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SUMMARY:The Politics of Home: Lina Meruane and Nadia Owusu in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Lina Meruane is an award-winning Chilean writer and scholar. She has published two collections of short stories and five novels. Translated by Megan McDowell into English are her latest: Seeing Red (Deep Vellum & Atlantic) and Nervous System (Graywolf & Atlantic). Meruane has written several non-fiction books\, among which is her memoir Becoming Palestine and her essay on the impact and representation of the AIDS epidemic in Latin American literature\, Viral Voyages (Palgrave MacMillan). She received the prestigious Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Novel Prize (Mexico 2012)\, the Anna Seghers Prize (Germany\, 2011) as well as grants from the Guggenheim Foundation\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, and a DAAD Writer in Residence in Berlin\, and the Casa Cien Años de Soledad (Mexico 2021)\, among others. She currently teaches Global Cultures and Creative Writing at New York University. \nNadia Owusu is a Ghanaian and Armenian-American writer and urbanist. Her first book\, Aftershocks\,  topped many most-anticipated and best book of the year lists\, including The New York Times\, The Oprah Magazine\, Vogue\, TIME\, Vulture\, and the BBC. It was a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice. Nadia is the recipient of a 2019 Whiting Award. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The New York Times\, Orion\, Granta\, The Paris Review Daily\, The Guardian\, The Wall Street Journal\, Slate\, Bon Appétit\, Travel + Leisure\, and others. By day\, Nadia is Director of Storytelling at Frontline Solutions\, a Black-owned consulting firm working for justice and liberation in partnership with philanthropic and nonprofit organizations. She teaches creative writing at the Mountainview MFA program and lives in Brooklyn\, New York. \nThis conversation will be co-moderated by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi\, Associate Professor of English in Creative Writing\, and Atalia Omer\, Professor of Religion\, Conflict\, and Peace Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and at the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/the-politics-of-home-lina-meruane-and-nadia-owusu-in-conversation/
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SUMMARY:Tribute in Memory of Humphrey Taman Davies (1947–2021)
DESCRIPTION:February 28 / 6:00–7:00pm Cairo Time\nEwart Hall\, AUC Tahrir Campus\nAlso on broadcasted simultaneously on AUC Press Facebook Live\nOpen to the public\nSome tributes will be in Arabic and some in English. \nHumphrey Taman Davies was a Cairo-based award-winning British translator of Arabic historical and classical texts and modern fiction who had worked for decades in the Arab world and translated many works of fiction and nonfiction for AUC Press. He died in the UK on 12 November. \nA memorial in his honor will be held in Ewart Hall\, AUC Tahrir Campus. The ceremony will also be broadcasted live on the AUC Press Facebook page.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/tribute-in-memory-of-humphrey-taman-davies-1947-2021/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220304T133000
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SUMMARY:Sonic Labor: Female Cine-workers and the First Talkies in Cairo and Bombay
DESCRIPTION:Talk with Claire Cooley\, CHAT Postdoctoral Fellow \nAbout the Talk: \nIn Cairo and Bombay in the late 1920s\, efforts to develop the infrastructure needed to make films with synchronized sound dovetailed with anti-colonial boycotts\, strikes\, and support of indigenous industries. As resistance to British rule pulsated in and between these colonial capitals\, cinema emerged as an important focal point of the nexus of industrial nationalism and economic independence. In this context\, female cine-workers and their voices became enmeshed in filmmakers’ efforts to frame cinema as a respectable and serious medium worthy of the state support and investment needed for both industrialization and sound. \nIn this lecture\, Cooley argues that actresses and other female cine-workers involved in the making of the first talkies in Cairo and Bombay were obliged to perform a novel type of film labor — sonic labor. Sonic labor helped to ensure that female cine-workers aligned with gendered expectations of nation\, respectability\, professionalism\, and femininity held by audiences\, film stakeholders and other cine-workers. For an actress in front of the camera and microphone\, her labor was sonic in the sense that she had to speak and/or sing in a particular way. A female cine-worker who did not work in front of the camera also performed sonic labor in the sense that the inclusion of sound and its accompanying political and industrial dynamics influenced expectations of\, and opportunities available to\, her. Sonic labor would become crucial means through which an actress and female cine-worker could impart respectability to a medium that was considered crucial to national aspirations. \n  \nRegister online for a Zoom link.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/sonic-labor-female-cine-workers-and-the-first-talkies-in-cairo-and-bombay/
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SUMMARY:Sketching/Scripting Women – Women and Comics in the Arab World
DESCRIPTION:The Spring 2022 seminar in the ‘Sketching/Scripting Women’ series of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing will explore the work of Francophone female graphic novelists from the Arab World\, with contributions from academic speakers focusing on different historical and socio-political contexts spanning from the Maghreb to the Middle-East\, and a talk by prize-winning Beirut-born bande dessinée author Michèle Standjofski. Flourishing comics production by graphic novelists originating from Maghreb and Mashriq countries has seen an increasing contribution of female authors since the start of the millennium\, and later the Arab Spring\, who have explored issues such as war\, memory\, identity\, gender\, and youth culture. Such cultural production is also characterised by its multilingualism which lies at the heart of the creative process; discussions on Arab comics will therefore offer an opportunity to reflect on the engagement of authors with the question of creative multilingualism. \n  \nThis seminar will be of relevance to anyone interested in comics\, gender\, and contemporary Arab culture.  \nThe primary goal of the ‘Sketching/Scripting Women’ series is to contribute to and help steer the development of research into female bande dessinée creation\, by bringing together practitioners\, academics and the general public. 
URL:https://arablit.org/event/sketching-scripting-women-women-and-comics-in-the-arab-world/
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Cairo:20220305T180000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Cairo:20220305T200000
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CREATED:20220218T071608Z
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SUMMARY:Edward Said Memorial Lecture "The Peregrinations of Memory: The Case of Palestine."
DESCRIPTION:Writer and Lawyer Raja Shehadeh will hold this year’s Edward Said Memorial Lecture\, entitled The Peregrinations of Memory: The Case of Palestine. \nThe lecture will take place via Zoom. \nFor more info\, eclinfo@aucegypt.edu | tel 20.2.2615.1628/1630
URL:https://arablit.org/event/edward-said-memorial-lecture-the-peregrinations-of-memory-the-case-of-palestine/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220308T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220308T190000
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SUMMARY:International Women’s Day: Layla AlAmmar\, Edna Adan Ismail\, and Etaf Rum
DESCRIPTION:Authors Etaf Rum and Layla AlAmmar\, and woman’s rights activist Edna Adan Ismail\, discuss their books\, their favourite female artists and the women that inspire them. \n\n\n\n\nTo celebrate International Women’s Day 2022\, Bristol Ideas have partnered with ShelterBox Book Club to present a panel of global storytellers for a special online event. The panels’ books were read by the ShelterBox Book Club over the past two years\, and they are delighted that the authors are able to join us virtually. \nLayla AlAmmar’s The Pact We Made explores ideas of freedom and being a woman in Kuwait. Dahlia is staring down the barrel of her thirtieth birthday\, the age when a Kuwaiti woman from a good family is past her prime marrying years. She straddles two worlds: one in which she’s a modern woman living in a modern city\, and another where she can’t have male friends\, or leave the country without her father’s consent. \nThe eldest child of an overworked doctor in the British Protectorate of Somaliland\, Edna Adna Ismail was the first midwife in Somaliland. Later\, as the first female Foreign Minister of Somaliland\, she became a passionate campaigner for women’s rights and better health. Her memoir A Woman of Firsts tells the inspirational story of how she survived imprisonment\, persecution\, and civil war to become a pioneering politician\, a leading light in the World Health Organisation\, and a global campaigner for women’s rights. \nEtaf Rum’s A Woman is No Man is set in America and tells the story of three generations of Palestinian-American women struggling to express their individual desires within the confines of their Arab culture. It’s an intimate glimpse into a controlling and closed cultural world\, and a universal tale about family and the ways silence and shame can destroy those we have sworn to protect. \nThis panel revisits their books\, debates the power of stories and art\, discusses the women who inspire the ongoing work of International Disaster Relief Charity ShelterBox\, and much more\, with Catherine Thornhill.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/international-womens-day-layla-alammar-edna-adan-ismail-and-etaf-rum/
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Beirut:20220309T190000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Beirut:20220309T200000
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SUMMARY:afikra Book Club: Kareem James Abu-Zeid
DESCRIPTION:Join this interview with translator Kareem James Abu-Zeid about his translations of Rabee Jaber’s novel Confessions and poet Najwan Darwish’s collection Exhausted on the Cross as part of the afikra Book Club series.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/afikra-book-club-kareem-james-abu-zeid/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220310T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220310T190000
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CREATED:20220307T151813Z
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SUMMARY:Khaled Khalifa: Writing in the Time of War
DESCRIPTION:Khaled Khalifa will deliver the 2022 Banipal Visiting Writer Fellowship annual lecture on “Writing in the Time of War.” He will be speaking about his own experience and reading from his novel Death is Hard Work. \nWhile the lecture will take part in person\, it will also be livestreamed. Register here.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/khaled-khalifa-writing-in-the-time-of-war/
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Beirut:20220310T190000
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SUMMARY:afikra Conversations: Lina Mounzer
DESCRIPTION:Join this interview with writer Lina Mounzer as part of the afikra Conversations series. \nBio: Lina Mounzer is a writer and translator living in Beirut. Her work has appeared in the New York Times\, the Paris Review\, 1843\, Literary Hub\, and Bidoun\, as well as in the anthologies Hikayat: An Anthology of Lebanese Women’s Writing (Telegram Books: 2007) and Tales of Two Planets (Penguin Books: 2020) an anthology of writing on climate change and inequality.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/afikra-conversations-lina-mounzer/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220312T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220312T193000
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SUMMARY:Lancaster Litfest: Layla AlAmmar & Leila Aboulela\, with Lindsey Moore
DESCRIPTION:Kuwaiti-American author Layla AlAmmar and Sudanese-British writer Leila Aboulela read and discuss their fiction with Dr Lindsey Moore of Lancaster University. In the last decade\, literature from the Arab world has blossomed in translation\, with writers like Hanan al-Shaykh and Booker International winner Jokha Alharthi taking the limelight. The spotlight now falls on two women writers of Arab origin who each write in English. \nLayla AlAmmar is the author of two novels\, The Pact We Made and Silence is a Sense\, just out in paperback. She is currently writing a PhD on Arab women’s fiction at Lancaster University. \nLeila Aboulela’s books include the story collection Elsewhere\, Home (winner of the Saltire Fiction Book of the Year Award 2019)\, and four novels of which the most recent is Bird Summons. She teaches at Aberdeen University. \nLindsey Moore is reader in Post-colonial Literature at Lancaster University and has published extensively on Arab world literature. \nHow to Watch: In person at The Auditorium\, The Storey \nOnline via Crowdcast \nTickets: Attend in-person £8 (£6 concessions) or watch online £5 \nOnline events will be streamed on Crowdcast. If you have purchased an online ticket\, you can stream the event live\, or catch-up for thirty days after the event.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/lancaster-litfest-layla-alammar-leila-aboulela-with-lindsey-moore/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220317T170000
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SUMMARY:MENAWA Reading Group: "The Monotonous Chaos of Existence" by Hisham Bustani
DESCRIPTION:Join MENAWAPoco’s March 2022 virtual book discussion\, of Hisham Bustani’s The Monotonous Chaos of Existence at 5pm UK time. To participate\, email them at menawapocoreads@gmail.com and follow them on Twitter to see all updates.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/menawa-reading-group-the-monotonous-chaos-of-existence-by-hisham-bustani/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220320T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220320T140000
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CREATED:20220119T173125Z
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SUMMARY:Adabiyat Book Club: Malika Moustadraf's "Blood Feast"
DESCRIPTION:Join Adabiyat’s March 2022 virtual book club! They will be discussing Moroccan author Malika Moustadraf’s short story collection Blood Feast (outside US: Something Strange\, Like Hunger) on March 20 at 12 pm EST. \nDM them on Twitter or Instagram to join.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/adabiyat-book-club-malika-moustadrafs-blood-feast/
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Cairo:20220320T170000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Cairo:20220320T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T234456
CREATED:20220310T075021Z
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SUMMARY:Bilal Orfali: "Islamic Law in Literature: Case Studies from Tanukhī (d. 384/994) and Hamadhanī (d. 398/1008)"
DESCRIPTION:Bilal Orfali will be giving the DVP Bayard Dodge Lectures for Spring 2022\, with the first of these titled “Islamic Law in Literature: Case Studies from Tanukhī (d. 384/994) and Hamadhanī (d. 398/1008).” \nIt will take place in person but be livestreamed via Zoom.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/bilal-orfali-islamic-law-in-literature-case-studies-from-tanukhi-d-384-994-and-hamadhani-d-398-1008/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220321T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220321T183000
DTSTAMP:20260404T234456
CREATED:20220217T205543Z
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SUMMARY:Michael Cooperson: Rethinking Arabic Literary History
DESCRIPTION:Rethinking Arabic Literary History \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCMES is pleased to present the 2022 H.A.R. Gibb Arabic & Islamic Studies Lecture Series with \nMichael Cooperson\nProfessor of Arabic\, University of California\, Los Angeles \nRegister in advance: https://bit.ly/368RNFq \nPlease note: This lecture will be online via Zoom\, and everyone wishing to attend should register using the link above. Limited in-person seating for Harvard students and faculty may become available. If so\, Harvard students and faculty who have registered will be notified of the campus location for the talk. \nThe most recent history of Arabic literature in English was written in 1998. Since then\, editors and translators have expanded the archive\, scholars have repositioned Southwest Asia and North Africa within global and connected histories\, and critics have exposed the local character of supposedly universal notions of literature. In this new context\, what should a new history of pre-modern Arabic literature look like? \nMichael Cooperson is an American scholar and translator of Arabic literature. Cooperson studied at Harvard University and the American University of Cairo\, and is currently a professor of Arabic language and literature at the University of California\, Los Angeles. He has published two monographs on early Abbasid cultural history: Classical Arabic Biography: The Heirs of the Prophets in the Age of al-Ma’mun and Al-Mamun (Makers of the Muslim World). \nHe has translated a number of works from Arabic and French including: Impostures (al-Ḥarīrī); Abdelfattah Kilito’s The Author and His Doubles: Essays on Classical Arabic Culture; Ibn al-Jawzi’s Manaqib al-Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal (Virtues of the Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal); Khairy Shalaby’s The Time-Travels of the Man Who Sold Pickles and Sweets; and Jurji Zaydan’s The Caliph’s Heirs — Brothers at War: the Fall of Baghdad. In 2021\, he won the Sheikh Zayed Book Award for translation from Arabic to English. His other interests include Maltese language and culture.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/49098/
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Cairo:20220322T170000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Cairo:20220322T200000
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SUMMARY:Bilal Orfali: Walking in the Steps of Poets: Courtly Themes in Early Sufism
DESCRIPTION:As the second lecture of the DVP Bayard Dodge Sprin 2022 Lecture series\, Bilal Orfali will give a talk in Arabic on “Walking in the Steps of Poets: Courtly Themes in Early Sufism/على خطى الشعراء: ثيمات شعرية في التصوّف المبكّر”. \nThe lecture will be in person\, but livestreamed via Zoom.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/bilal-orfali-walking-in-the-steps-of-poets-courtly-themes-in-early-sufism/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220323T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220323T183000
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CREATED:20220217T205300Z
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SUMMARY:Michael Cooperson: Learning Arabic Backwards
DESCRIPTION:Learning Arabic Backwards: Was It Absolutely Frightening? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCMES is pleased to present the 2022 H.A.R. Gibb Arabic & Islamic Studies Lecture Series with \nMichael Cooperson\nProfessor of Arabic\, University of California\, Los Angeles \nRegister in advance: https://bit.ly/3GVY4Bc \nPlease note: This lecture will be online via Zoom\, and everyone wishing to attend should register using the link above. Limited in-person seating for Harvard students and faculty may become available. If so\, Harvard students and faculty who have registered will be notified of the campus location for the talk. \nArabic has been acquiring new speakers for some 1400 years. Beginning around 1120\, many learners studied the language by reading one of the complex texts ever written in it. Full of puns\, allusions\, riddles\, lipograms\, and palindromes\, al-Hariri’s Impostures can baffle even proficient speakers. Even more oddly\, the seventeenth-century Dutch Orientalists who introduced the work to Europe also presented it as a teaching text. How could Impostures serve that purpose\, and what does the answer tell us about the dissemination of hegemonic languages in pre- and early modern times? \nMichael Cooperson is an American scholar and translator of Arabic literature. Cooperson studied at Harvard University and the American University of Cairo\, and is currently a professor of Arabic language and literature at the University of California\, Los Angeles. He has published two monographs on early Abbasid cultural history: Classical Arabic Biography: The Heirs of the Prophets in the Age of al-Ma’mun and Al-Mamun (Makers Of The Muslim World). \nHe has translated a number of works from Arabic and French including: Impostures (al-Ḥarīrī); Abdelfattah Kilito’s The Author and His Doubles: Essays on Classical Arabic Culture; Ibn al-Jawzi’s Manaqib al-Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal (Virtues of the Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal); Khairy Shalaby’s The Time-Travels of the Man Who Sold Pickles and Sweets; and Jurji Zaydan’s The Caliph’s Heirs — Brothers at War: the Fall of Baghdad. In 2021\, he won the Sheikh Zayed Book Award for translation from Arabic to English. His other interests include Maltese language and culture.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/michael-cooperson-learning-arabic-backwards/
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SUMMARY:Queer Trans/Nationalisms: Love & Rage in Times of Atrocity ft. Zeyn Joukhadar and Randa Jarrar in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Zeyn Joukhadar is the author of the novels The Thirty Names of Night\, which won both the Lambda Literary Award and the Stonewall Book Award\, and The Map of Salt and Stars\, which won the Middle East Book Award and was a finalist for the Goodreads Choice Awards and the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize. His work has appeared in the Kink anthology\, Salon\, The Paris Review\, [PANK]\, and elsewhere\, and has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He guest edited Mizna’s 2020 Queer + Trans Voices issue and is a mentor with the Periplus Collective.\n \nRanda Jarrar is the author of the memoir Love Is An Ex-Country\, the novel A Map of Home\, and the collection of stories Him\, Me\, Muhammad Ali. She is also a performer who has appeared in independent films and in the TV show RAMY. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine\, Salon\, Bitch\, Buzzfeed\, and elsewhere. She is a recipient of a Creative Capital Award and an American Book Award\, as well as awards and fellowships from the Lannan Foundation\, PEN\, and others. She lives in Los Angeles.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/queer-trans-nationalisms-love-rage-in-times-of-atrocity-ft-zeyn-joukhadar-and-randa-jarrar-in-conversation/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220325T180000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Launch: Hilal Chouman's 'Huzn fi qalbi'
DESCRIPTION:Lebanese novelist Hilal Chouman will be in conversation with Rasha Hilwi on the occasion of the launch of his new book\, حزن في قلبي. The book is coming out with Berlin-based publisher Khan Aljanub. The event will be livestreamed on their Facebook page. \n 
URL:https://arablit.org/event/virtual-book-launch-hilal-choumans-huzn-fi-qalbi/
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SUMMARY:Syrian Poets Today and Elsewhere
DESCRIPTION:Join RAWI for the first gathering of its kind\, of Syrian poets writing today and from elsewhere in the diaspora. With a poetry film by Ghayath Almadhoun. \nBorn in Copenhagen to Syrian-Finnish parents\, Nathalie Khankan is the author of QUIET ORIENT RIOT (2020 Omnidawn)\, recipient of the 2021 California Book Award. \nFarid Matuk is the author of the poetry collections This Isa Nice Neighborhood and The Real Horse. Redolent\, a book-arts collaboration with Colombian artist Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez\, is now available from Singing Saw Press. Social Media: Twitter: @matuk_farid\, Instagram: @whaevahuhuh \nKhawla Dunia is a Syrian writer and poet – born in Damascus – BA in economics from Damascus University – political and feminist activist – who left Syria in mid-2013 – residing between Germany and Turkey. Khawla is currently working as a gender consultant with the Euro-Mediterranean Feminist Initiative. A poetry book published 2012: Overhasty Poems Before the Missile Falls\, a collection of poems published in German\, Italian\, English and Arabic in books and websites. \nMohja Kahf is a professor of comparative literature and Middle Eastern studies at the University of Arkansas since 1995. She has authored a novel and three books of poetry\, including Hagar Poems and My Lover Feeds Me Grapefruit. \nLubna Safi was born in Detroit and grew up in the Midwest. She is currently completing a PhD at the University of California\, Berkeley. Along with poetry\, Lubna also writes fiction\, literary criticism\, and lyric essays. Your Blue and the Quiet Lament is her debut poetry collection. Twitter: @lubna_saf \nGhayath Almadhoun is a Palestinian-Syrian-Swedish poet born in Damascus in 1979 and emigrated to Sweden in 2008. He has published four poetry collections in Arabic and his work has been translated into dozens of languages. Right now\, he lives in between Berlin & Stockholm. http://www.ghayathalmadhoun.com
URL:https://arablit.org/event/syrian-poets-today-and-elsewhere/
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SUMMARY:afikra Book Club: Author Zeyn Joukhadar
DESCRIPTION:Join this interview with author Zeyn Joukhadar on their book The Thirty Names of Night as part of the afikra Book Club series. \nSynopsis: \nFive years after a suspicious fire killed his ornithologist mother\, a closeted Syrian American trans boy sheds his birth name and searches for a new one. He has been unable to paint since his mother’s ghost has begun to visit him each evening. As his grandmother’s sole caretaker\, he spends his days cooped up in their apartment\, avoiding his neighborhood masjid\, his estranged sister\, and even his best friend (who also happens to be his longtime crush). The only time he feels truly free is when he slips out at night to paint murals on buildings in the once-thriving Manhattan neighborhood known as Little Syria. \nOne night\, he enters the abandoned community house and finds the tattered journal of a Syrian American artist named Laila Z\, who dedicated her career to painting the birds of North America. She famously and mysteriously disappeared more than sixty years before\, but her journal contains proof that both his mother and Laila Z encountered the same rare bird before their deaths. In fact\, Laila Z’s past is intimately tied to his mother’s—and his grandmother’s—in ways he never could have expected. Even more surprising\, Laila Z’s story reveals the histories of queer and transgender people within his own community that he never knew. Realizing that he isn’t and has never been alone\, he has the courage to officially claim a new name: Nadir\, an Arabic name meaning rare. \nThe Thirty Names of Night is a timely exploration of how we all search for and ultimately embrace who we are.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/afikra-book-club-author-zeyn-joukhadar/
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Beirut:20220330T190000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Beirut:20220330T200000
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SUMMARY:afikra Conversations: Youssef Rakha
DESCRIPTION:Join this interview with novelist\, essayist\, poet & journalist Youssef Rakha as part of the afikra Conversations series. \nBio: Youssef Rakha is a novelist\, poet\, essayist and journalist who writes in both Arabic and English. His interests include Arab porn and the possibility of a post-Muslim perspective. His first two novels The Book of the Sultan’s Seal and The Crocodiles appeared in English in early 2015. Frequently anthologized and translated into many languages\, he has written widely on Arabic literature and Egyptian history. Youssef’s 2006 photo travelogue Beirut Shi Mahal was nominated for the Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage. He was among the 39 best Arab writers under 40 selected for the Hay Festival Beirut39 Festival in 2010. His first novel\, The Book of the Sultan’s Seal\, won the 2015 Banipal Seif Ghobash Prize for Paul Starkey’s translation\, and his third\, Paulo\, was on the long list of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2017 and won the 2017 Sawiris Award.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/afikra-conversations-youssef-rakha/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220331T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220331T183000
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SUMMARY:Hosam Aboul-Ela: Nonfiction in the Novels of Sonallah Ibrahim
DESCRIPTION:Academic\, translator\, and writer Hosam Aboul-Ela will give a talk on “Nonfiction in the Novels of Sonallah Ibrahim: The Horizons of Translation” at Indiana University on Thursday\, March 31\, 2022\, at 5pm EDT. \nThe talk will be in-person\, but a livestream will be provided via Zoom. \nFind more info on Hosam’s Twitter account and register here.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/hosam-aboul-ela-nonfiction-in-the-novels-of-sonallah-ibrahim/
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Beirut:20220405T190000
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SUMMARY:afikra Conversations: Professor Huda Fakhreddine
DESCRIPTION:Join this interview with the professor of Arabic literature Huda Fakhreddine for the afikra Conversations series. \nHuda Fakhreddine’s work focuses on modernist movements or trends in Arabic poetry and their relationship to the Arabic literary tradition. She is interested in the role of the Arabic qaṣīda as a space for negotiating the foreign and the indigenous\, the modern and the traditional\, and its relationship to other poetic forms such as the free verse poem and the prose poem. She is the author of Metapoesis in the Arabic Tradition (Brill\, 2015) and The Arabic Prose Poem: Poetic Theory and Practice (Edinburgh University Press\, 2021).
URL:https://arablit.org/event/afikra-conversations-professor-huda-fakhreddine/
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SUMMARY:A Conversation With Hisham Bustani
DESCRIPTION:Author Hisham Bustani will talk about his new short story collection The Monotonous Chaos of Existence at this virtual event hosted by University of Michigan – Dearborn.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/a-conversation-with-hisham-bustani/
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SUMMARY:afikra Conversations: Omar Berrada
DESCRIPTION:Join this interview with writer\, translator\, curator and director of Dar al-Ma’mun Omar Berrada as part of the afikra Conversations series. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nBio: Omar Berrada is a writer and curator\, and the director of Dar al-Ma’mûn\, a library and artists residency in Marrakech. His work focuses on the politics of translation and intergenerational transmission. He is the author of the poetry collection Clonal Hum (2020)\, and the editor or co-editor of several books\, including The Africans\, a volume on racial dynamics in North Africa (2016)\, and La Septième Porte\, Ahmed Bouanani’s posthumous history of Moroccan cinema (2020). His writing was published in numerous exhibition catalogs\, magazines and anthologies\, including Frieze\, Bidoun\, Asymptote\, The University of California Book of North African Literature\, and Poetic Justice: An Anthology of Contemporary Moroccan Poetry. Currently living in New York\, he teaches at The Cooper Union where he co-organizes the IDS Lecture Series.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/afikra-conversations-omar-berrada/
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SUMMARY:The Arabic Novel in the Gulf: Between Documentation and Fiction
DESCRIPTION:Jokha Alharthi\, Omani author and recipient of the 2019 International Booker Prize\, in conversation with Mona Kareem. \nCo-sponsored by the Center for the Humanities at Tufts\, The Fares Center for Mediterranean Studies\, and The Fletcher School.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/the-arabic-novel-in-the-gulf-between-documentation-and-fiction/
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SUMMARY:MENAWA Reading Group: 'Planet of Clay' by Samar Yazbek
DESCRIPTION:Join MENAWAPoco’s April 2022 virtual book discussion\, of Samar Yazbek’s Planet of Clay (tr. Leri Price) at 5pm UK time. To participate\, email them at menawapocoreads@gmail.com and follow them on Twitter to see all updates.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/menawa-reading-group-planet-of-clay-by-samar-yazbek/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220422T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220422T143000
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SUMMARY:What to The Slave is The Arabic Novel?
DESCRIPTION:Talk with Dr. Mona Kareem\, CHAT Postdoctoral Fellow. \nAbout the Talk: \nOutside of colonial archives\, histories of Indian Ocean slavery have mainly been carried by novelists from South Asia\, Africa\, and more recently the Arabian Peninsula (aka Arab Gulf). In this talk\, Kareem discusses a relatively new interest among Arabic novelists to compose microhistories of oppressed groups such as enslaved\, stateless\, migrant\, and displaced peoples\, as well as ethnic and religious minorities. This focus in the contemporary Arabic novel\, at once ambitious and problematic\, has played an instrumental role in bringing issues of race\, ethnicity\, and minority to the forefront of public debates. Kareem’s talk will walk us through several contemporary Arabic novels written by Arab and Afro-Arab writers to closely examine what roles an author’s positionality\, politics\, and aesthetics play when tackling stories of enslavement and their place in national history and imaginary. Kareem argues that Arab authors often resort to colonial romance fiction to test race relations\, while Black authors are more interested in formulating a neo-slave narrative tradition.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/what-to-the-slave-is-the-arabic-novel/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220424T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220424T190000
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SUMMARY:TMR Bookgroup: Hisham Bustani's “The Monotonous Chaos of Existence”
DESCRIPTION:The Markaz Review invites you to participate in their monthly bookgroup conversation\, in which authors and/or translators join during the second half of the hour. On Sunday\, April 24th\, writer Hisham Bustani and translator Maia Tabet will join at 1:30 pm Eastern. \nTo receive the Zoom link for this free online event\, simply email books@themarkaz.org.\n\nFree Event / 1 pm Eastern/18:00 UK/19:00 CET
URL:https://arablit.org/event/tmr-bookgroup-hisham-bustanis-the-monotonous-chaos-of-existence/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220426T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220426T160000
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SUMMARY:Roundtable on Literary Translation
DESCRIPTION:Please register your interest to attend the forthcoming Roundtable on Literary Translation organised by the School of Modern Languages and Cultures (University of Warwick) using this link. They have a very exciting panel with practising literary translators as well as representatives of the publishing and literary world:\n \n\nAlexandra Büchler (Director of Literature Across Frontiers\, LAF)\nWill Forrester (Translation and International Manager at English Pen)\nRuth Ahmedzai Kemp (practising literary translator working from German\, Arabic and Russian into English)\nAyça Türkoglu (practising literary translator working from German and Turkish into English\nSawad Hussain (practising literary translator working with the Arabic language)\n\n\nThe event will take place in a hybrid format on Tuesday 26 April 2-4pm UK time in OC1.06 and on MS Teams. \nPlease note that you will need to register your interest through this form by Monday 25 April (midnight UK time). You will receive further details about accessing the seminar via Teams on the day of the talk.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/roundtable-on-literary-translation-2/
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