You Haven’t Been Defeated: Book Talk with Sanaa Seif
A book talk with Egyptian revolutionary Sanaa Seif, former political prisoner and sister of Alaa Abd El-Fattah with renowned independent Egyptian journalist, Sharif Abdel Kouddous.
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Gaza Poet Mosab Abu Toha, in conversation with Mary Karr
The Markaz Review and City Lights in conjunction with the Middle Eastern Children’s Alliance celebrate the publication of Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza, by Mosab Abu Toha.
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afikra Book Club: Author Naomi Shihab Nye
Join afikra as they interview author of “The Turtle of Michigan” and “The Turtle of Oman” Naomi Shihab Nye on the afikra Book Club series.
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BCLT Research Seminar with Michael Cooperson – French Word Games, “Untranslatable” Arabic, and Global English
Al-Hariri’s Impostures is a twelfth-century collection of fifty tales written entirely in rhyme. Because of the rhyme, not to mention the riddles, puns, lipograms, and rare vocabulary, it has routinely […]
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Getting our Hands Dirty: What’s so special about feminist translation (and translating feminists)?
Getting our Hands Dirty: What's so special about feminist translation (and translating feminists)? Round table discussion and Q&A.
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Arab Literature and Culture in the West and Beyond – Sheikh Zayed Book Award
The Sheikh Zayed Book Award and SOAS are organising an event on "Arab Literature and Culture in the West and Beyond" featuring Michael Cooperson, Robert Irwin, and Huda Fakhreddine, moderated by Prof. Wen-chin Ouyang.
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Radical Books Collective – Beware My Smile: On Radical Desire
Radical Books Collective is organizing an evening of conversations with writers, editors and translators about their new books on sex, sexuality, lust, love, gender and desire.
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Adabiyat Book Club: Maha Gargash’s ‘That Other Me’
Join Adabiyat's May 2022 virtual book club! They will be discussing Emirati author Maha Gargash's novel 'That Other Me' on May 15 at 12 pm EST.
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The DC Arab Literature Festival: Narrating the Middle East
"Narrating the Middle East" is an exciting virtual Arab literary festival taking place on Tuesday, May 17 and Wednesday May 18, 2022.