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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210924T190000
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SUMMARY:A Talk with Ahmed Naji About His New Book حرز مكمكم
DESCRIPTION:بمناسبة صدور أول كتب دار خان الجنوب: «حرز مكمكم» لأحمد ناجي، يسرنا أن ندوعكم/ن إلى حضور لقاء بين رشا حلوة وأحمد ناجي، يتناقشان فيه عن الكتاب والكثير من الأمور الأخرى في الأدب والسجن والكتابة والقراءة وغيرها من المواضيع…\nسيُقام اللقاء يوم الجمعة، الرابع والعشرون من أيلول/ سبتمبر ٢٠٢١\nالساعة السابعة مساءً بتوقيت برلين والقاهرة\nمكان اللقاء: صفحة خان الجنوب في فيسبوك
URL:https://arablit.org/event/a-talk-with-ahmed-naji-about-his-new-book-%d8%ad%d8%b1%d8%b2-%d9%85%d9%83%d9%85%d9%83%d9%85/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210925T170000
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SUMMARY:1-Day Translation Workshop: Translating Humor in Contemporary Arabic Literature
DESCRIPTION:Humor is one of the most difficult concepts for any writer or translator to engage with\, and yet undoubtedly the most rewarding when it’s done right. This course encourages you to translate humor from a range of genres in contemporary Arabic literature: memoir\, graphic novel\, short stories\, and young adult literature from across the Arabic speaking world such as Libya\, Lebanon\, Mauritania and Palestine. The framework of the course is based on Arthur Asa Berger’s classification of humor\, which groups over forty techniques into categories such as Identity\, Language\, and Logic. This framework will be explained in the class\, and a brief reading on it will also be provided prior to the workshop. \nIf you’re a translator working from any language into English\, you will be able to apply the techniques learnt to your own craft. If you are a writer seeking some inspiration from other literatures\, this class is also a great fit for you. \nBridge translations (literal translations from a foreign language into English that keep the original word order\, punctuation\, and multiple meanings of the original language) as well as the Arabic originals for each exercise will be provided\, so it’s up to you if you’d like to practice your Arabic reading skills when decoding a joke\, or work entirely relying on the provided English. The choice is yours! \nOutside of a short reading\, there is no homework for this course; students should come to class prepared to do group-work and in-class writing and translating activities. \n*If you’re enrolling in two or more Don’t Translate Alone classes\, email us at classes@catapult.co and we’ll send you a coupon for 15% off each DTA class!\n \nClass meetings will be held over video chat\, using Zoom accessed from your private class page. While you can use Zoom from your browser\, we recommend downloading the desktop client so you have access to all platform features. \nCost: $75 \nCOURSE TAKEAWAYS: \n– Confidence in identifying different types of humor in contemporary Arabic texts \n– Apply techniques learned in class to translated works in any genre \n– Ability to pinpoint what makes a humorous text funny \n– Experience of translating Arabic humorous texts into English \n– 10% discount on all future Catapult classes \nCOURSE EXPECTATIONS: \nBefore class: Students should read the Berger framework (a few pages that will be provided) to understand how we will identify and categorize humor \nDuring class: Lots of groupwork and pairwork. Come prepared to talk (and laugh!) \nSawad Hussain\n\n\n\n\nSawad Hussain is an Arabic translator and litterateur who is passionate about bringing narratives from the African continent to wider audiences. She was co-editor of the Arabic-English portion of the award-winning Oxford Arabic Dictionary (2014). Her work has been recognised by English PEN\, the Anglo-Omani Society and the Palestine Book Awards. She has run workshops with Shadow Heroes\, Africa Writes and Shubbak Festival. She has forthcoming translations from Fitzcarraldo Editions and MacLehose Press. She holds an MA in Modern Arabic Literature from SOAS. Her Twitter handle is @sawadhussain.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/1-day-translation-workshop-translating-humor-in-contemporary-arabic-literature/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210929
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211004
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CREATED:20210924T125901Z
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SUMMARY:Mizna 2021 Arab Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:The fifteenth edition of Mizna’s Twin Cities Arab Film Fest returns to Minneapolis–St. Paul September 29–October 3\, 2021. This year’s fest will be held in a hybrid format\, combining in-person and online film screenings and events. The in-person components of the festival will take place at Trylon Cinema in Minneapolis and virtual screenings will be accessible across the US.\n\n\nFull line-up + tickets are available here\nVirtual and All-Access Passes are available here
URL:https://arablit.org/event/mizna-2021-arab-film-festival/
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CREATED:20210924T124432Z
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SUMMARY:Translation as Activism: The Political Responsibility of the Translator in the 21st Century
DESCRIPTION:To mark this year’s ITD the Goethe-Institut London is looking at the political responsibilities of the translator in our turbulent times. How can translators take an activist role\, and is it their responsibility to do so? \nTaking part in the discussion are three protagonists whose work reflects on the role of translation in debates surrounding post-colonial literatures\, gender and race\, and their associated power structures. The discussion will be moderated by Charlotte Ryland of the Stephen Spender Trust\, and will feature contributions from Anna von Rath of poco.lit\, Canan Marasligil\, a literary translator\, and Yousif M Qasmiyeh\, Researcher on Refugee Writing at Oxford University. \nThis online event is part of the Goethe-Institut’s Artificially Correct project\, which aims to strengthen the position of translators by developing a conscious approach to Machine Translation\, and promoting awareness of social diversity and inclusion.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/translation-as-activism-the-political-responsibility-of-the-translator-in-the-21st-century/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210930T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210930T200000
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CREATED:20210901T114329Z
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SUMMARY:English PEN's International Translation Day 2021
DESCRIPTION:International Translation Day is back with a day-long\, online programme of events.\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nInternational Translation Day (ITD)\, the largest coming-together of the UK translation community\, is back. \nEvery 30 September\, English PEN hosts a programme of talks\, workshops and networking opportunities for literary translators. Following the success of ITD 2021\, this year’s programme returns in a day-long\, online format. \nITD 2021 is supported by the Booker Prize Foundation and ALCS.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/english-pens-international-translation-day-2021/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210930T190000
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SUMMARY:Arabic English Translation: Today’s Landscape and Future Horizons
DESCRIPTION:This event\, taking place on International Translation Day\, is for early and mid-career literary translators working from Arabic into English. We will explore the contemporary translation scene and consider where we are heading next. Where does Arabic sit in the world of translated literature? How has the reception of Arabic literature changed in recent years? What trends might affect future possibilities? Moderated by Nariman Youssef\, our expert panellists Marilyn Booth\, M Lynx Qualey\, and Bishan Samaddar will reflect on these questions\, and share their experiences of creating\, commissioning and finding outlets for work in translation. The session is free to attend. \nThis is part 1 of a two-session series looking at trends in literary translation between Arabic and English. Part 2 will focus on the movement of English literature into Arabic.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/arabic-english-translation-todays-landscape-and-future-horizons/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211002T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211002T173000
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CREATED:20210926T201817Z
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SUMMARY:ALITFEST 2021: A Tale of African Novels and Their Publishers
DESCRIPTION:This panel with Sawad Husain and Nana Awere Damoah\, moderated by S. Su’eddie Vershima Agema is part of the Abuja Literary and Arts Festival 2021. It seeks to explore the complexities that exist in the African Novel publishing industry.\nAs we know\, the dream of every African writer is to be published by an international publisher because that’s where you get the big dollars\, the big book deals\, multiple deals\, and funds for marketing and promotions. What this also means is that a lot of African Novels have their rights with international publishers.\nThe question now is:\n– Who owns a lot of our big African novels?\n– And what does this mean long term?\nWe also hope to explore some broader thematic issues of the imbalance of power between the West\, the Global North\, the Global South\, and Africa.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/alitfest-2021-a-tale-of-african-novels-and-their-publishers/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211003T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211003T150000
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CREATED:20210902T125603Z
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SUMMARY:Adabiyat Book Club Discusses: The Ardent Swarm
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URL:https://arablit.org/event/adabiyat-book-club-discusses-the-ardent-swarm/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211007
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211010
DTSTAMP:20260405T122201
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SUMMARY:Arabic Pasts: Histories and Historiographies
DESCRIPTION:Research Workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis annual exploratory and informal workshop offers the opportunity to reflect on history writing in Arabic. This year\, three days of the workshop will be held online and only Day 2 will be in person at the Aga Khan Centre\, London. We hope to welcome newcomers to the workshop and to encourage a lively discussion. The programme is exciting as ever\, with 25 papers treating history writing from the eighth century up to the present.\n\nPapers will elucidate the following sorts of questions:\n\n• What practices (through writing or otherwise) have different groups in the Middle East and North Africa used to encode their past\, and how have they engaged in remembering and forgetting? At different times and places\, how have the significant contours\, events and actors in their histories been seen? Was the significant past the same for court historians as it was for literary historians; for bureaucrats as it was for the military; for Sufis as it was for Muslim lawyers and Traditionists?\n\n• How did non-Muslims and Muslims\, men and women\, adherents of different sectarian or juristic traditions\, or speakers of different languages imagine the shape and meaning of pasts specific to their societal\, cultural\, religious\, linguistic or ethnic group\, in negotiation with the universal history of the Islamic community to which they (may or may not) have belonged?\n\n• How have urban and rural people\, workers and peasants\, the religiously educated and the technocratic elite\, developed different ways of writing\, remembering\, or commemorating particular events in\, or the broad sweep of\, local\, national\, or Islamic history?\n\n• In what ways do educational institutions\, museums\, media organisations and proponents of heritage use history writing in Arabic to shape loyalties and nurture a sense of belonging in the Middle East\, North Africa\, and Europe?\n\nThe following colleagues will chair panels and facilitate conversation:\n\n• James McDougall\, University of Oxford.\n\n• Leif Stenberg\, AKU-ISMC.\n\n• Hugh Kennedy\, SOAS\, University of London.\n\n• Sarah Bowen Savant\, AKU-ISMC.\n\n• Fozia Bora\, University of Leeds.\n\n• Karen Bauer\, The Institute of Ismaili Studies.\n\n• Arezou Azad\, University of Oxford.\n\n• Letizia Osti\, University of Milan.\n\nDate\n\nThe workshop will take place on 7-9 October 2021(London). Download Arabic Pasts schedule.\n\nRegistration\n\nIf you would like to join us online via Zoom\, register here.\n\nIf you would like to join us in person on the 2nd day\, register here.\n\nOrganisers\n\nArabic Pasts is co-organised by Sarah Bowen Savant (AKU-ISMC)\, Hugh Kennedy (SOAS University of London) and James McDougall (University of Oxford).
URL:https://arablit.org/event/arabic-pasts-histories-and-historiographies/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211007T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211007T183000
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CREATED:20210924T125427Z
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SUMMARY:Artists' Talk Series - Fathi Hassan in Conversation with Najlaa El-Ageli
DESCRIPTION:Join this SOAS event for a conversation\, in Arabic with simultaneous translation\, between the Artist Fathi Hassan and curator Najlaa El-Ageli about Fathi’s practice over three decades and across various localities in North Africa and Europe
URL:https://arablit.org/event/artists-talk-series-fathi-hassan-in-conversation-with-najlaa-el-ageli/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211007T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211007T200000
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CREATED:20210927T143714Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210927T143714Z
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SUMMARY:TURATH 2021: Arab American Theater
DESCRIPTION:Join this event organized by the Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies for a rich and engaging conversation with Arab American playwrights\, theater actors\, and producers: Kathryn Haddad\, Jamil Khoury\, Lameece Issaq\, and Malek Najjar. This panel discussion and conversation will be moderated by Catherine Coray\, a Professor of Theater at NYU.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/turath-2021-arab-american-theater/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20211008T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20211008T183000
DTSTAMP:20260405T122201
CREATED:20210929T163124Z
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SUMMARY:Leaving Childhood Behind: A Conversation with Mosab Abu Toha
DESCRIPTION:Part of the Literatures of Annihilation\, Exile & Resistance: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Global Middle East series\, this event will feature Mosab Abu Toha\, Poet and Founder of the Edward Said Public Library in Gaza.\n \nMosab Abu Toha is a Palestinian bilingual poet\, essayist\, and short story writer from Gaza. A graduate in English language\, he taught English at the UNRWA schools in Gaza 2016-2019\, and is the founder of the Edward Said Public Library\, Gaza’s first English language library (now two branches).  In 2019-2020\, Mosab became a visiting poet at Harvard University\, hosted by the Department of Comparative Literature. He is also a columnist for Arrowsmith Press.  Mosab’s poetry\, essays\, and short stories have been or will be published by Poetry\, Solstice\, Banipal\, Periphery\, Harvard Human Rights Review\, Kikah\, Middle East Eye.  In 2020\, Mosab gave talks and poetry readings at the University of Pennsylvania\, Temple University\, the University of Arizona\, and the American Library Association Midwinter Exhibits and Meetings. \nThis conversation will be moderated by Refqa Abu-Remaileh\, Professor of Modern Arabic Literature and Film at the Department of Semitic and Arabic Studies at Freie Universität Berlin and Principal Investigator of the European Research Council (ERC) project “PalREAD-Country of Words” and Alison Rice\, Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies and the Chair of the Romance Languages Department at the University of Notre Dame.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/leaving-childhood-behind-a-conversation-with-mosab-abu-toha/
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20211012T190000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20211012T203000
DTSTAMP:20260405T122201
CREATED:20210920T095648Z
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SUMMARY:A Paper Trail Across the Lands of Islam
DESCRIPTION:Paper\, perhaps the most common manufactured item in everyday use\, was invented in China over 2\,000 years ago. One thousand years later\, Muslims learned of it after they conquered Central Asia in the early eighth century. They quickly carried it and the techniques of manufacturing it across Eurasia and Northern Africa to the shores of the Atlantic. There\, some 1500 years after its invention\, Europeans started using and manufacturing it themselves. This talk presents the largely-unknown history of paper across the lands of Islam\, revealing how—long before the invention of printing—this remarkable medium transformed Islamic societies in many ways. \nSpeaker: Jonathan Bloom\, Professor Emeritus\, Department of Art\, Art History & Film\, Boston College \nRegister here.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/a-paper-trail-across-the-lands-of-islam/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20211014T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20211014T193000
DTSTAMP:20260405T122201
CREATED:20211006T155046Z
LAST-MODIFIED: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:20260405T122201
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
DTSTAMP:20260405T122201
CREATED:20211015T063738Z
LAST-MODIFIED: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
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20211021T100000
DTSTAMP:20260405T122201
CREATED:20211018T103926Z
LAST-MODIFIED: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
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211021T180000
DTSTAMP:20260405T122201
CREATED:20210920T182808Z
LAST-MODIFIED: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
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Beirut:20211021T213000
DTSTAMP:20260405T122201
CREATED:20211015T062449Z
LAST-MODIFIED: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
DTSTAMP:20260405T122201
CREATED:20211022T082250Z
LAST-MODIFIED: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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20211022T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20211022T130000
DTSTAMP:20260405T122201
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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20211022T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20211022T140000
DTSTAMP:20260405T122201
CREATED:20211019T063700Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211019T063723Z
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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:20260405T122201
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211023T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211023T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T122201
CREATED:20211015T063319Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211015T063828Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Winnipeg:20211025T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Winnipeg:20211025T140000
DTSTAMP:20260405T122201
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:20260405T122201
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:20260405T122201
CREATED:20211002T101837Z
LAST-MODIFIED: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:20260405T122201
CREATED:20210928T150216Z
LAST-MODIFIED: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:20260405T122201
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:20260405T122201
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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