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.
Join a panel discussion moderated by editor Zahra Hankir, with journalists Aida Alami, Eman Helal, and Heba Shibani on Our Women on the Ground: Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World – a book bringing together nineteen Arab women journalists to reflect on how they report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay collection. In their own words, they talk about what it’s like to report on conflicts that, quite literally, hit close to home.
Join TMR this Sunday for a conversation with some of the contributors to the GAZA issue, who will Zoom in from Gaza, Europe and the USA.
Signals of Hope Cairo: New Initiatives in Publishing Communities
Iraqi poet and writer Dunya Mikhail will give a virtual poetry reading/talk in Arabic on July 29 on the topic of "الكتابة الابداعية شعرا وسردا".
Join the launch of The Digital Guide to Theatre of the Middle East: 21st Century Volume (DGTOME) on Friday, July 30.
On Sunday August 1, there will be a virtual book launch for "In My Mother's Footsteps," by Mona Hajjar Halaby. "When Mona moved from California to Ramallah to teach conflict resolution at the Ramallah Friends School for a year, she kept a journal. Within its pages, she wrote her impressions of her homeland, a place […]
