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SUMMARY:afikra Book Club: Author Naomi Shihab Nye
DESCRIPTION: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. \nPraised by the Horn Book as “both quiet and exhilarating\,” “The Turtle of Oman” by the acclaimed poet and National Book Award Finalist Naomi Shihab Nye follows Aref Al-Amri as he says goodbye to everything and everyone he loves in his hometown of Muscat\, Oman\, as his family prepares to move to Ann Arbor\, Michigan. This book was awarded a 2015 Middle East Book Award\, was named a Notable Book by the American Library Association\, and includes extra material by the author. \nThe Turtle of Michigan is a deft and accessible novel that follows a young boy named Aref as he travels from Muscat\, Oman\, to Ann Arbor\, Michigan\, and adjusts to a new life and a new school in the United States. A wonderful pick for young middle grade readers and fans of Other Words for Home and Billy Miller Makes a Wish.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/afikra-book-club-author-naomi-shihab-nye/
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SUMMARY:BCLT Research Seminar with Michael Cooperson - French Word Games\, “Untranslatable” Arabic\, and Global English
DESCRIPTION: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 been called untranslatable. Yet translators into Hebrew\, German\, and Russian have succeeded in re-creating it in their languages. A new English translation draws on the work of the OuLiPo\, the French literary collective\, to attempt the same in English.\nMichael Cooperson is Professor of Arabic at University of California\, Los Angeles. He studied at Harvard and the American University in Cairo\, and taught at Harvard\, the Middlebury School of Arabic and Dartmouth College before joining UCLA in 1995. He has published the monographs Classical Arabic Biography: The Heirs of the Prophet in the Age of al-Ma’mūn (Cambridge University Press\, 2000) and Al Ma’mun (OneWorld Books\, 2005). He has also translated a number of works from Arabic and French\, including Abdelfattah Kilito’s The Author and His Doubles: Essays on Classical Arabic Culture (Syracuse University Press\, 2001)\, Khairy Shalaby’s The Time-Travels of the Man Who Sold Pickles and Sweets (American University in Cairo Press\, 2010) and Jurji Zaydan’s Brothers at War (Zaidan Foundation\, 2012). In 2009-10 he was Visiting Professor at Stanford University\, and 2015-2017 he was Senior Research Fellow for the Library of Arabic Literature\, New York University Abu Dhabi. In 2021\, he won the Sheikh Zayed Book Award for translation from Arabic to English.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/bclt-research-seminar-with-michael-cooperson-french-word-games-untranslatable-arabic-and-global-english/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220512T140000
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CREATED:20220511T203757Z
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SUMMARY:Getting our Hands Dirty: What's so special about feminist translation (and translating feminists)?
DESCRIPTION:The late great maverick Moroccan feminist writer Malika Moustadraf died at just 37 years old in 2006. Persecuted throughout her short life for writing about sexual violence and the patriarchy in her fiction\, the key details of her life story remain contested. So what are the challenges of translating a dead writer of such freighted work? And what issues must we take into account when attempting to represent someone like her in English in 2022? \nWith Alice Guthrie\, Helen Vassallo and Majida Ibrahim. \nZoom link: \nhttps://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/j/97259978936?pwd=RlJGVW5wQVc3MjU4c0VNeU85VzcxUT09 \nMeeting ID: 972 5997 8936 \nPassword: 745315
URL:https://arablit.org/event/getting-our-hands-dirty-whats-so-special-about-feminist-translation-and-translating-feminists/
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CREATED:20220426T121612Z
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SUMMARY:Arab Literature and Culture in the West and Beyond - Sheikh Zayed Book Award
DESCRIPTION:In its ambition to connect with wider academic audiences\, the Sheikh Zayed Book Award is organising a series of four events between April and June in collaboration with SOAS\, University of London\, famous for its commitment to and its reach in the global south. Professor Wen-chin Ouyang\, with her connections in North America\, Europe and East Asia\, will host and moderate the events\, bringing to this series an additional multilingual and cross-regional flare. The interlocutors and guests include shortlisted and invited authors\, translators\, cultural thought leaders and scholars from around the world. All events will be bilingual (Arabic/English) and online. \nThis panel discussion will feature: \n\nProf. Wen-chin Ouyang (moderator)\nMichael Cooperson – author and translator\, professor of Arabic language and literature at the University of California\, 2021 SZBA winner for the category Translation\nRobert Irwin\, Middle East editor of TLS\nHuda Fakhreddine – Associate Professor of Arabic Literature at the University of\nPennsylvania and literary translator
URL:https://arablit.org/event/arab-literature-and-culture-in-the-west-and-beyond-sheikh-zayed-book-award/
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CREATED:20220401T092215Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220401T092215Z
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SUMMARY:Radical Books Collective - Beware My Smile: On Radical Desire
DESCRIPTION:Inspired by Audre Lorde’s provocation\, “I have been woman / for a long time / beware my smile” we’re bringing you conversations with writers\, editors and translators about their new books on sex\, sexuality\, lust\, love\, gender and desire. \nFeaturing \n\nThe Sex Lives of African Women by Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah\nWe Wrote in Symbols: Love and Lust by Arab Women Writers\, edited by Selma Dabbagh\nThe Butterfly Jungle by Diriye Osman\nGlory Hole by Kim Hyun\, translated by Suhyun J. Ahn and Archana Madhavan\n\nHosted by Bhakti Shringarpure\, Meg Arenberg and Rudo Madiwa
URL:https://arablit.org/event/radical-books-collective-beware-my-smile-on-radical-desire/
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SUMMARY:Adabiyat Book Club: Maha Gargash's 'That Other Me'
DESCRIPTION: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. \nDM them on Twitter or Instagram to join.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/adabiyat-book-club-maha-gargashs-that-other-me/
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SUMMARY:The DC Arab Literature Festival: Narrating the Middle East
DESCRIPTION:Narrating the Middle East is an exciting virtual Arab literary festival taking place on Tuesday\, May 17 and Wednesday May 18\, 2022. Organized by the Middle East Institute’s Arts and Culture Center (MEI) and the Abu Dhabi Music and Arts Foundation (ADMAF) in partnership with the The Cheuse Center for International Writers at George Mason University\, the two-day virtual literary festival featuring writers and poets from the Middle East and its Diaspora is the first of its kind in the Washington\, DC area. \nThe festival explores the work of leading and emerging Arab authors and poets and presents a wide range of Arab literary talent to American and global audiences. Some of the topics that the festival will touch upon include the realities of writing in and about the region\, the challenges of publishing and translating works from the Middle East\, and how to grow readership and nurture new writers. \nCheck out the agenda at the MEI website and register to watch the sessions online.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/the-dc-arab-literature-festival-narrating-the-middle-east/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220517T190000
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SUMMARY:The Englishing of Hisham Bustani's 'Monotonous Chaos'
DESCRIPTION:Author Hisham Bustani\, translator maia tabet\, publisher Michael B. Tager\, and scholar Pete Moore talk translation\, its politics\, and more.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEmploying a variety of different genres\, the stories in Hisham Bustani’s The Monotonous Chaos of Existence — translated by maia tabet — explore the transformations in contemporary Jordan\, the Levant\, and the wider world. \nAt this launch event\, we’ll talk about Hisham Bustani’s second short-story collection in English translation\, “The Monotonous Chaos of Existence\,” the different ways his work is received in English and Arabic\, the challenges of translation & of editing translations\, the nitty-gritty of publishing multi-genre work\, and the intersection of Jordanian literature\, politics\, and society. \nHisham Bustani is an award-winning Jordanian author of five collections of short fiction and poetry. His most recent book\, the Monotonous Chaos of Existence\, was published by Mason Press in January. \nPete Moore is currently the Visit Kuwait Chair at the Paris School of International Studies\, Sciences Po\, Paris. He currently serves on the Editorial Committee of the Middle East Report and is a member of the Northeast Ohio Consortium for Middle East Studies. \nMarcia Lynx Qualey is the founding editor of ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly\, and co-host of the BULAQ podcast. \nmaia tabet is an Arabic-English literary translator based in Washington DC\, where she is the associate editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies. She is the translator of Hisham Bustani’s the Monotonous Chaos of Existence. \nMichael B. Tager is the Managing Editor of Mason Jar Press. A writer and editor\, his work has appeared places and can be found through his website.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/the-englishing-of-hisham-bustanis-monotonous-chaos/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220518T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220518T173000
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CREATED:20220506T081802Z
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SUMMARY:BCLT Research Seminar – Round Table: Arabic Discourse on Translation
DESCRIPTION:BCLT Translator in Residence Sawad Hussain is joined by editors Tarek Shamma and Myriam Salama-Carr for a round-table discussion to celebrate the recent publication of their Anthology of Arabic Discourse on Translation (Routledge\, 2022).
URL:https://arablit.org/event/bclt-research-seminar-round-table-arabic-discourse-on-translation/
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SUMMARY:Charis Olszok (Cambridge)\, "Ecocritical Readings of the Arabic Novel"
DESCRIPTION:UCD Environmental Humanities presents Charis Olszok (Cambridge)\, with a talk titled “Strange Energies: Ecocritical Readings of the Arabic Novel”. \nThursday 19 May\, 4pm. \nChair: Dr. Hannah Boast. \nBio: Charis Olszok studied French and Arabic at the University of Oxford\, before going on to complete her MA in Arabic Literature and her PhD at SOAS\, with a scholarship from the Wolfson Foundation. She finished her PhD in 2016\, looking at the depiction of animals in modern Libyan fiction from 1965-2011. In the course of her work\, she examined how animals were used to formulate protest against Gaddafi’s dictatorial regime\, and comment upon the country’s sudden oil wealth and rapidly changing social realities. She also focused on how portrayals of animals were constituted through the Islamic\, Sufi and folkloric influences on Libyan fiction\, relating them to other intriguing examples of animal depiction within the broader Arabic literary tradition. Following her PhD\, she joined the University of Cambridge as Lecturer in Modern Arabic Literature and Culture\, and as a Bye-Fellow of King’s College. In addition to her research\, she has translated numerous short works of modern Arabic fiction into English\, as well as two novels. \nRegistration \nThis talk will take place at 4pm Irish Standard Time\, which translates to 11am Eastern Standard (US Time). Registration will close at 2pm Dublin time on the 19th and links will be sent out twice\, on the 17th and on the 19th\, two hours before the event.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/charis-olszok-cambridge-ecocritical-readings-of-the-arabic-novel/
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SUMMARY:MENAWA Reading Group: 'Passage to the Plaza' by Sahar Khalifeh
DESCRIPTION:Join MENAWAPoco’s May 2022 virtual book discussion\, of Sahar Khalifeh’s Passage to the Plaza (tr. Sawad Hussain) 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-passage-to-the-plaza-by-sahar-khalifeh/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220522T160000
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SUMMARY:International Prize for Arabic Fiction: Live Stream of Winner Announcement and Press Conference
DESCRIPTION:The winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2022 will be announced in a hybrid event on Sunday 22 May 2022. \nTime (BST): Ceremony 16.00; Press conference 17.00 \nJoining link: Details to follow\nRSVP: Olivia.Riggon@fourcommunications.com
URL:https://arablit.org/event/international-prize-for-arabic-fiction-live-stream-of-winner-announcement-and-press-conference/
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Beirut:20220524T190000
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CREATED:20220414T070154Z
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SUMMARY:afikra Conversations: Author Laila Lalami
DESCRIPTION:Join afikra as they interview author Laila Lalami on the afikra Conversations series. \nLaila Lalami was born in Rabat and educated in Morocco\, Great Britain\, and the United States. She is the author of five books\, including The Moor’s Account\, which won the American Book Award\, the Arab-American Book Award\, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. It was on the longlist for the Booker Prize and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. Her most recent novel\, The Other Americans\, was a national bestseller and a finalist for the Kirkus Prize and the National Book Award in Fiction. Her essays and criticism have appeared in the Los Angeles Times\, the Washington Post\, The Nation\, Harper’s\, the Guardian\, and the New York Times. She has been awarded fellowships from the British Council\, the Fulbright Program\, and the Guggenheim Foundation and is currently a professor of creative writing at the University of California at Riverside
URL:https://arablit.org/event/afikra-conversations-author-laila-lalami/
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Beirut:20220525T170000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Beirut:20220525T180000
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CREATED:20220414T070340Z
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SUMMARY:afikra Outline: Memory in Ruins
DESCRIPTION:Join afikra as they interview assistant professor of Arabic language and literature and author of “Memory in Ruins: The Poetics of Atlal in Lebanese Wartime and Postwar Production” Yasmine Khayyat on the afikra Outline series. \nThis dissertation examines the convergence of ruins and memory. It is an inquiry into the role ruins play in indexing\, impeding and enabling memories of war through literary and non-literary media. At the heart of this study is an attempt to explore the multivalent nature of war memories in Lebanon–their inscription\, mediation\, and transformation–through the framework of ruins. Drawing on the classical Arabic literary tradition of contemplating ruins allows me to analyze the way ruins are interpreted and represented in contemporary Lebanese vernacular\, literary\, museological and poetic matrixes of memory. Through their evocation of the past via its ruin-traces\, the modern works under examination effectively transform the poetics of nostalgia to new affective and alternative imaginary spaces. It is precisely in the creative tension between the traditional and the modern\, the real and the imagined ruins\, where a contemporary poetics of memory lies.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/afikra-outline-memory-in-ruins/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220525T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220525T200000
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SUMMARY:Banipal Book Club: 'Things I Left Behind\,' by Shada Mustafa\, tr. Nancy Roberts
DESCRIPTION:This is young Palestinian author Shada Mustafa’s debut novel – a free-flowing narrative that interrogates\, in short\, direct sentences\, the memories of growing up\, falling in love\, that keep forcing themselves out to be reckoned with. Through ceaseless questioning\, and the seemingly random revisiting of each of the four “things” she has left behind\, the narrator redeems her life from the inexplicable pain and tragic anguish that was her childhood in an occupied and divided land and family. \nIn so doing\, Mustafa creates a unique writing style while at the same time allowing the narrative its original\, cathartic function\, liberating herself from her past\, and finding her true self. \nWhy was she always having to cross the Qalandia checkpoint to see her dad or her mom? Why did they divorce? Why was her mom angry? How could she make her happy? Why was her dad a different man when he came out of the occupier’s prison? What was more important\, the cause or the people? The questions become more urgent when she becomes a student and falls in love. \nThis short novel\, original in its subject as much as its narrative technique\, has been singled out from the start by being shortlisted for the 2021 Sheikh Zayed Book Award for Young Authors.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/banipal-book-club-things-i-left-behind-by-shada-mustafa-tr-nancy-roberts/
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Beirut:20220526T190000
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SUMMARY:afikra Book Club: Author Sabrina Mahfouz
DESCRIPTION:Join afikra as they interview author Sabrina Mahfouz on the afikra Book Club series. \nSabrina Mahfouz once sat in a Whitehall interview room and was interrogated about everything from her political leanings to her private life. It was ostensibly a job interview\, but implicit in their demands was the unspoken question: as a woman of Middle Eastern heritage\, could she really be trusted? Years later\, Sabrina found herself confronting the meaning behind this interrogation\, and how it was specifically informed by the British Empire’s historical dominance in the Middle East. “These Bodies of Water” investigates this history through the Middle Eastern coastlines and waterways that were so vital to the Empire’s hold. Interwoven with her own personal experiences\, Sabrina combines history\, politics\, myth and poetry in a devastating examination of this unacknowledged part of Britain’s colonial past. Part history\, part polemic and part intimate memoir\, “These Bodies of Water” is a tapestry of writing that tells the story of Britain’s relationship with the Middle East in the most revealing terms.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/afikra-book-club-author-sabrina-mahfouz/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220530T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220530T193000
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SUMMARY:An Evening With Shahd Alshammari
DESCRIPTION:ALQ contributor Shahd Alshammari will be in conversation with Archna Sharma (Neem Tree Press) about her new memoir ‘Head Above Water’. \nShahd Alshammari is an Assistant Professor of English Literature in Kuwait. She is also the author of Notes on the Flesh (2017\, Faraxa Press). The book was featured in many academic journals and was reviewed by disability studies scholars as well as gender studies scholars. Her essays have appeared in The Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies\, Life Writing\, Al-Raida\, Wordgathering\, and others. \nAlshammari’s struggle with Multiple Sclerosis has propelled her to write about illness in the MENA region both academically and creatively. Her PhD thesis centered on madwomen protagonists in Western and Arab literature and later her interest shifted to women’s disabilities and illness and the lack of representation in literature and media. She was also an invited speaker at The Malta Book Festival as well as The Emirates Literature Festival. \nMany students in the region follow Alshammari’s work and are able to relate to her struggles. Most of the lectures she has given involve university students and graduate students attending in order to search for their voices and experiences being represented. \nHead Above Water takes us into a space of intimate conversations on illness and society’s stigmatization of disabled bodies. We are invited in to ask the big questions about life\, loss\, and the place of the other. The narrative builds a bridge that reminds us of our common humanity and weaves the threads that tie us all together. Through conversations about women’s identities\, bodies\, and our journeys through life\, we arrive at a politics of love\, survival\, and hope.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/an-evening-with-shahd-alshammari/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220531T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220531T151500
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SUMMARY:Children’s Literature as World Literature - Sheikh Zayed Book Award
DESCRIPTION:In its ambition to connect with wider academic audiences\, the Sheikh Zayed Book Award is organising a series of four events between April and June in collaboration with SOAS\, University of London\, famous for its commitment to and its reach in the global south. Professor Wen-chin Ouyang\, with her connections in North America\, Europe and East Asia\, will host and moderate the events\, bringing to this series an additional multilingual and cross-regional flare. The interlocutors and guests include shortlisted and invited authors\, translators\, cultural thought leaders and scholars from around the world. All events will be bilingual (Arabic/English) and online. \nThis panel discussion will feature: \n\nProf. Wen-chin Ouyang (moderator)\nRaja Malah – 2022 SZBA shortlistee for the category Children’s Literature\nCharlotte Eyre – freelance journalist\, previously Children’s Editor at The Bookseller\nPam Dix – Chair of the International Board on Books for Young People UK (IBBY UK)
URL:https://arablit.org/event/childrens-literature-as-world-literature-sheikh-zayed-book-award/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220604T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220604T130000
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SUMMARY:Sonia Nimr's "Thunderbird": Book Launch & Teacher Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Join this online launch event of Thunderbird\, a YA fantasy adventure featuring a young Palestinian girl who must save the world. Participate in an author/translator discussion with Sonia Nimr and Marcia Lynx Qualey\, see lessons written for the book\, and get a copy of the book!
URL:https://arablit.org/event/sonia-nimrs-thunderbird-book-launch-teacher-workshop/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220604T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220604T183000
DTSTAMP:20260405T193706
CREATED:20220224T073856Z
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SUMMARY:Radical Books Collective: 'The Book of Queens' by Joumana Haddad
DESCRIPTION:Friendly discussion about the novel\, The Books of Queens. The writer Joumana Haddad will join us for the final half hour to chat with participants. Published by Interlink Books. This book club is organized by the Radical Books Collective in collaboration with The Markaz Review. \nDiscussion hosted by Bhakti Shringarpure
URL:https://arablit.org/event/radical-books-collective-the-book-of-queens-by-joumana-haddad/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220608T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220608T133000
DTSTAMP:20260405T193706
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SUMMARY:Independent and Alternative Archives in the Arab World
DESCRIPTION:This lecture with Kristine Khouri is part of the Middle East Librarians Association (MELA) Social Justice Lecture Series 2021-2022 season\, “⸮Neutral / حياد / بی طرف / tarafsız?: Heritage\, Colonialism and Diversity in Middle East Libraries and Archives.” For more information\, and to view recorded lectures from the last season\, see our page on MELA’s website (https://bit.ly/MELASJSeries). \nFor the last two decades\, the Arab world has seen an emergence of alternative archival initiatives and practices that operate between and outside traditional sites of knowledge production\, namely the fields of cinema\, art\, academia\, and civil society. These endeavors have come about not only in response to the need to document recent histories\, but also due to the challenges of doing historical research\, particularly research on the twentieth century\, as well as in response to the insufficiency of or dissatisfaction with existing official and national narratives and histories. \nThese initiatives\, endeavors\, and practices produce new narratives and alternative or imaginative histories of current and past times. Responding to and resisting dominant\, state-centered histories and discourses\, those behind these projects actively claim agency over histories through these independent\, grassroots endeavors. At the same time\, these independent initiatives are fragile and operate in precarious spaces with numerous challenges. The presentation will share a range of these independent archives/initiatives and ask about ways in which transnational and collective work can offer stability\, even if momentarily.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/independent-and-alternative-archives-in-the-arab-world/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220608T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220608T183000
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CREATED:20220603T162930Z
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SUMMARY:Reclaiming Palestinian Narratives in A Loveless World\, with Susan Abulhawa
DESCRIPTION:“Reclaiming Narratives in A Loveless World” chaired by Susan Abulhawa — Visualizing Palestine\, Makan & Al Shabaka Joint Campaign\nThis talk will take place on Wednesday 8th June 2022 at 5.00pm BST (12.00pm EST / 7.00pm Palestine time). The talk will last 1 hour and 15 minutes. \nAs part of the Threads of the Movement for Palestinian Liberation Joint Fundraising Campaign\, VP\, Makan & Al Shabaka present: ‘Reclaiming Narratives in A Loveless World’ with  award-winning author Susan Abulhawa. \nThe discourse on Palestine has been shifting in different directions since the turn of the 20th century\, marked by decades of struggle and labour by Palestinians and their allies. And as Palestinians came together last June under the banner of the Unity Intifada\, forming a collective front against Israel’s ongoing colonisation\, we witnessed in real time some of these ongoing shifts in the conversation. This shared moment helped to highlight the inaccuracy of the mainstream narrative and the international community’s refusal to acknowledge the lived experience of Palestinians or the realities of Israel’s apartheid and settler colonial regime. As a result\, the usual mantra of a conflict between two equal sides was increasingly being called into question. Yet\, while a more grounded understanding of Israel’s policies and practices is starting to enter the mainstream across North America & Europe\, much work remains to fully reclaim the narrative to one that upholds freedom\, justice and equality for all. \nIn this talk\, novelist and human rights activist Susan Abulhawa will join with Alaa Tartir of Al-Shabaka\, Aline Batarseh of Visualizing Palestine and Aimee Shalan of Makan\, to discuss the history and context of the changing perceptions of the Palestinian struggle\, what happens when the concept of ‘neutrality’ is disputed\, why narrative shifts matter\, and how — in an increasingly loveless world — they feed into the wider liberation movement. \nSusan Abulhawa is a Palestinian American writer and human rights activist. She is the author of the international best-selling novel\, Mornings in Jenin\, and the founder of the NGO\, Playgrounds for Palestine. Against the Loveless World\, her third novel\, was released in August 2020 to critical acclaim. \nAline Batarseh joined Visualizing Palestine in July 2021 as Executive Director. She is a community organizer\, activist and development professional. She has extensive experience working with Palestinian and international nonprofits whose missions are focused on advancing social justice and equality for individuals and communities that experience systemic discrimination. \nDr Alaa Tartir is a Program and Policy Advisor to Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network\, a Senior Researcher and Academic Coordinator at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva\, Switzerland\, and a Global Fellow at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). \nAimee Shalan is Co-Director of Makan. She is also a Trustee of Friends of Birzeit University (Fobzu)\, a policy member of the Palestinian policy network\, Al Shabaka\, and Chair of the British-Palestinian Council. Her previous roles have included: Chief Executive of Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP)\, Director of Friends of Birzeit University (Fobzu) and Co-founder and Director of Pressure Cooker Arts\, a not-for-profit arts and advocacy organisation. She has been a regular contributor to the Guardian and other media outlets. Aimee holds a doctorate in the Politics of Palestinian Literature. \nRegister for Free Here
URL:https://arablit.org/event/reclaiming-palestinian-narratives-in-a-loveless-world-with-susan-abulhawa/
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Beirut:20220609T170000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Beirut:20220609T180000
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SUMMARY:afikra Book Club: Author Raphael Cormack
DESCRIPTION:Join afikra as they interview author Raphael Cormack on the afikra Book Club series. \n1920s Cairo: singers were pressing hit records\, dramatic troupes were springing up and cabarets were packed – a counterculture was on the rise. In bars\, hash-dens and music halls\, people of all backgrounds came together as a passionate group of artists captivated Egyptian society. \nOf these performers\, Cairo’s biggest stars were female\, and they asserted themselves on the stage like never before. Two of the most famous troupes were run by women; Badia Masabni’s dancehall became the hottest nightspot in town; pioneer of Egyptian cinema Aziza Amir made her stage debut; and legendary singer Oum Kalthoum first rose to fame. It is these women\, who knew both the opportunities and prejudices that this world offered\, who best reveal this cosmopolitan and raucous city’s secrets. \nMidnight in Cairo tells the thrilling story of Egypt’s interwar nightlife and entertainment industry through the lives of its pioneering women. Introducing an eccentric cast of characters\, it brings to life a world of revolutionary ideas and provocative art – one which laid the foundations of Arab popular culture today. It is a story of modern Cairo as we have never heard it before.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/afikra-book-club-author-raphael-cormack/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220612T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220612T160000
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SUMMARY:Honoring the Memory of Muthaffar Al Nawwab
DESCRIPTION:The Arab-American Educational Foundation invites you to a special event to honor the legacy of the Iraqi poet\, Muthaffar Al Nawwab\, who passed away on May 20\, 2022. The event will be in person and in Arabic. Zoom option will be available: \n\n\n\n\n\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86720542126?pwd=OUkvRmszR3F6eWEvSUhGT05MV0xGUT09\nMeeting ID: 867 2054 2126\nPasscode: 646353\n\n\n\n\n\nThe event will be held at the ACC on Sunday\, June 12 @ 2-4 PM.\n\n\n10555 Stancliff Rd\, Houston\, TX 77099\n\nThe agenda will include:\n\n\n1- Writer and essayist Latif Adnan: Introduction\n2- Aziz Shaibani: life of Al Nawwab: A personal story\n3- Novelist Sinan Antoon: The significance of Al Nawwab on the Iraqi literary political discourse; will join from Cairo via zoom\n4- Poet and physician Fady Joudah: The poetic and revolutionary in the poetry of Al Nawwab\n\n5- Poet Raifat Al Bujairami: The legacy of Al Nawwab in the Palestinian context.\n6- Writer Jassim Al Mutair: With Al Nawwab in the prison; will join from the Netherlands via Zoom\n7- Aziz Shaibani: The Al Nawwab effect on the Iraqi songs
URL:https://arablit.org/event/honoring-the-memory-of-muthaffar-al-nawwab/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220613T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220613T143000
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SUMMARY:On Writing\, Motherhood and Care
DESCRIPTION:This conversation is about two feminist texts\, How to Mend: Motherhood and its Ghosts by Iman Mersal and Experiments in Imagining Otherwise by Lola Olufemi\, both of which explore care\, intimacy and politics. \nWe discuss questions of literary style through the use of photography\, poetry\, and personal writing\, as well as questions of politics through a focus on the intimate\, care work\, and how past experiences shape the future. \nThis is an inter-generational and transnational conversation: while both texts showcase place-based writing that is attentive to context\, they also transcend place and engage with a transnational feminist orientation that takes care seriously as a universal experience and as a political question. These texts are exciting examples of experimental writing and publishing\, demonstrating the power and beauty of feminist writing in our current moment. \nSpeakers: Iman Mersal\, Lola Olufemi\, and Mai Taha \nChair: Sara Salem
URL:https://arablit.org/event/on-writing-motherhood-and-care/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220614T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220614T151500
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SUMMARY:Global Arabic Humanities - Sheikh Zayed Book Award
DESCRIPTION:In its ambition to connect with wider academic audiences\, the Sheikh Zayed Book Award is organising a series of four events between April and June in collaboration with SOAS\, University of London\, famous for its commitment to and its reach in the global south. Professor Wen-chin Ouyang\, with her connections in North America\, Europe and East Asia\, will host and moderate the events\, bringing to this series an additional multilingual and cross-regional flare. The interlocutors and guests include shortlisted and invited authors\, translators\, cultural thought leaders and scholars from around the world. All events will be bilingual (Arabic/English) and online. \nPanel Discussion: \n\nProf. Wen-chin Ouyang (moderator)\nDr. Muhsin J. Al-Musawi – 2022 SZBA shortlistee for the category Arabic Culture in Other Languages\nAdam Talib – literary translator\, co-editor of Middle Eastern Literatures\, and scholar of Arabic culture\nProf. Xue Qingguo – professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University
URL:https://arablit.org/event/global-arabic-humanities-sheikh-zayed-book-award/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220615T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220615T170000
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SUMMARY:Najwa Barakat presents 'Mister N' In conversation with Luke Leafgren
DESCRIPTION:Greenlight Bookstore is delighted to welcome to our virtual stage luminous author and translators Najwa Barakat and Luke Leafgren to celebrate their joint achievement in the English translation of Mister N\, newly published by And Other Stories. In a story of misadventures both comical and tragic\, modern-day Beirut is seen through the eyes of a failed writer\, the eponymous Mister N. He has left his comfortable apartment and checked himself into a hotel – he thinks. Join us (virtually) for a very special reading and conversation with Najwa and Luke\, exploring psychological metafiction\, the human condition\, and more.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/najwa-barakat-presents-mister-n-in-conversation-with-luke-leafgren/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220616T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220616T200000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: This Arab is Queer
DESCRIPTION:Bishopsgate Institute are hosting Saqi Books\, celebrating the release of their ground-breaking new collection\, This Arab is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers.\nJournalist and editor Elias Jahshan will be joined by Mona Eltahawy\, Zeyn Joukhadar and Anbara Salam to share personal stories of hope\, struggle and love at this intimate launch event. We can’t wait to celebrate this important anthology that features the searingly honest and moving memoirs of eighteen queer Arab writers from around the world. \nThis is a hybrid event which will take both in person and online\, register here.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/book-launch-this-arab-is-queer/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220619T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220619T140000
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SUMMARY:Adabiyat Book Club: 'Silence is a Sense' by Layla AlAmmar
DESCRIPTION:Adabiyat Book Club will meet on Sunday\, June 19 at 12 pm EST via Zoom to discuss Layla AlAmmar’s novel Silence is a Sense. The author will also join for a Q&A session. To participate\, message the organizers on Twitter or Instagram @_adabiyat_ and find more info here: https://linktr.ee/adabiyat
URL:https://arablit.org/event/adabiyat-book-club-silence-is-a-sense-by-layla-alammar/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220621
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220623
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SUMMARY:Post-Millennial MENAWA: a 2-day Interdisciplinary Conference
DESCRIPTION:A two-day interdisciplinary conference – Lancaster University (online) 21-22 June 2022 \n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\n\nThis conference examines MENAWA creative expression through innovative lenses and new critical paradigms. We identify emergent trends across literature and visual media as well as networks of production\, reception\, and circulation (pedagogy\, literary translation & criticism\, publishing) in order to illuminate new approaches to understanding creative cultural expression from these regions. To that end\, we extend beyond established analyses of such forms of art and the dominant theoretical frameworks through which to view them. \nKeynote Speakers: \nMarcia Lynx Qualey (Arablit; Arablit Quarterly) – “Cinderella’s Bloody Slipper”: How Publishers\, PR\, and Critics (Re)-Fit Arabic Literature for English Translation \nDr Aroosa Kanwal (International Islamic University of Islamabad – Pakistan) – Frozen Grief: Muslim Geographies of Invisibility and Silence \nDr Maryam Ghorbankarimi (Lancaster University) – Redefining ‘Taboos’: A Postfeminist Reading of Ida Panahandeh’s Titi (2020) \nProgramme Highlights: \nBook Spotlight: Lindsey Moore in conversation w/ Rachel Gregory Fox on two new and important texts – Post-Millennial Palestine: Literature\, Memory\, Resistance (2021) | (Re)Framing Women in Post-Millennial Afghanistan\, Pakistan\, and Iran: Remediated Witnessing in Literary\, Visual\, and Digital Media (2022) \nTranslation Roundtable: A conversation on the philosophy and practice of literary translation w/ award-winning Arabic-to-English literary translators Leri Price (Death is Hard Work; Planet of Clay) and Sawad Hussain (What Have You Left Behind?) as well as Persian-to-English translator and linguist\, Dr Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi (University of Chicago\, USA) \nYou can find the full downloadable programme here.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/post-millennial-menawa-a-2-day-interdisciplinary-conference/
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