This panel will be led by leading expert on Arabic YA Susanne Abou Ghaida, who will be joined by three YA writers: by Palestinian-Jordanian novelist Taghreed Najjar, Syrian novelist Maria Dadouch, and Egyptian novelist and translator Ahmed al-Mahdi.
The Istanbul branch of Columbia Global Centers is hosting a workshop discussing the engagement of literary figures in the turbulent politics of the turn-of-the-century.
"Join us for a special event to discuss the newly launched “Palestine Voices” issue of World Literature Today hosted by Yousef Khanfar, who guest-edited the issue, and Daniel Simon, editor in chief of WLT, and featuring the contributing writers, poets, artists, and translators."
Join our panel as they discuss issues of translation, feminism, tradition and recognition in contemporary female Arab literature, in an exchange designed to open up fresh perspectives of women’s writing and Arab culture for everyone.
This panel will feature a discussion with Egyptian writer Ahmed Naji about his time spent in a Cairene prison for violating public decency laws in his second novel, Using Life. Being a prisoner forced Ahmed to examine the role of literature in society; meet the fabled Average Reader and a man named Rhinoceros; and confront […]
Sahar Mustafah and Susan Darraj will lead a virtual pop-up book club discussion on Adania Shibli's Minor Detail, which is this year's 1 Book, Many Communities selection from Librarians and Archivists with Palestine. Find more information on their Instagram.
For this event on translating children's literature, Sawad Hussain will talk about her translation from the Algerian Arabic of 'The Djinn's Apple' by Djamila Morani, alongside B.J. Epstein, who will be discussing her translation from the Swedish of 'The Bird Within Me'.
The Poetry Translation Centre writes that they are "very proud to present our first ever workshop on Kurmanji poetry. We will be focussing on the work of Iraqi poet Zêdan Xelef, who works in this dialect also known as Northern Kurdish."
The virtual conference is co-organized by Huda Fakhreddine (University of Pennsylvania), David Larsen (New York University), and Hany Rashwan (University of Birmingham), with special thanks to Rawad Wehbe (University of Pennsylvania). The conference is hosted by the Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation Research Centre (OCCT), University of Oxford, 22-24 July 2021.
