Book Launch: You Have Not Yet Been Defeated
Join Seven Stories Press and Haymarket Books for a launch of Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s important new book, 'You Have Not Yet Been Defeated'.
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The Common: Issue 23 Virtual Launch Party
On May 4th at 5pm EDT, join The Common for the virtual celebration of Issue 23!
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The Markaz Review: Novelist Rabih Alameddine in conversation with Dima Alzayat
Rabih Alameddine, winner of the 2022 PEN/Faulkner Award for his latest novel, The Wrong End of the Telescope, will be in conversation with short story author Dima Alzayat (Alligator & Other Stories) for The Markaz Review, on Friday, May 6, 2 pm ET (19:00 UK). Zoom participants will be able to jot down their questions […]
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You Haven’t Been Defeated: Book Talk with Sanaa Seif
A book talk with Egyptian revolutionary Sanaa Seif, former political prisoner and sister of Alaa Abd El-Fattah with renowned independent Egyptian journalist, Sharif Abdel Kouddous.
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Gaza Poet Mosab Abu Toha, in conversation with Mary Karr
The Markaz Review and City Lights in conjunction with the Middle Eastern Children’s Alliance celebrate the publication of Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza, by Mosab Abu Toha.
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afikra Book Club: Author Naomi Shihab Nye
Join afikra as they interview author of “The Turtle of Michigan” and “The Turtle of Oman” Naomi Shihab Nye on the afikra Book Club series.
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BCLT Research Seminar with Michael Cooperson – French Word Games, “Untranslatable” Arabic, and Global English
Al-Hariri’s Impostures is a twelfth-century collection of fifty tales written entirely in rhyme. Because of the rhyme, not to mention the riddles, puns, lipograms, and rare vocabulary, it has routinely been called untranslatable. Yet translators into Hebrew, German, and Russian have succeeded in re-creating it in their languages. A new English translation draws on the […]
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Getting our Hands Dirty: What’s so special about feminist translation (and translating feminists)?
Getting our Hands Dirty: What's so special about feminist translation (and translating feminists)? Round table discussion and Q&A.
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Arab Literature and Culture in the West and Beyond – Sheikh Zayed Book Award
The Sheikh Zayed Book Award and SOAS are organising an event on "Arab Literature and Culture in the West and Beyond" featuring Michael Cooperson, Robert Irwin, and Huda Fakhreddine, moderated by Prof. Wen-chin Ouyang.