The Sheikh Zayed Book Award and SOAS are organising an event on "Translation and Cultural Exchange" featuring Nawal Nasrallah, Katharine Halls, and Prof. Wang Youyong, moderated by Prof. Wen-chin Ouyang.
This talk by literary historian Elizabeth Holt will explore the intersection of oil, modernism, and empire, to consider how pipelines and energy infrastructure curate Arabic literature.
Join Seven Stories Press and Haymarket Books for a launch of Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s important new book, 'You Have Not Yet Been Defeated'.
On May 4th at 5pm EDT, join The Common for the virtual celebration of Issue 23!
Rabih Alameddine, winner of the 2022 PEN/Faulkner Award for his latest novel, The Wrong End of the Telescope, will be in conversation with short story author Dima Alzayat (Alligator & Other Stories) for The Markaz Review, on Friday, May 6, 2 pm ET (19:00 UK). Zoom participants will be able to jot down their questions […]
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.
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.
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.
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 […]
