This Symposium on Translation and the Making of Arab American Community will include a panel featuring Khaled Mattawa, Fady Joudah, and Dunya Mikhail as well as a reading by Dunya Mikhail.
The National Book Critics Circle will hold a panel with literary translators and critics, discussing strategies for book critics reviewing a work in translation.
In this talk, Dr. Mona Kareem (Tufts Center for Humanities) will share with us her research project around modern literature in the Arab Gulf. Kareem's project applies a transnational framework around literature in the Gulf, assembling a multilingual body of writings that share a geography. She considers the potentials of translation in challenging the borders […]
Join the Brooklyn Institute on Tuesday, November 23rd, as they welcome poet and translator Yasmine Seale for a wide-ranging discussion of the aesthetics, poetics, and politics of the "Arabian Nights".
Join Tom Tivan, Pam Dix, Salwa Shakshir, and Tom Bonnick as they discuss the market for global children’s literature.
Join the Banipal Book Club for a discussion of 'Sarajevo Firewood' by Algerian writer Saïd Khatibi, featuring its translator Paul Starkey.
To mark the publication of 'You Have Not Yet Been Defeated' by Alaa Abd El-Fattah, the event features recorded and live readings by writers Naomi Klein and Ahdaf Soueif, poet Seán Hewitt and sociologist-activist Ronit Lentin as well as a discussion between Annie Fletcher, director of IMMA and Hussein Omar, historian of political ideas.
Join "Evenings with an Author" (in person and online) to discuss a new translation of the "Arabian Nights" by award-winning poet and translator Yasmine Seale.
How do authors write in English about Palestine? How can they reach a global audience? Ahmed Masoud, Selma Dabbagh, Nayrouz Qarmout and Naema Aldaqsha discuss their work from London and Gaza.
