2022 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation
Celebrate the 2022 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation. Join Banipal online for an evening of inspiration and recognition!
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Literary translation: reading between the lines
In this 2½ hour workshop, critically-acclaimed literary translator Rosalind Harvey will teach you the nuts and bolts of the industry and give you the opportunity to take part in a creative translation exercise.
£80
afikra Conversations: Writer & Literary Translator Yasmine Seale
Join afikra as they interview British-Syrian Writer and Literary Translator Yasmine Seale on their Conversations series. Seale's reviews and essays on literature, art, myth, archaeology and film have appeared widely, including in Harper’s, The Paris Review, The Nation, frieze, The TLS, Apollo, 4Columns, and the London Review of Books blog. Her
Adab Colloquium: Who Was a Good Poet in Sixteenth Century Damascus?
With ALQ contributor Haci Osman Gündüz (Ozzy)! Biographical dictionaries often also served as anthologies with—at times—detailed analyses of poetry and literary aesthetics. One such work is Ibn Ayyūb al-Anṣārī’s (d. 1003/1595) Kitāb al-rawḍ al- ʿāṭir which is an indispensable resource on major Damascene figures of the sixteenth century. This talk
MENAWA Reading Group March 2023: Haji Jabir’s ‘Black Foam’
MENAWA will be back March 16th to chat about Haji Jabir's IPAF-nominated BLACK FOAM We'll be joined for a Q&A by the novel's co-translator, Marcia Lynx Qualey! Email menawapocoreads@gmail.com for details.
TMR Conversations: Raja Shehadeh & Amal Ghandour
Amal Ghandour, author of This Arab Life, interviews Palestinian attorney and author Raja Shehadeh about his latest book, a memoir. Palestinian attorney Raja Shehadeh, author most recently of We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir, will discuss his latest work, along with such previous books
Feminist Revolutions with Yasmin El-Rifae at Lighthouse Bookshop Edinburgh (online)
Please note that this is an online-only event. We're over the moon to be welcoming journalist Yasmin El-Rifae with her book Radius: A Story of Feminist Revolution, a haunting and intimate account of the women and men who formed Opantish—Operation Anti-Sexual Harassment - in the middle of the Arab Spring.
Adabiyat Book Club: ‘The Disappearance of Mr. Nobody’ by Ahmed Taibaoui
Adabiyat's virtual book club will be reading Ahmed Taibaoui's The Disappearance of Mr. Nobody, translated by Jonathan Wright in March 2023. Read an extract here: https://tinyurl.com/2pnp4vr5 It is a raw, lyrical portrait of life on the margins in contemporary Algiers. DM @__adabiyat__ on Twitter or Instagram to join in!
Adab Colloquium: The Maqāmāt of Badīʿ al-Zamān al-Hamadhānī: Authorship, Texts, and Contexts
Join the Adab Colloquium for a book talk with Bilal Orfali and Maurice A. Pomerantz moderated by Sara bin Tyeer and Matthew Keegan. Book Description: Through investigations of the manuscripts, this book explores important aspects of the life of Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadhani's maqamat. Relying solely on the flawed nineteenth century
International Book Club with ArabLit and Alice Guthrie: Malika Moustadraf’s ‘Something Strange, Like Hunger’
Organized by The Translation Exchange in partnership with ArabLit. This event is open to all, whether or not you have attended one of our book clubs before. No knowledge of the original language is required to take part! Our next meeting will be held on Wednesday 29th March at 7pm
Exportability and Context: Reading Arabic Literature in the West
In this Crown Seminar, Hosam Aboul-Ela, in conversation with Mona Kareem, will discuss the "exportability" of Arabic literature by looking at the work of Egyptian novelist Sonallah Ibrahim in its Arabic, French, and English versions
2023 AASA Virtual Round Table Discussion: The Place of Translation in Arab American Studies
Hosts: Pauline Homsi & Rania Said This virtual roundtable explores the relationship between translation studies and Arab American studies. Its purpose is to generate an open-ended dialogue that highlights central ideas related to how thinking about translation in relation to Arab American studies and vice versa opens possibilities for ways
