MENAWA Book Club: Noor Naga’s “If An Egyptian Cannot Speak English”
Lancaster Uni's MENAWA Book Club will have their first meeting of the fall season on October 20, 5 pm UK time, to discuss Noor Naga's If An Egyptian Cannot Speak […]
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Radical Books Collective: Translating Palestine
Writers, translators and editors celebrate new writing from Palestine. Featuring Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, Marcia Lynx Qualey, Alice Youssef, Sonia Nimr, Sawad Hussain, Jehan Bseiso, Louis Allday, Suchitra Vijayan, Meg Arenberg and Bhakti Shringarpure. Books in focus include You Can Be The Last Leaf by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat translated by Fady Joudah, Thunderbird II by Sonia Nimr translated by Marcia Lynx […]
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Book Talk with Yasmin El-Rifae – Radius: A Story of Feminist Revolution
Georgetown's Center for Contemporary Arab Studies is hosting a book talk with Yasmin El-Rifae to mark the launch of Radius, which tells the story of those Egyptians who organised to intervene in cases of sexual violence against protesters.
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Sarah Maguire Prize 2022 Readings – Najwan Darwish and Salim Barakat
Online readings from Najwan Darwish and Salim Barakat, shortlisted for the Sarah Maguire Prize 2022.
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Poetry Book Celebration! “You Can Be the Last Leaf” by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat
Maya Abu Al-Hayyat directs the Palestine Writing Workshop on the West Bank. She'll read poems & be in conversation with poet Deema Shehabi.
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AGYA Salon with Maha Hassan − War, Writing, and Freedom
The new event series ‘AGYA Literary Salon’ hosts both established and emerging Arab and German authors to discuss their literary careers, visions, and latest works. The Salon especially aims to […]
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Warts and All: Sustaining a Career in Literary Translation
Literary translator Nariman Youssef will chair a discussion with fellow professional translators Alice Guthrie, Anton Hur and Ruth Martin, to openly and honestly discuss the realities of sustaining a career in the industry. There will also be an opportunity for you to ask your own questions at this live online event. Nariman Youssef is a […]
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2022 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation Lecture by Hartmut Fähndrich
Hartmut Fähndrich reflects on the dubious pleasure of translating modern Arabic literature into German. This event will take place at the British Library. It will be simultaneously live streamed on the British Library platform. Tickets may be booked either to attend in person (physical), or to watch on our platform (online) either live or within […]
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Luminance: A Tribute Event For Etel Adnan
On the one year anniversary of her death, Mizna celebrates the life and legacy of the prolific artist, writer, and philosopher Etel Adnan in a conversation with some of her collaborators and peers, Kazim Ali, Andrea Abi-Karam, and Omar Berrada moderated by Mizna curator Heba Y. Amin. This conversation will be available to view starting November 14, 2022.