Writing from the Arabian Gulf: The Common’s Issue 22 Launch
On November 3rd at 4:30pm EDT, join The Common for the virtual launch of Issue 22!
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Events
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afikra Outline: ‘In the Time of the Apricots’ with Carol Sansour
Join Mikey Muhanna as he interviews The Sultan’s Seal coeditor, poet, and author of “In the Time of the Apricots” Carol Sansour on the afikra Outline series.
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Building Other Bodies: A Conversation About Speculative Fiction In Translation, With Mona Kareem
This event is part of the 2021 Hong Kong International Literary Festival and brings together writers and translators of speculative fiction from Taiwan, South Korea, and Kuwait.
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Adabiyat Book Club: Omar El Akkad’s ‘What Strange Paradise’
Join the Adabiyat Book Club for a discussion of Omar El Akkad's novel 'What Strange Paradise'.
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“I Want Sky”: Print Edition Launch + Reading
Join us in launching the print edition of I Want Sky, a collection of writing honoring Sarah Hegazy’s one irreplaceable life, and the lives of all LGBTQ+ Arabs and people of the SWANA region and its diaspora.
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Book Group and Author Visit: Layla AlAmmar – ‘Silence is a Sense’
Romancing the Gothic's open book group is reading 'Silence is a Sense' this week and will be joined by author Layla AlAmmar.
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2021 National Book Awards Finalists Reading
Join the 2021 National Book Award Finalists Reading with Samar Yazbek and Leri Price ("Planet of Clay").
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Jonathan Wright: Change and Continuity in Contemporary Arabic Fiction
Jonathan Wright will draw on his experience as a translator of contemporary Arabic fiction to examine and critique the assumptions that underpin a corpus of literature written in Modern Standard Arabic.
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They cannot be imitated in English: translating the Arabic Impostures of al-Hariri (d. 1122)
In this talk in the "The Middle East in Cambridge Series", Michael Cooperson will discuss his translation of al-Hariri's "Impostures".