Arabic English Translation: Today’s Landscape and Future Horizons
Join moderator Nariman Youssef and panellists Marilyn Booth, M Lynx Qualey, and Bishan Samaddar for a discussion on the contemporary translation scene and where we are heading next.
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ALITFEST 2021: A Tale of African Novels and Their Publishers
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.
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Arabic Pasts: Histories and Historiographies
This 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.
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Artists’ Talk Series – Fathi Hassan in Conversation with Najlaa El-Ageli
Join this SOAS event for a conversation between the Artist Fathi Hassan and curator Najlaa El-Ageli.
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TURATH 2021: Arab American Theater
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.
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Leaving Childhood Behind: A Conversation with Mosab Abu Toha
Leaving Childhood Behind: A Conversation with Mosab Abu Toha, Poet and Founder of the Edward Said Public Library in Gaza, moderated by Refqa Abu-Remaileh and Alison Rice.
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A Paper Trail Across the Lands of Islam
"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."
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Writing Fiction in the Arab World Today
Bilal Orfali interviews the Lebanese novelist Rachid El Daif about current challenges and the future of Arabic novels for the AGYA alumni lecture series.