This February, Comma Press will host a series of free online workshops and talks offering advice and insight into the world of translation. The third instalment of Manchester in Translation will be an opportunity for budding translators to develop practical skills for literary translation, learn about the intersection between writing and translation, and consider translation as a political tool.
Tomorrow: Futures of Resistance is a virtual panel on Arab and Palestinian Futurism, organized by the PYM, and co-sponsored by RAWI and Palestine Writes.
The Banipal Book Club will be discussing Shahla Ujyali's 'A Bed for the King's Daughter', tr. Sawad Hussain, on Wednesday, February 23.
Writers Lina Meruane and Nadia Owusu will be in conversation on "The Politics of Home" for the University of Notre Dame "Literatures of Annihilation, Exile, & Resistance" series.
AUC Press is holding a memorial for translator Humphrey Taman Davies (1947–2021) that will also be livestreamed via Facebook.
On March 4 at 1:30 pm, join on Zoom to hear Claire Cooley discuss her latest research on "Sonic Labor: Female Cine-workers and the First Talkies in Cairo and Bombay."
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.
Writer and Lawyer Raja Shehadeh will hold this year's Edward Said Memorial Lecture, entitled The Peregrinations of Memory: The Case of Palestine.
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.
