental models can both support translators in their creative practice and open up professional networks. The speakers will reflect on recent changes in how Arabic literature is received\, celebrated and platformed\, and consider where current trends may lead us in the years to come. \nThe panel is divided into two parts: The Business of Translation and Nurturing a Developmental Landscape. \nPart 1: The Business of Translation  \nModerated by Sawad Hussain (in-person) \nSpeakers: \n– Ahmed Al Ali\, Managing Editor\, Kalimat \n– Juliet Mabey\, Publisher\, Oneworld Publications (remote) \n– Mayada Ibrahim\, Translator (remote) \nBreak  \nPart 2: Nurturing a Developmental Landscape  \nModerated by Sawad Hussain (in-person) \nSpeakers: \n– Ahlam Balooki\, Director\, Emirates Airline Festival of Literature (in-person) \n– Najwa Bin Shatwan\, Writer (in person) \n– Katharine Halls\, Translator (remote) \n– Will Mackie\, Senior Programme Manager\, New Writing North (remote speaker) \nRead more about the speakers here.  \n  \nThis event will be of interest to students\, translators\, academics\, curators\, cultural policy makers\, and anyone with an interest in the business of how literature travels from one language to another. \nThis event has been curated by New Writing North\, a UK-based literature development agency\, working with the British Council. The event is funded by the British Council.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/new-frontiers-for-arabic-literature-translation/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211216T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211216T200000
DTSTAMP:20260405T175005
CREATED:20211216T093648Z
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SUMMARY:What Does It Take to Translate the Intangible?
DESCRIPTION:Much of what translators work on doesn’t involve “meaning” in the dictionary sense. How do practitioners handle intangibles like rhyme\, alliteration and assonance\, naturalness\, concision\, and other elements of both poetic and prose texts? The lyrical force and emotional impact of many texts require acrobatic feats to successfully exist in multiple languages. Kareem James Abu-Zeid and Alta L. Price will explore approaches to prioritizing what’s most important when honing the vision for your translation. \nThe Literary Translation Clinics are held monthly and hosted by members of the translator collective\, Cedilla & Co. Each one-hour clinic will feature a presentation or conversation followed by a Q&A. Attendees are encouraged to bring questions from their own practice.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/what-does-it-take-to-translate-the-intangible/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211218T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211218T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T175005
CREATED:20211210T074730Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211210T074730Z
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SUMMARY:EVE — A Poetry Performance Project by Fargo Tbakhi and George Abraham
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of poetry and performance art with Fargo Tbakhi and George Abraham! This event will showcase work from the local community\, featuring work composed in George and Fargo’s Exploring Poetry through Performance Workshop. Thereafter\, Fargo and George will perform\, for the first time ever\, an excerpt from their residency project: EVE — A Palestinian Necropastoral\, a re-imagining of Milton’s Paradise Lost through the lens of Palestinian liberation. \nThis is a hybrid performance. In-person participants will attend at The Annex @ AANM and virtual participants will attend via online livestream. All AANM guests are required to show proof of full vaccination\, remain masked\, and fill out a health screening form upon check-in in order to attend this event. \nFor questions\, e-mail Kathryn Grabowski at KGrabowski@accesscommunity.org. \n  \nFargo Nissim Tbakhi is a queer Palestinian American performance artist and writer. He is the winner of the Ghassan Kanafani Resistance Arts Prize\, a Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee\, and a Taurus. He has received fellowships from Rhizome DC\, VisArts\, Desert Nights Rising Stars\, Halcyon Arts Lab\, Mosaic Theater\, and RAWI. His writing appears in Foglifter\, Mizna\, Peach Mag\, Apex Magazine\, Strange Horizons\, the Shallow Ends\, Prolit\, and select bags of Nomadic Grounds Coffee. His performance work has been programmed at OUTsider Fest\, INTER-SECTION Solo Fest\, the Rachel Corrie Foundation’s Shuruq Festival\, the Alwun House Monster’s Ball\, Mosaic Theater\, and has been supported by the Arizona Commission on the Arts. \nGeorge Abraham is a Palestinian American poet\, writer\, and engineer who was born and raised on unceded Timucuan lands (Jacksonville\, FL). His debut poetry collection Birthright (Button Poetry) won the Arab American Book Award and the Big Other Book Award\, and was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. He is a board member for the Radius of Arab American Writers\, and recipient of fellowships from The Boston Foundation\, and Kundiman. His poetry and nonfiction have appeared in The Nation\, The Paris Review\, The American Poetry Review\, Mizna\, and elsewhere. A graduate of Swarthmore College and Harvard University\, Abraham is currently a Litowitz MFA+MA Candidate in poetry at Northwestern University.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/eve-a-poetry-performance-project-by-fargo-tbakhi-and-george-abraham/
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Qatar:20211222T170000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Qatar:20211222T183000
DTSTAMP:20260405T175005
CREATED:20211207T184850Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211207T184850Z
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion: Arab Immigrants and the American Dream
DESCRIPTION:To celebrate the Qatar-United States Year of Culture 2021\, Qatar National Library will host the exhibition “Arab Immigrants in the US: Pursuing the American Dream”\, which deals with the history of Arab immigrants to the US in several different areas. In this panel discussion\, which is held on the sidelines of the Exhibition\, our speakers will highlight several important contexts of Arab-American history: history and characteristics of immigration\, Arab and American culture and integration between them\, and Arab-American literature and its importance in reflecting the actual conditions of Arab society in the U.S. \nPanel moderator: Maryam Almutawa\, Head of Collection Access\, Distinctive Collections\, Qatar National Library \nSpeakers: \nDr. Akram Khater\, Professor of History\, North Carolina State University\, Director of the Khayrallah Center of Lebanese Diaspora Studies \nDr. Wail S. Hassan Director\, Professor of Comparative Literature and English\, University of Illinois\, Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies \nLaila Lalami\, Arab-American novelist \nThe event will be conducted online via Zoom. \nDate: 22 December 2021 \nTime: 5:00 – 6:30 PM \nLanguage: Arabic with simultaneous interpretation in English
URL:https://arablit.org/event/panel-discussion-arab-immigrants-and-the-american-dream/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211227T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211227T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T175005
CREATED:20211209T065316Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211209T065316Z
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SUMMARY:YouTube Livestream with Kevin Blankinship on Classical Arabic Poetry
DESCRIPTION:As part of their series on classical Arabic poetry\, the Abbasid History Podcast will host a YouTube livestream with Dr. Kevin Blankinship on December 27th.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/youtube-livestream-with-kevin-blankinship-on-classical-arabic-poetry/
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Amman:20220102T193000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Amman:20220102T203000
DTSTAMP:20260405T175005
CREATED:20211210T083638Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211210T083638Z
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SUMMARY:BAHR: New Page // صفحة جديدة
DESCRIPTION:A night of poetry\, art\, & ~good vibes~ to celebrate the new year // أمسية فن وشعر وأجواء لطيفة احتفالاً بالسنة الجديدة\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for our first ever online reading to celebrate the fresh start of a new year with a festive evening full of poems and performances led by our very own past contributors. \nIf you’d also like to sign up to perform please email bahrmag@gmail.com to get a spot on our reading list for the night! \nThe event will start at 7:30PM Amman time. \nWe hope that you’ll come along and share your time with us. Help us celebrate our contributors and rejoice in your work too. \nWe’ll see you then. \n  \nانضموا إلينا لنحتفل بالسنة الجديدة خلال أمسية مليئة بالفن والشعر وعروض يقودوها مساهميننا السابقين! هذه أول فعالية من هذا النوع لدى منصتنا ويشرفنا انضمامكم إليها. \nإن أردتم الأداء والمشاركة في الأمسية، نرجو التواصل معنا على bahrmag@gmail.com كي نحجز لكم مكان على قائمة القراء. \nسيبدأ الاحتفال على الساعة 7:30 في توقيت عمّان. \nنأمل بأن تشاركونا أمسيتنا وتساعدونا لنحتفل بمساهميننا الرائعين ولنفرح بإبداعكم أيضاً. \nنراكم وقتئذ.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/bahr-new-page-%d8%b5%d9%81%d8%ad%d8%a9-%d8%ac%d8%af%d9%8a%d8%af%d8%a9/
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Beirut:20220105T190000
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SUMMARY:afikra Book Club: Poet Safia Elhillo
DESCRIPTION:Join this interview with poet Safia Elhillo on her book Home is Not a Country as part of the afikra Book Club series.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/afikra-book-club-safia-elhillo/
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Cairo:20220111T190000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Cairo:20220111T200000
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CREATED:20220103T090239Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: "I Do Not Sleep" By Ihsan Abdel Kouddous\, tr. Jonathan Smolin
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion of “I Do Not Sleep”\, by the late Egyptian master writer Ihsan Abdel Kouddous (Hoopoe\, January 2022)\, with the translator Jonathan Smolin\, Marcia Lynx Qualey (ArabLit editor\, blogger\, translator\, and literary critic)\, and Sharif Abdel Kouddous (independent journalist and grandson of Ihsan Abdel Kouddous). \nThis special online event is sponsored by AUC Press to celebrate the publication of I Do Not Sleep\, now for the first time available in English.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/virtual-book-talk-i-do-not-sleep-by-ihsan-abdel-kouddous-tr-jonathan-smolin/
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Beirut:20220113T190000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Beirut:20220113T200000
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SUMMARY:afikra Conversations: Translator Roger Allen
DESCRIPTION:Join this interview with translator and scholar of Arabic literature Roger Allen as part of the afikra Conversations series. \nBio: Roger Allen obtained his doctoral degree in modern Arabic literature from Oxford University in 1968\, the first student to obtain a doctoral degree in that field at Oxford\, under the supervision of Dr. M.M. Badawi. The topic of the dissertation was a study (and English translation) of Muhammad al-Muwaylihi’s renowned narrative\, Hadith `Isa ibn Hisham (`Isa Ibn Hisham’s Tale); it was later published in book form as A Period of Time. In the late 1960s Roger Allen began to concentrate his research on modern Arabic fiction. He began by translating a collection of short stories by Naguib Mahfouz\, God’s World\, that being the collection mentioned in the published citation of the Nobel Literature Prize Committee in 1988. His research interests have focused on a number of issues within the broader field of Arabic literature: the problems of evaluation of literary works within the complexities of a post-colonial situation; the urgent need to rewrite the literary history of most regions of the Arab world to reflect new understandings concerning the relative significance of different cultural trends; and the status of the fictional genres in the Arab world in the new era of alternative means of publication and indeed new “media”.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/afikra-conversations-translator-roger-allen/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220116T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220116T140000
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CREATED:20211215T074026Z
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SUMMARY:Adabiyat Book Club: "Bride of the Sea" by Eman Quotah
DESCRIPTION:Join Adabiyat’s January 2022 virtual book club! They will be discussing Saudi-American author Eman Quotah’s novel Bride of the Sea on January 16 at 1 pm EST. \nDM them on Twitter or Instagram to join.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/adabiyat-book-club-bride-of-the-sea-by-eman-quotah/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220118T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220118T173000
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CREATED:20220114T074605Z
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SUMMARY:We Wrote in Symbols: Reclaiming\, Restoring\, and Representing Arab Women Narratives
DESCRIPTION:We Wrote in Symbols masterfully celebrates the works of 75 female writers of Arab heritage who articulate love and lust with artistry and skill. This unique anthology includes short stories\, novel excerpts\, and poetry from the classical period to the modern day. As an edited collection centered on the topics of desire\, agency\, and gender\, We Wrote in Symbols: Love and Lust by Arab Women Writers is considered ground-breaking and one of the first of its kind. \nPanelists Selma Dabbagh\, Lynn Gaspard\, and M Lynx Qualey will discuss their different perspectives and contributions in the literary sphere\, with special reference to their involvement with We Wrote in Symbols. They will also share their thoughts on how Arab women’s creative voices can be nourished and strengthened by reshaping a tradition of literature not often spotlighted.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/we-wrote-in-symbols-reclaiming-restoring-and-representing-arab-women-narratives/
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Beirut:20220119T190000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Beirut:20220119T200000
DTSTAMP:20260405T175005
CREATED:20211207T145550Z
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SUMMARY:afikra Matbakh: Food Historian Charles Perry
DESCRIPTION:Join this interview with food historian Charles Perry on the afikra Matbakh series. \nBorn in LA\, Charles Perry is known as one of world’s foremost experts on medieval Arabic cuisine\, having majored in Middle Eastern studies at Princeton and then UC\, Berkeley\, and having spent a year studying Arabic in Shemlan\, Lebanon\, in the early ‘60s\, giving him his first real taste of the region and its food. He became a food writer for the Los Angeles Times\, and in 2005 Perry translated from Arabic A Baghdad Cookery Book\, also known as Al-Baghdadi’s Kitab al-Tabikh\, the only medieval Arabic cookbook known to the English-speaking world.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/afikra-matbakh-food-historian-charles-perry/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220120
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220205
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CREATED:20220118T073954Z
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SUMMARY:Syrian Arts and Culture Festival 2022
DESCRIPTION:SACF is a multidisciplinary arts festival showcasing Syria’s vibrant arts and culture. Our curated multi-disciplinary programme of events offers a creative collision of film\, music\, performance\, visual arts and talks. The festival brings together established alongside emerging artists\, filmmakers\, performers\, and musicians to offer London audiences alternative narratives and perspectives on Syria\, its people\, and culture. \nThis year’s inaugural festival offers a platform to showcase a rich and exciting body of artistic output and creative expression that sheds light on Syria’s historical\, economic\, social\, political and cultural specificities. It presents a multitude of entry points through which to approach and reflect on present-day Syria\, pitting the richness and diversity of Syria\, along with its local intricacies\, against the uniformity portrayed by the global media and its images. Such an assemblage of works then necessarily points towards the plurality of the people and modes of existence that have constituted the formation of Syria since its independence in 1946. \nCheck out the full programme\, including some online events\, here.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/syrian-arts-and-culture-festival-2022/
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Beirut:20220120T190000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Beirut:20220120T200000
DTSTAMP:20260405T175005
CREATED:20211207T145926Z
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SUMMARY:afikra Conversations: Poet Naomi Shihab Nye
DESCRIPTION:Join this interview with poet Naomi Shihab Nye for the afikra Conversations series. \nNaomi Shihab Nye is the daughter of a Palestinian father and an American mother. Nye’s experience of both cultural difference and different cultures has influenced much of her work. Nye is considered one of the leading female poets of the American Southwest. After the World Trade Center attacks in 2001\, Nye became an active voice for Arab Americans\, speaking out against both terrorism and prejudice. The lack of understanding between Americans and Arabs led her to collect poems she had written which dealt with the Middle East and her experiences as an Arab American into one volume. 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East (2002) was a finalist for the National Book Award. Nye is the recipient of numerous honors and awards for her work\, including the Ivan Sandrof Award for Lifetime Achievement from the National Book Critics Circle\, the Lavan Award\, the Paterson Poetry Prize\, the Carity Randall Prize\, the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award\, the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry award\, the Robert Creeley Prize\, and many Pushcart Prizes.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/afikra-conversations-poet-naomi-shihab-nye/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220120T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220120T200000
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SUMMARY:Reading the Arabian Nights
DESCRIPTION:Writers\, translators\, and artists celebrate the most famous story collection of all time. \nFeaturing: \n\nYasmine Seale\nPaulo Lemos Horta\nS. A. Chakraborty\nElias Muhanna\nMarjan Neshat\n\n  \nA cornerstone of world literature and a monument to the power of storytelling\, the Arabian Nights has inspired countless authors\, from Charles Dickens and Edgar Allen Poe to Naguib Mahfouz\, Clarice Lispector\, and Angela Carter. In their extensive new collection\, The Annotated Arabian Nights\, literary historian Paulo Lemos Horta and poet and translator Yasmine Seale present a fresh selection of tales from the Nights. Featuring treasured original stories as well as later additions including “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves\,” the collection definitively brings the Nights out of Victorian antiquarianism and into the 21st century. \nElias Muhanna\, New Yorker writer and a scholar of classical Arabic Literature\, speaks with Horta\, Seale\, and speculative fiction writer S. A. Chakraborty about the beloved story collection. Plus\, a special reading by actor Marjan Neshat.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/reading-the-arabian-nights/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220122T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220122T180000
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SUMMARY:'REFUSE TO BE ERASED': Launching the FOLK issue of ArabLit Quarterly
DESCRIPTION:Guest editor Ali Al-Jamri will host “Refuse to be erased: Readings and conversation from ALQ FOLK issue.” \nJoin us as we celebrate the publication of ArabLit Quarterly: FOLK\, the latest issue from ALQ. The double-issue features essays\, prose and poetry in translation from across the Arab World. The biggest issue of ALQ yet features pre-Islamic myths of the women of Al-Yamama\, journeys through Bahraini village folklore and history\, memories of Makkan children songs\, love poetry from Mamluk Cairo and queerplatonic retellings of a Palestinian folkstory. \nThe issue\, the latest from ArabLit\, is a celebration of stories and poetry that are oral\, anti-professional\, transgressive\, strange\, and fantastical. In it\, the ordinary and extraordinary people at the margins\, as Alaa Murad writes\, “refuse to be erased.” \nJoin us to hear from Zainab Almahdi\, Eman Quotah\, Alaa Murad\, and more as we read excerpts of poetry\, prose and essays and discuss how these folk stories and songs\, both old and now\, form a whole tapestry. \nWatching the Event \nThe event will broadcast out to our YouTube channel\, where you can join. After registration\, a YouTube link will be sent by email on the day\, and placed on this page. \nThe event is free to attend. ArabLit Quarterly is a small operation\, and every bit helps. Please support us by purchasing a copy or subscription of ArabLit Quarterly. \nFind Out More \nYou can read the introduction to FOLK by editors M Lynx Qualey and Ali Al-Jamri. \nRead one of the short stories in the issue\, Yahia Al-Tahir Abdullah’s “Death in Three Portraits”\, translated by Salma Harland. \nYou can purchase a copy of FOLK to read along on the evening from Gumroad. Physical and digital options are both available.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/refuse-to-be-erased-launching-the-folk-issue-of-arablit-quarterly/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220126T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220126T193000
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SUMMARY:Banipal Book Club: 'The Girl With Braided Hair' by Rasha Adly
DESCRIPTION:The book under discussion is Rasha Adly’s The Girl With Braided Hair\, tr. Sarah Enany\, published by Hoopoe Fiction\, and the winner of the 2021 Saif Gobash Banipal Prize. \nAll are welcome\, just email bookclub@banipal.co.uk to receive the Zoom login details.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/banipal-book-club-the-girl-with-braided-hair-by-rasha-adly/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220127T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220127T183000
DTSTAMP:20260405T175005
CREATED:20220112T160527Z
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SUMMARY:Roundtable: The role of translation from and into Arabic in the dissemination of knowledge in the sciences
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Languages and Intercultural Studies at Heriot-Watt University invites you to celebrate International Arabic Day by joining our roundtable focusing on the role of translation from and into Arabic in the dissemination of knowledge in the sciences \nThis event is organised by Dr Khadidja Merakchi and Ms Fanny Chouc who have the pleasure to host\, virtually\, the following distinguished speakers: \nDr Ali Almanaa\, Associate professor\, Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies\, College of Humanities and Social Sciences\, Hamad Bin Khalifa University\, Qatar; \nMr Driss Aboulhoucine\, Coordinator\, Translation and Interpretation Services\, World Health Organisation\, Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean\, Egypt; \nDr Fayza El-Kacem\, Professor in Translation Studies\, Ecole Supérieure de l’Interprétariat et de la Traduction\, Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle\, Paris 3\, France ; \nDr Layla Al Musawi\, Program manager for Publicizing and Dissemination of Science and Technology\, Scientific Culture Directorate\, Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences\, Kuwait; \nDr Mohammad Al Refaei\, Resident Physician\, Internal Medicine at Aleppo University Hospital\, Syria\, Science Writer at Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences; \nMr Nawaar Sobh\, Translator and editor\, Altaqa.net\, Syria; \nDr Rana Dajani\, Professor at the Hashemite University\, Jordan\, President of the Society for Advancement of Science and Technology in the Arab World. \nTranslation has played and continues to play a pivotal role in the dissemination of scientific knowledge. One of the greatest examples is the translation movement from Latin and Ancient Greek into Arabic and from Arabic into other European languages which played an undeniable role in the development of the sciences geographically in Europe and historically in the Renaissance era (Montgomery 2000\, Salama-Carr 1990\, 2009). It is also widely recognised that translation from European languages\, mainly French\, as a global lingua franca\, into Arabic\, at the beginning of the 19th century played a similar role in the Arabic renaissance (Al-Nahda) in the Arab-speaking world. \nOn this International Arabic Day\, we would like to reflect on the role of translation in knowledge dissemination and highlight the role of translation from and into Arabic in disseminating and cross-fertilising scientific knowledge. We would like also to acknowledge the impact of this translation activity in enriching the Arabic language. \nOur speakers are invited to share their knowledge and personal experiences concerning the impact of translation from and into Arabic in the dissemination of science and in enriching the Arabic language. \nInterpreting services available in Arabic\, BSL\, English\, French and Spanish.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/roundtable-the-role-of-translation-from-and-into-arabic-in-the-dissemination-of-knowledge-in-the-sciences/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20220127T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20220127T200000
DTSTAMP:20260405T175005
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SUMMARY:Translation Talks: Khaled Mattawa and Sarah Riggs
DESCRIPTION:The Griffin Poetry Prize is excited to launch Translation Talks\, a series of conversations about translation and poetry where shortlisted and winning authors are invited to discuss their craft in company of other poets and translators. \nJoin us on Thursday\, January 27th at 7pm ET on Zoom for our first Translation Talks\, featuring Khaled Mattawa in conversation with Sarah Riggs. \nKhaled Mattawa was a finalist for the 2017 International Griffin Poetry Prize for his translation of Adonis: Selected Poems (Yale University Press\, 2016). Sarah Riggs was the 2020 International Griffin Poetry Prize winner for her translation of Etel Adnan’s Time (Nightboat Books\, 2019). \nKhaled Mattawa is assistant professor of language and literature at the University of Michigan. Born in Benghazi\, Libya\, he emigrated to the United States as a teenager. He is the author of several books of poetry\, including Tocqueville (New Issues Poetry & Prose\, 2010)\, and has translated numerous volumes of Arab poetry\, including Adonis’s Concerto al-Quds (Yale University Press\, 2017)\, Shepherd of Solitude: Selected Poems of Amjad Nasser (Banipal Books\, 2009)\, and Miracle Maker: Selected Poems of Fadhil Al-Azzawi (Boa Editions\, 2003). Mattawa has been awarded several Pushcart Prizes and the PEN Award for Literary Translation\, in addition to a translation grant from the National Endowment for the Arts\, a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship\, the Alfred Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University\, and a MacArthur fellowship. He served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 2014 to 2020. \nSarah Riggs is a poet\, author most recently of a collection of letter poems\, The Nerve Epistle (Roof Books\, 2021\, New York) and of Murmurations (Apic\, 2021\, Algeria). Riggs received a 1913 Poetry Prize for her poetry book Pomme & Granite\, as well as the 2020 International Griffin Poetry Prize for Etel Adnan’s Time (Nightboat Books\, 2019) which she translated from the French. Riggs’ drawings\, paintings and films have been shown internationally\, including in France and the U.S.\, where she has lived\, in Montreal where her mother is from\, and in Morocco\, where her life partner Omar Berrada is from. Together in 2004\, Riggs and Berrada founded Tamaas\, which means “contact” in Arabic\, an international arts organization with a focus on earth arts justice which runs an annual poetry translation seminar and publication\, as well as the podcast Invitation to the Species\, projects through art\, dance\, and poetry\, and is currently producing Alystyre Julian’s film Outrider on and with poet and performer Anne Waldman. Find out more at tamaas.org and on Riggs’ website www.sarahriggs.org. \nThe event will run for approximately one hour on Zoom and will be hosted by Griffin Poetry Prize social media director Mirene Arsanios and editorial director Adriana Oniță. You will receive the Zoom link after registering.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/translation-talks-khaled-mattawa-and-sarah-riggs/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220127T210000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220127T220000
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CREATED:20211221T143406Z
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SUMMARY:Jonathan Smolin + Alaa Al Aswany discuss "I Do Not Sleep"
DESCRIPTION:Jonathan Smolin and Alaa Al Aswany discuss (the late) Ihsan Abdel Kouddous’ novel\, “I Do Not Sleep”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIhsan Abdel Kouddous (1919-1990) was an iconic\, hugely important writer in Egypt and beyond\, during his lifetime and beyond. The author of numerous major novels\, his work has been too little known in English and to readers here. Thanks to translator Jonathan Smolin\, professor of Asian Studies at Dartmouth and translator from the Arabic of other such writers as Abdelilah Hamdouchi and Youssef Fadel\, his work is now more readily available\, this in the form of I Do Not Sleep (American University of Cairo Press)\, a sixty-year-old novel which shocked readers when it first appeared in the 1950s. Betrayal\, desire\, and family drama are all part of this\, the narrative being in the form of a letter written by a central protagonist. “What sets Ihsan Abdel Kouddous apart is his ability to combine\, on the page\, the different overlapping threads of politics and society.”―Al-Shorouk. \nSlated to be with Jonathan Smolin to discuss I Do Not Sleep is Alaa Al Aswany\, one of the most acclaimed writers – Egyptian and otherwise – working today. His novels include The Yacoubian Building\, Chicago\, and\, most recently\, The Automobile Club of Egypt.​​ The recipient of numerous international literary awards\, he has had his books translated into over thirty languages. . \nAbdel Kouddous’s masterpiece\, لا أنام\, was adapted into a classic of Egyptian cinema in 1957\, and its publication for the first time in English as I Do Not Sleep\, translated by Jonathan Smolin (published by Hoopoe/AUC Press) is an international publishing event. \nJonathan Smolin is the Jane and Raphael Bernstein Professor in Asian Studies at Dartmouth College in the US. He is the author of Moroccan Noir: Police\, Crime\, and Politics in Popular Culture (2013)\, and the translator of several works of Arabic fiction. He lives in Hanover\, NH.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/jonathan-smolin-alaa-al-aswany-discuss-i-do-not-sleep/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220128T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220128T150000
DTSTAMP:20260405T175005
CREATED:20220120T073820Z
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SUMMARY:Adab Colloquium: Desire and the Diseases of Translation: The Metaphorology of Civilization in 'Alas\, I am Not a European'
DESCRIPTION:How can notions of civilization and identity help us think about the politics of literature in the Nahda? This paper tackles Khalil al-Khūri’s definition of civilization (tamaddun) as an untranslatable element of the social body whose corruption threatens its own reproduction\, and considers the implications of al-Khūri’s understanding of tamaddun for Arab literary and intellectual history. \nLearn more about the Adab Colloquium at MEI here. \nIf you are interested in attending this event please RSVP here.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/adab-colloquium-desire-and-the-diseases-of-translation-the-metaphorology-of-civilization-in-alas-i-am-not-a-european/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220128T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220128T183000
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CREATED:20220103T073406Z
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SUMMARY:The Madman of Freedom Square: Hassan Blasim and Jonathan Wright in Conversation With Amir Ahmadi Arian and Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
DESCRIPTION:Hassan Blasim (b. 1973) is an Iraqi writer\, poet\, and filmmaker who is currently living in Helsinki\, Finland. Born in Baghdad\, he studied at the city’s Academy of Cinematic Arts where two of his screenplays won the Academy’s Festival Prize for Best Work. In 1998 he was advised by his tutors to leave Baghdad\, since the political and critical nature of his films was drawing attention from Saddam’s informants at the Academy. After fleeing and travelling through Europe as a refugee\, he settled in Finland in 2004. His debut collection of short stories\, The Madman of Freedom Square (Comma Press\, 2009)\, was longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2010. His second collection\, The Iraqi Christ (Comma Press\, 2013)\, won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2014.  Blasim’s writing has been translated into over 20 languages to date. He has been described by the Guardian as “perhaps the greatest writer of Arab fiction alive”. His debut novel\, Allah99\, was published in 2020. \nJonathan Wright studied Arabic\, Turkish\, and Islamic history at St. John’s College\, Oxford University. Between 1980 and 2009 he worked for Reuters news agency\, mainly in the Middle East. He began literary translation in 2008 and has since translated about a dozen novels\, as well as collections of short stories\, essays\, and poetry. He won the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation twice\, for  The Bamboo Stalk  by Kuwaiti writer Saud al-Sanoussi and  Azazeel  by Egyptian writer Youssef Ziedan\, as well as the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2014 for his translation of  The Iraqi Christ by Hassan Blasim. His latest literary translations include Jokes for the Gunmen\, short stories by Mazen Maarouf\, and  Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi\, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2018. \nThis conversation will be moderated by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi\, Director of Creative Writing at the University of Notre Dame\, and Amir Ahmadi Arian\, Visiting faculty of City College\, New York. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Archives of the Disappeared Research Seminar at the University of Cambridge and the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/the-madman-of-freedom-square-hassan-blasim-and-jonathan-wright-in-conversation-with-amir-ahmadi-arian-and-azareen-van-der-vliet-oloomi/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220128T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220128T190000
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SUMMARY:Listen to the Mourners: The Essential Poems of Nāzik al-Malā'ika
DESCRIPTION:‘Abdulwāḥid Lu’lu’a is discussing Nāzik Al-Malā’ika’s poems on 1/28\, 6:00pm–7:00pm GMT\, from Cambridge. \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83547890773?pwd=aVcxTTU5Nk02dGQxeXZrTi8zM3Zndz09&fbclid=IwAR0HCOMqcquriLLG5VeXmuQvbuSBlM3mDZzJUsA9P9IIkvN7ORqJyzn8Sk4#success
URL:https://arablit.org/event/listen-to-the-mourners/
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