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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20211014T180000
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DTSTAMP:20260404T210238
CREATED:20211006T155046Z
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SUMMARY:Writing Fiction in the Arab World Today
DESCRIPTION:In the emergence of the novel in Arab literature\, many have claimed to be the first. What makes this literary genre special\, and how has it changed the development of Arab literature? What role does the novel play in the Arab World today? Is there even a role for the novelist? \nAGYA alumnus Bilal Orfali\, Sheikh Zayed Chair for Arabic and Islamic Studies\, interviews the Lebanese novelist Rachid El Daif about current challenges and the future of Arabic novels to find answers to these questions. \nRachid El Daif is a prominent Lebanese writer and intellectual who plays an important role in the development of the modern Arabic Novel. His novels and poetry collections are widely received in Europe\, the USA\, Brazil\, Japan\, and Vietnam. Discussion panels\, critical articles\, scholarly monographs\, and collective works highlight his contribution to modern literature. \nThe conversation will be held in Arabic with simultaneous translation into English. If you want to participate\, please register here.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/writing-fiction-in-the-arab-world-today/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211016T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211016T173000
DTSTAMP:20260404T210238
CREATED:20211013T112918Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211013T112931Z
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SUMMARY:Une heure avec... Najwa Barakat et Lefteris Giannakoudakis
DESCRIPTION:Join this session with writers Najwa Barakat and Lefteris Giannakoudakis at the Institut du Monde Arabe where the two authors will be talking about their latest books. This in-person event will be streamed live via Facebook.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/une-heure-avec-najwa-barakat-et-lefteris-giannakoudakis/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211017T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211017T183000
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CREATED:20211015T063738Z
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SUMMARY:Mizna 22.1 Virtual Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join us in launching the summer 2021 issue of Mizna\, featuring readings by Hassan Saby\, Maya Salameh\, Nardine Taleb and Rania Mamoun. \nThe summer issue of Mizna’s award-winning literary journal\, Mizna: SWANA Literature + Art\, features a dynamic group of authors—many of whom are new to the Mizna community—engaging with and expanding the social realities relevant to the Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) experience and community.  \nIn this issue\, Mizna reveals a change to our subtitle\, now SWANA Literature + Art\, from the previous\, Prose\, Poetry\, and Art Exploring Arab America. This comes as a result of deep\, ongoing internal dialog about decolonizing and being more expansive in the framing of ourselves and our communities. In place of a foreword\, the issue features reflections from Mizna’s community about what the shift to the term SWANA represents.  \nContributors to Mizna 22.1 are: Andrea Abi-Karam\, Philipe AbiYouness\, leena aboutaleb\, Jessica Abughattas\, Sarah Ghazal Ali\, Arwa Alsamarae\, Yasmine Ameli\, Sara Elkamel\, Mariam Gomaa\, Farah Hamade\, Kaleem Hawa\, Nofel\, Nour Kamel\, Rania Mamoun\, Yara Omer\, Hassan Saby\, Lubna Safi\, Maya Salameh\, Nardine Taleb\, Alene Terzian-Zeitounian\, and Sumeja Tulic. The issue also features visual art from renowned Moroccan modernist Mohamed Melehi.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/mizna-22-1-virtual-launch/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20211021T090000
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CREATED:20211018T103926Z
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SUMMARY:Frankfurt Book Fair Livestream: Untapped Potential of Arabic Literature
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nThis is how you can attend the event: \nWatch this Frankfurt Studio event free of charge via the livestream at www.buchmesse.de. Fair visitors can watch live on our LED screen at the outdoor viewing area Agora. \n\nFind out more at the Frankfurt Book Fair website.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/frankfurt-book-fair-livestream-untapped-potential-of-arabic-literature/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211021T170000
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CREATED:20210920T182808Z
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SUMMARY:Book Discussion: 'Guapa' by Saleem Haddad
DESCRIPTION:Join MENAWAPoco’s first Fall 2021 virtual book discussion on Saleem Haddad’s Guapa at 5pm UK time. To participate\, email them at menawapocoreads@gmail.com and follow them on Twitter to see all updates.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/book-discussion-guapa-by-saleem-haddad/
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Beirut:20211021T200000
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CREATED:20211015T062449Z
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SUMMARY:SWAYING BODIES: A Conversation with Ahmed Abdul-Halim & Dima Daly
DESCRIPTION:The MENA Prison Forum is pleased to host a discussion of the novella it recently published; “Swaying Bodies\,” by Egyptian researcher and writer Ahmed Abdul-Halim\, with illustrations by Syrian painter Dima Daly. Ahmed Abdul-Halim and Dima Daly will join the discussion\, which will be moderated by Hana Jaber and Mina Ibrahim. \nLanguage: Arabic with English Translation \nPlease register by mail: mina.ibrahim@menaprisonforum.org \nDeadline for registration: Wednesday\, October 20\, 2021 by 11:59 Beirut time. \nAhmad Abdul-Halim\, an Egyptian writer and researcher born in 1995\, wrote “Swaying Bodies” as a description of prison experience. While he claims the work is fictional\, the visceral and sensory descriptions in the text render the reader deeply affected by the conditions described. Abdul-Halim’s words are additionally strengthened due to their accompaniment by illustrations of Syrian activist and painter Dima Daly. Whether this work is one of true fiction or a masquerading testimony of personal experiences\, the reader is shown how prison ordeals indelibly change those who experience them.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/swaying-bodies-a-conversation-with-ahmed-abdul-halim-dima-daly/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211022T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211022T123000
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CREATED:20211022T082250Z
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SUMMARY:Mini Symposium on Arabic Literature in Translation
DESCRIPTION:This mini symposium proposes to investigate modern Arabic literature in translation. The translation of Arabic texts has a complicated history\, incorporating publishers’ reticence to publish translations\, politics\, gender\, as well as difficulties of situating Arabic literature within the all-encompassing world literature. \nWhat gets translated and why? How are we the audience to read what is translated? Do these translations give us insight to Arab society and culture? What is the reception of these works? Why is the novel privileged over other literatures\, e.g. poetry? Is there a cultural reason or a publishers preference and influence? Indeed\, is there a preference for secular novels over religious texts? What is the power dynamic and relationship between these different strands? Our panelists will explore these questions as well as discuss the relationship between publisher and translator; text and translator; the relationship between author and translator.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/mini-symposium-on-arabic-literature-in-translation/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20211022T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20211022T130000
DTSTAMP:20260404T210238
CREATED:20211019T063420Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211019T063420Z
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SUMMARY:Frankfurt Book Fair Livestream: Publishing Arab Literature – Difficulties and Experiences from a Publisher's Perspective
DESCRIPTION:Arabic literature is diverse and has a long history. There are over 400 million Arabic speakers\, yet bringing Arabic literature to the Western market is a challenge. Why is that? Conversely\, which titles and themes particularly spark readers’ interest and sell well? How can Arabic literature be disseminated and which authors are currently worth discovering? And vice versa: which books by non-Arab authors could be introduced to the Arab market? What are and aren’t Arab readers interested in today? \nLena Bopp discusses these and other issues with Rasha al Ameer\, Piero Salabè and Yasmina Jraissati.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/frankfurt-book-fair-livestream-publishing-arab-literature-difficulties-and-experiences-from-a-publishers-perspective/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20211022T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20211022T140000
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CREATED:20211019T063700Z
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SUMMARY:Frankfurt Book Fair Livestream: It’s only a children’s book – The complexity of the supposedly simple
DESCRIPTION:A panel on the translation of The Lilac Girl by Ibtisam Barakat from Arabic into German \n\n\n\n\n\nFor some years now\, children’s literature has been receiving increasing attention and support from the book industry. Even so\, it is still often underestimated as an art. According to conventional wisdom\, writing and translating children’s books is easy. Is that really true or are appearances deceptive? What are the challenges of writing\, translating and publishing this material? What literature is suitable for children? What form should it take in terms of language and narration? What is the relationship between text and image? How serious can it venture to be? What is it meant to achieve? These questions will be discussed with Ibtisam Barakat\, Suleman Taufiq and Madjid Mohit.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/frankfurt-book-fair-livestream-its-only-a-childrens-book-the-complexity-of-the-supposedly-simple/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211022T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211022T163000
DTSTAMP:20260404T210238
CREATED:20211015T062847Z
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SUMMARY:Minor Detail: A Salon in Honor of Adania Shibli
DESCRIPTION:Join the Barnard Center for Research on Women and the Center for Palestine Studies for a talk with Adania Shibli.  \nAdania Shibli will be joined by Layli Long Soldier and Madeleine Thien to discuss Shibli’s haunting novel\, Minor Detail. \nAdania Shibli’s novel Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949\, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba—the catastrophe that led to the displacement and exile of some 700\,000 people—and the Israelis celebrate as the War of Independence. Israeli soldiers murder an encampment of Bedouin in the Negev desert\, and among their victims they capture a Palestinian teenager and they rape her\, kill her\, and bury her in the sand. \nMany years later\, in the near-present day\, a young woman in Ramallah tries to uncover some of the details surrounding this particular rape and murder\, and becomes fascinated to the point of obsession\, not only because of the nature of the crime\, but because it was committed exactly twenty-five years to the day before she was born. Adania Shibli masterfully overlays these two translucent narratives of exactly the same length to evoke a present forever haunted by the past. \nMinor Detail was published in Arabic in 2017 and translated into English by Elisabeth Jacquette and published by New Directions in 2020. The novel was nominated for a National Book Award for Translated Literature in 2020 and was longlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2021. \nFor the Helen Pond McIntyre ’48 Salon\, Shibli will be joined in conversation by novelist Madeleine Thien and poet Layli Long Soldier.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/minor-detail-a-salon-in-honor-of-adania-shibli-2/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211023T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211023T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T210238
CREATED:20211015T063319Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211015T063828Z
UID:45544-1635019200-1635022800@arablit.org
SUMMARY:Villainy: A Mizna Community Reading and Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Harnessing street protest as a poetic formation\, Andrea Abi-Karam’s latest book of poetry\, Villainy\, exhibits the desires that bring queers into public space. \nFeaturing readings by Andrea Abi-Karam\, Elmaz Abinaber\, Romaissa Benzizoune\, Tarik Dobbs\, and Nour Kamel\, followed by a conversation between Andrea Abi-Karam and Mizna Literary Programs Manager Ruba ElMelik. \nAbi-Karam has been published in our literary journal twice\, in Mizna 22.1 and Mizna 20.1. You can purchase their book Villainy here. \nThis event takes place as part of the Villainy virtual book tour series. \n 
URL:https://arablit.org/event/villainy-a-mizna-community-reading-and-conversation/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Winnipeg:20211025T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Winnipeg:20211025T140000
DTSTAMP:20260404T210238
CREATED:20211022T082909Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211022T082909Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry as Storytelling — A Conversation with Nathalie Handal
DESCRIPTION:This workshop brings together an interdisciplinary community to explore the intersection of two research agendas (1) thematically\, the study of violence and insecurity\, broadly-understood; and (2) methodologically\, the theory and practice of varied forms of story-telling as a way of accessing and expressing lived experience and human understanding. We plan to sponsor events related to producing and publishing story-telling\, scholarly discussions about the lived experience of violence and insecurity\, and interdisciplinary explorations of the nexus between story-telling and violence. We also plan to organize opportunities for workshop members to give and receive feedback on works-in-progress. If you are a Northwestern faculty member or graduate students would like to join the working group\, please send an email to Foroogh Farhang at ForooghFarhang2015@u.northwestern.edu. \nNATHALIE HANDAL’s published collections include Life in a Country Album\, winner of the Palestine Book Award and a Foreword Indies Book Award finalist\, and The Republics\, lauded as “one of the most inventive books by one of today’s most diverse writers” and winner of the Virginia Faulkner Award for Excellence. Handal is the editor of the groundbreaking classic The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology\, winner of the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Book Award\, and named one of the top 10 Feminist Books by The Guardian. Her plays have been produced at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts\, the Bush Theatre and Westminster Abbey in London. Her work has appeared in Vanity Fair\, Guernica Magazine\, The Guardian\, The New York Times\, The Nation\, The Irish Times\, Virginia Quarterly Review\, on PBS\, and NPR. Handal is a Lannan Foundation Fellow\, Pen International Croatia Fellow\, Centro Andaluz de las Letras Fellow\, Fondazione di Venezia Fellow\, and winner of the Alejo Zuloaga Order in Literature.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/poetry-as-storytelling-a-conversation-with-nathalie-handal/
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Beirut:20211026T190000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Beirut:20211026T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T210238
CREATED:20211001T090029Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211001T090029Z
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SUMMARY:afikra Conversations: Professor Tarek El-Ariss
DESCRIPTION:Join Mikey Muhanna as he interviews James Wright professor and professor of Middle Eastern studies Dr. Tarek El-Ariss for the afikra Conversations series. \nTarek El-Ariss is the James Wright Professor at Dartmouth College and Guggenheim Fellow 2021-22. Trained in philosophy\, comparative literature\, and visual and cultural studies\, he works across disciplines and languages to examine notions of the subject\, community\, and modernity in Arabic culture\, literature\, and art. His research interests include new media and cyber culture; literary theory and digital humanities; Nahda and modernity studies; travel writing and the war novel; sci-fi and utopia studies; 18th- and 19th-century French philosophy and literature; and gender and sexuality studies. He is author of “Trials of Arab Modernity: Literary Affects and the New Political” and “Leaks\, “Hacks\, and Scandals: Arab Culture in the Digital Age”\, and editor of the MLA anthology\, “The Arab Renaissance: A Bilingual Anthology of the Nahda.”
URL:https://arablit.org/event/afikra-conversations-professor-tarek-el-ariss/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211026T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211026T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T210238
CREATED:20211002T101837Z
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SUMMARY:Comma Press Event on 'The American Way: Stories of Invasion\,' with Fariba Nawa and Bina Shah
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday 26th October 2021 \n7pm \nOnline event \n\nThe American Way: Stories of Invasion re-examines US foreign policy with stories that explore the human cost of these interventions on foreign soil\, by writers from that soil. For this special online event\, Fariba Nawa and Bina Shah\, two of the anthology’s contributors will be discussing their stories and the events depicted within. The anthology includes stories translated from Arabic by Hassan Blasim\, Najwa Bin Shatwan\, and others. \n\nSPEAKERS: \n\nFariba Nawa is an Afghan-American freelance journalist based in Istanbul. She was born and raised in Afghanistan until she was 9\, then fled the Soviet invasion with her family to the U.S. in the 1980s. She authored Afghanistan Inc. (CorpWatch)\, an oft-cited resource in international debates on the effectiveness of reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan. She is also author of Opium Nation (Harper Perennial\, 2011)\, a personal account of the drug trade in Afghanistan and its impact on women. She is the host and chief editor of On Spec podcast. \n\nBina Shah is a Karachi-based author of five novels and two collections of short stories. Her latest novel\, Before She Sleeps\, was published by Delphinium Books in August 2018. A regular contributor to The New York Times\, Al Jazeera\, The Huffington Post\, and a frequent guest on the BBC\, she has contributed essays and op-eds to Granta\, The Independent\, and The Guardian\, and writes a regular op-ed column for Dawn\, Pakistan’s biggest English-language newspaper. She works on issues of women’s rights and female empowerment in Pakistan and across Muslim countries. In 2020\, she was awarded the rank of Chevalier in the Ordre des arts et des lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. \n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT: \nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\nTICKET INFORMATION: \nIf you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please choose a solidarity ticket. \nThere’s also a free access ticket for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \nAvailable via Eventbrite here.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/comma-press-event-on-the-american-way-stories-of-invasion-with-fariba-nawa-and-bina-shah/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211026T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211026T203000
DTSTAMP:20260404T210238
CREATED:20210928T150216Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Words Without Borders Gala
DESCRIPTION:The virtual gala will feature bilingual readings with some of the world’s most captivating literary voices\, musical performances\, and an opportunity to connect with a global literary community. With publisher and poet Daniel Halpern as chair and celebrated author and translator Jhumpa Lahiri as honorary chair\, this will be a truly special event. It will also help WWB continue to expand access to eye-opening international writing for readers around the world\, fostering connection and exchange across borders. \nWords Without Borders is bringing you not just one\, but TWO galas so you can attend at a time tailored specifically to your hemisphere: \n\nWestern Hemisphere edition: Tuesday\, October 26\, 2021 (7:00 PM EDT)\nEastern Hemisphere edition: Wednesday\, October 27\, 2021 (12 PM London (BST)\, 4:30 PM Delhi  (IST)\, 8 PM Tokyo (JST))\n\nThe event will also be recorded and available for streaming on the WWB Youtube channel after it takes place. \nCheck out the wonderful line-up and get your tickets here.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/virtual-words-without-borders-gala/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20211026T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20211026T213000
DTSTAMP:20260404T210238
CREATED:20211019T154413Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211019T154413Z
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SUMMARY:The American Way: Stories of Invasion\, with Fariba Nawa and Bina Shah
DESCRIPTION:The American Way: Stories of Invasion re-examines US foreign policy with stories that explore the human cost of these interventions on foreign soil\, by writers from that soil. It features\, among many other writers\, stories by Najwa Bin Shatwan\, Hassan Blasim\, and Lina Meruane. \nFor this special online event\, Fariba Nawa and Bina Shah\, two of the anthology’s contributors will be discussing their stories and the events depicted within. By presenting events from indigenous\, grassroots perspectives\, accompanied by afterwords by the historians that consulted on them\, this book attempts to bring some clarity back to the history of US interventions. \n 
URL:https://arablit.org/event/the-american-way-stories-of-invasion-with-fariba-nawa-and-bina-shah/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211027T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211027T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T210238
CREATED:20211019T153358Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211019T153407Z
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SUMMARY:Inrushes of the Heart: The Sufi Philosophy of ‘Ayn al-Qudat
DESCRIPTION:This lecture by Mohammed Rustom will introduce the life and thought of the famous Sufi figure ‘Ayn al-Qudat Hamadani (d. 1131). A student of Ahmad Ghazali\, ‘Ayn al-Qudat was a controversial religious judge\, philosopher\, and spiritual teacher who was put to death by the Seljuq government at the age of thirty-five\, ostensibly on charges of “heresy.” After coming to terms with ‘Ayn al-Qudat’s life\, martyrdom\, and self-perception as a teacher and scholar extraordinaire\, we will turn our attention to a careful presentation of his Sufi philosophy\, which in many innovative ways shaped the later trajectory of Islamic intellectual history. \nThis is a live event with a remote option available\, please register here.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/inrushes-of-the-heart-the-sufi-philosophy-of-ayn-al-qudat/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211027T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211027T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T210238
CREATED:20211026T083632Z
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SUMMARY:Xavier Luffin\, Dr. Günther Orth for James Murua Literary LiveStream
DESCRIPTION:Xavier Lufin and Dr. Günther Orth are the guests of the James Murua Literary LiveStream on Wednesday\, October 27\, 2021 at 18:00 GMT/ 19:00 WAT/ 20:00 CAT/ 21:00 EAT. You can join the stream\, brought to you in cooperation with Frankfurter Buchmesse with financial support from the German Federal Foreign Office\, on Facebook\, YouTube\, or Twitter. \nThe guests for the livestream for October are Xavier Lufin and Dr. Günther Orth and their topic will be; \nArabic writing in Africa\, Europe and beyond \nArabic is one of the most widely spoken languages in Africa and the Middle East as well as one of the fastest growing in many parts of the world. Its speakers have developed an advanced ecosystem of publishers\, writers\, prizes\, fellowships\, and loads more. \nOn our livestream this month\, we learn about the opportunities and challenges available to those who write in\, understand\, and follow writing in the Arabic language on the continent\, Europe and further afield. We also learn about the unique things in Arabic writing and publishing where genre and style\, as well as academia and models for commerce\, are concerned.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/xavier-luffin-dr-gunther-orth-for-james-murua-literary-livestream/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20211028T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20211028T193000
DTSTAMP:20260404T210238
CREATED:20211019T152838Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211019T152838Z
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SUMMARY:Times of War - A Conversation with Hoda Barakat
DESCRIPTION:Hoda Barakat’s writing has been praised for its classical\, Lebanese-inflected Arabic\, and for its bold exploration of ethical\, social\, and psychological collapse exposed in times of war. Barakat pushes the boundaries of narration by internalizing the war in fiction and interrogating the limits of language\, of its ability to capture violence\, madness\, and desire. All of her novels and short stories are first-person male narratives\, complicating gender perceptions and revealing how entwined sex\, violence\, and identity are. Barakat’s Arabic language unfolds through a uniquely poetic and philosophical prose. \nHoda Barakat is a Lebanese novelist\, who was born in Beirut in 1952 and currently lives in France. She has published six novels\, two plays\, a book of short stories\, and a book of memoirs\, as well as contributing to books written in French. Her work has been translated into a number of languages. She received the ‘Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres’ in 2002 and the ‘Chevalier de l’Ordre du Mérite National’ in 2008. Her novel The Tiller of Waters (1998) won the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature and has been published in excerpts in Banipal magazine. Her fifth novel The Kingdom of This Earth (2012) reached the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) longlist in 2013. In 2015\, she was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize. In 2019\, she won the IPAF prize for her novel The Night Mail and received the prestigious Montgomery Fellowship from Dartmouth University. \nAGYA alumnus Prof. Dr. Bilal Orfali\, Sheikh Zayed Chair for Arabic and Islamic Studies\, interviews the Lebanese novelist Hoda Barakat. \nThe conversation will be held in Arabic with simultaneous translation into English. If you want to participate\, please register here. \nIf you are interested\, you can find the flyer of the event in English and Arabic.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/times-of-war-a-conversation-with-hoda-barakat/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211030T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211030T203000
DTSTAMP:20260404T210238
CREATED:20211001T113021Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211001T113021Z
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SUMMARY:Between Two Islands: Live
DESCRIPTION:Between Two Islands is an evening of poetry and conversation\, exploring the relationship between Bahrain\, Britain and the British Bahrainis caught with a foot on either island\, co-produced by guest editor of ALQ WINTER 2021\, Ali Al-Jamri. \nIn January–February 2021\, fourteen Bahrainis living in the UK\, amongst them second-generation immigrants\, migrants\, students and diasporans\, came together to write poetry exploring their experiences as a community far from their heart’s homeland. \nThe workshops were funded by Arts Council England and led to the publication of the Between Two Islands anthology and The Future soundscape. It is the first Bahraini community arts project of its kind in Britain. \nNow performing a mix of poems from the anthology and new materials in both English and Arabic\, join the poets at Chapters of Us for a conversation on how new community links are forged\, and to explore questions of homeland and language in the midst of the pandemic. \nThe event will be live with an intimate audience in Liverpool and broadcast digitally. \nProduced by Ali Al-Jamri and Taher Adel\, with performances by and conversation with Ali Al-Jamri\, Taher Adel\, Fatema Abuidrees\, Zaynab Al-Khawaja\, Mohamed Arab\, Maryam AlSaleh\, and Jenan Alhasabi.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/between-two-islands-live/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211101T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211101T133000
DTSTAMP:20260404T210238
CREATED:20211027T125144Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211027T130933Z
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SUMMARY:The Pillow Talk and its Outcome: Approaching the Nights with Yasmine Seale
DESCRIPTION:The Comparative Literature Luncheon Lecture Series presents: “The Pillow Talk and its Outcome: Approaching the Nlghts” by Yasmine Seale (British-Syrian Writer) \nYasmine Seale is a British-Syrian writer. She lives in Paris. Her essays\, poetry\, and visual art have appeared widely — in Poetry Review\, Frieze\, the Times Literary Supplement elsewhere. She has translated many texts\, classical and contemporary\, from the Arabic and French. Her work has earned her a PEN America Literary Grant and the Wasafiri New Writing Prize for Poetry. She is currently at work on a new translation of the One Thousand and One Nights stories for W. W. Norton. Her widely praised translation of Aladdin came out from W. W. Norton in 2021. \n \n*Monday\, November 1\, 12:15–1:30 p.m. EDT 102 Kern Building or via Zoom \n*Presentation and discussion begin at 12:25 p.m \nYou can sign up here.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/the-pillow-talk-and-its-outcome-approaching-the-night-with-yasmine-seale/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211103T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211103T180000
DTSTAMP:20260404T210238
CREATED:20211026T083928Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211026T083928Z
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SUMMARY:Writing from the Arabian Gulf: The Common’s Issue 22 Launch
DESCRIPTION:On November 3rd at 4:30pm EDT\, join The Common for the virtual launch of Issue 22! Contributors Mona Kareem\, Keija Parssinen\, Tariq al Haydar\, and Deepak Unnikrishnan will join us from all around the world to read their pieces from our Arabian Gulf portfolio\, followed by a conversation about place and culture\, hosted by the magazine’s editor in chief Jennifer Acker and portfolio co-editor Noor Naga. This event is co-hosted by Amherst College’s Center for Humanistic Inquiry.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/writing-from-the-arabian-gulf-the-commons-issue-22-launch/
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Beirut:20211103T180000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Beirut:20211103T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T210238
CREATED:20211001T090419Z
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SUMMARY:afikra Outline: 'In the Time of the Apricots' with Carol Sansour
DESCRIPTION:Join Mikey Muhanna as he interviews The Sultan’s Seal coeditor\, poet\, and author of “In the Time of the Apricots” Carol Sansour on the afikra Outline series\, \n“In the Time of the Apricots” “ديوان “في المشمش is a collection of poems by Carol Sansour. The Palestinian poet calls herself post-gender\, post-national. The book in Arabic\, English and French.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/afikra-outline-in-the-time-of-the-apricots-with-carol-sansour/
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20211106T100000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20211106T113000
DTSTAMP:20260404T210238
CREATED:20211013T113512Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211013T113512Z
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SUMMARY:Building Other Bodies: A Conversation About Speculative Fiction In Translation\, With Mona Kareem
DESCRIPTION:This event brings together writers and translators of speculative fiction from Taiwan\, South Korea\, and Kuwait: Mona Kareem\, NEA-award-winning poet who translated Octavia Butler’s Kindred into Arabic in 2020; Bora Chung\, author of the short story collection Cursed Bunny (Honford Star\, 2021) and the collection’s PEN-Award-winning translator Anton Hur; Chi Ta-wei 紀大偉\, author of the 1995 queer Taiwanese classic The Membranes (Columbia University Press\, 2021)\, and the novel’s translator Ari Larissa Heinrich (translator of Qiu Miaojin’s Last Words from Montmartre (NYRB\, 2014)). The conversation will explore the craft of writing speculative fiction\, the challenges—both technical and institutional—of bringing these works into/out of English\, and the problems of race\, genre\, and geography. The 90-minute discussion will be moderated by Dr. Claire Gullander-Drolet and Dr. Dylan Suher (Society of Fellows in the Humanities\, University of Hong Kong)\, followed by a Q and A. \nThis event forms part of the 2021 Hong Kong International Literary Festival.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/building-other-bodies-a-conversation-about-speculative-fiction-in-translation-with-mona-kareem/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211107T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211107T140000
DTSTAMP:20260404T210238
CREATED:20211019T153818Z
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SUMMARY:Adabiyat Book Club: Omar El Akkad's 'What Strange Paradise'
DESCRIPTION:Join the Adabiyat Book Club for a discussion of Omar El Akkad’s novel What Strange Paradise. Find more information on their Twitter account and DM them to register.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/adabiyat-book-club-omar-el-akkads-what-strange-paradise/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211107T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211107T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T210238
CREATED:20211102T175759Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211102T175759Z
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SUMMARY:"I Want Sky": Print Edition Launch + Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join us in launching the print edition of I Want Sky\, a collection of writing honoring Sarah Hegazy’s one irreplaceable life\, and the lives of all LGBTQ+ Arabs and people of the SWANA region and its diaspora. \nIn celebration of the launch of this collection\, Wael Morcos who designed the print and digital versions of this collection will give a brief talk about the design process; AMA\, Nusaiba Imady\, and guest-editor Mariam Bazeed will give live readings of their work; + we’ll play pre-recorded videos of I Want Sky authors reading their pieces! \nThis event takes place IN PERSON on Sunday\, November 7\, 2021 at 6pm at Open Book\, 1011 S Washington Ave\, Minneapolis\, MN 55415. \nThose unable to attend in person can watch a livestream of the event on Mizna’s Facebook page. Add the livestream to your calendar here.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/i-want-sky-print-edition-launch-reading/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20211109T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20211109T130000
DTSTAMP:20260404T210238
CREATED:20211026T084300Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211026T084300Z
UID:46091-1636455600-1636462800@arablit.org
SUMMARY:Book Group and Author Visit: Layla AlAmmar - 'Silence is a Sense'
DESCRIPTION:Romancing the Gothic’s open book group is reading Silence is a Sense this week and will be joined by author Layla AlAmmar during the first half of the session to talk about her book and answer questions in a Q and A.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/book-group-and-author-visit-layla-alammar-silence-is-a-sense/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211109T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211109T201500
DTSTAMP:20260404T210238
CREATED:20211108T185420Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211108T185420Z
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SUMMARY:2021 National Book Awards Finalists Reading
DESCRIPTION:Every year\, The National Book Foundation teams up with The New School to present readings by each of the National Book Awards Finalists. \nThis year\, finalists Samar Yazbek and Leri Price will be reading from Planet of Clay.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/2021-national-book-awards-finalists-reading/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211110T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211110T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T210238
CREATED:20210927T064528Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210927T064528Z
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SUMMARY:Jonathan Wright: Change and Continuity in Contemporary Arabic Fiction
DESCRIPTION:Jonathan Wright will draw on his experience as a translator of contemporary Arabic fiction to examine and critique the assumptions that underpin a corpus of literature written in Modern Standard Arabic. \n\n\nThis is an online event hosted on Zoom. Bookers are sent a link in advance giving access. (Register here.) \nThis is the annual Saif Ghobash Banipal Translation Prize Lecture. \nJonathan Wright studied Arabic at Oxford and worked as a journalist for Reuters for many years\, mostly in the Arab world. He turned to literary translation in 2008 and has since translated more than 20 novels and other books\, as well as dozens of short stories. stories. He translated novels by Hassan Blasim\, Ahmed Saadawi\, Saud Alsanousi\, Sinan Antoon\, Mazen Maarouf\, Amjad Nasser and others. He has won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/jonathan-wright-change-and-continuity-in-contemporary-arabic-fiction/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211111T171500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211111T184500
DTSTAMP:20260404T210238
CREATED:20211108T184825Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211108T184825Z
UID:46406-1636650900-1636656300@arablit.org
SUMMARY:They cannot be imitated in English: translating the Arabic Impostures of al-Hariri (d. 1122)
DESCRIPTION:The best-known work of fiction in pre-modern Arabic was not the 1001 Nights but a collection of stories called Impostures. The hero is a hard-drinking preacher who can produce any kind of speech\, including puns\, riddles\, and palindromes\, on demand. Because of its over-the-top wordplay\, Impostures has long been called untranslatable. Yet it has been adapted successfully into Hebrew\, German\, and Russian. The latest attempt is in English\, and puts each of the 50 stories into a different historical\, literary\, or global style\, from thieves’ cant to Multicultural London English. Does it work? You decide!
URL:https://arablit.org/event/they-cannot-be-imitated-in-english-translating-the-arabic-impostures-of-al-hariri-d-1122/
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