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  • Maya Abu Al-Hayyat & Zeina Hashem Beck | Live Reading + Book Release

    AANM presents a live bilingual poetry reading featuring an incredible lineup of poets: Maya Abu Al-Hayyat and Zeina Hashem Beck. Join us as the poets read excerpts from their new works, exploring themes of language and notions of home. Maya’s translated poems will be orated by Writing Fellows graduate Samer Budair. The talkback will be […]

  • Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller: an online event with Nadia Wassef

    Join an evening with Nadia Wassef to discuss brilliant new memoir CHRONICLES OF A CAIRO BOOKSELLER. Nadia will be in conversation with Will Smith, a bookseller at Sam Read’s, on Bookshop Day! - - - - The streets of Cairo make strange music. The echoing calls to prayer; the raging insults hurled between drivers; the […]

  • afikra Book Club: Sahar Mustafah

    Join us as we interview author, Sahar Mustafah, who authored many books including The Beauty of Your Face, which will be the focus for this Book Club episode. The daughter of immigrants, Sahar Mustafah explores her Palestinian heritage in her writing. She earned her MFA in Fiction from Columbia College where she was a Follett […]

  • AGYA Salon with Muhsin al-Ramli − Iraq, Dreams, and Expression

    The new event series ‘AGYA Literary Salon’ hosts both established and emerging Arab and German authors to discuss their literary careers, visions, and latest works. The Salon especially aims to introduce new literary talents and unknown texts to the public, presenting new thoughts, expressing human values, and providing a source for inspiration. The second Salon […]

  • Zeina Hashem Beck and Farnaz Fatemi reading and in conversation

    Wednesday OCT 12 6:00–7:30 PM PST at The Poetry Center Humanities 512, San Francisco State University co-presented by The Poetry Center and Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies, SF State free and open to the public mask requested to attend in person; or watch via live-stream Zeina Hashem Beck is a Lebanese poet. Her third full-length poetry collection, O, was […]

  • Celebrating less translated languages and literatures: In conversation with Hend Saeed and Mark Baczoni

    Over the last two decades, the term less translated languages has emerged to describe languages that are less often the source of translation in the international exchange of linguistic goods, regardless of the number of people using these languages. These languages have been translated to a much lesser extent, particularly into English. The AALITRA Review […]

  • Hanan Hammad: “Layla Murad, the Jewish-Muslim Star of Egypt”

    Professor Hammad discusses the life and legacy of Layla Murad, one of the most beloved and remembered Arab singing stars in the twentieth century, to analyze politics of sexuality, ethnicity, socio-cultural interaction between Muslims and Jews, and the crucial role popular culture played in constructing an exclusive Arab-Islamic Egyptian identity. Born into a Jewish family […]

  • The Gifts of Movement | Transformative Migrations in the Digital Age: Saïd Khatibi and Amara Lakhous in conversation with Alexander Elinson

    Saïd Khatibi is a novelist, travel writer, translator, and cultural journalist, born in 1984 in Bou Saâda, Algeria. He writes in Arabic and French and translates between both. He has a BA in French Literature from the University of Algiers and an MA in Cultural Studies from the Sorbonne. Sarajevo Firewood is his third novel […]