Peter Cole, Iman Mersal, and Robyn Creswell
On the 29th November, The Elliott Bay Book Company will be virtually welcoming two poets with new collections: Peter Cole's Draw Me After and Iman Mersal's The Threshold.
On the 29th November, The Elliott Bay Book Company will be virtually welcoming two poets with new collections: Peter Cole's Draw Me After and Iman Mersal's The Threshold.
Beloved Palestinian chefs + food bloggers have teamed up with UNRWA USA this holiday for a festive cooking demonstration that helps refugees
Join MENAWA's virtual book club to discuss Hoda Barakat's Voices of the Lost (tr. Marilyn Booth) on December 15, 5 pm UK time. Email menawapocoreads@gmail.com to join.
Avielah Barclay and Joumana Medlej are both deeply engaged in the Art of the Book.n. They will discuss what each tradition learned from its neighbours – how different materials and techniques were incorporated or dismissed as different scribal traditions and religious identities engaged with them. They will also discuss what we can discern about the calligraphers' and scribes' state of mind by what is visible on the page.
Celebrate the 2022 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation. Join Banipal online for an evening of inspiration and recognition!
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.
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 poetry, visual art, and translations […]
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 provides a preliminary study of […]
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.
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 […]
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. In 2012, the joyful hopes […]
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!