Peter Cole, Iman Mersal, and Robyn Creswell
On the 29th November, The Elliott Bay Book Company will be virtually welcoming two poets with new collections: Peter Cole's Draw Me After and Iman Mersal's The Threshold.
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My Big Fat Palestinian Christmas
Beloved Palestinian chefs + food bloggers have teamed up with UNRWA USA this holiday for a festive cooking demonstration that helps refugees
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MENAWA Book Club: Hoda Barakat’s “Voices of the Lost”
Join MENAWA's virtual book club to discuss Hoda Barakat's Voices of the Lost (tr. Marilyn Booth) on December 15, 5 pm UK time. Email menawapocoreads@gmail.com to join.
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TPF School of Traditional Arts Lecture: A Conversation Between Calligraphers
Avielah Barclay and Joumana Medlej are both deeply engaged in the Art of the Book.n. They will discuss what each tradition learned from its neighbours – how different materials and techniques were incorporated or dismissed as different scribal traditions and religious identities engaged with them. They will also discuss what we can discern about the calligraphers' and scribes' state of mind by what is visible on the page.
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2022 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation
Celebrate the 2022 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation. Join Banipal online for an evening of inspiration and recognition!
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Literary translation: reading between the lines
In this 2½ hour workshop, critically-acclaimed literary translator Rosalind Harvey will teach you the nuts and bolts of the industry and give you the opportunity to take part in a creative translation exercise.
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afikra Conversations: Writer & Literary Translator Yasmine Seale
Join afikra as they interview British-Syrian Writer and Literary Translator Yasmine Seale on their Conversations series. Seale's reviews and essays on literature, art, myth, archaeology and film have appeared widely, including […]
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Adab Colloquium: Who Was a Good Poet in Sixteenth Century Damascus?
With ALQ contributor Haci Osman Gündüz (Ozzy)! Biographical dictionaries often also served as anthologies with—at times—detailed analyses of poetry and literary aesthetics. One such work is Ibn Ayyūb al-Anṣārī’s (d. […]
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MENAWA Reading Group March 2023: Haji Jabir’s ‘Black Foam’
MENAWA will be back March 16th to chat about Haji Jabir's IPAF-nominated BLACK FOAM We'll be joined for a Q&A by the novel's co-translator, Marcia Lynx Qualey! Email menawapocoreads@gmail.com for […]