AANM presents a live bilingual poetry reading featuring an incredible lineup of poets: Maya Abu Al-Hayyat and Zeina Hashem Beck. Join us as the poets read excerpts from their new […]
Join an evening with Nadia Wassef to discuss brilliant new memoir CHRONICLES OF A CAIRO BOOKSELLER. Nadia will be in conversation with Will Smith, a bookseller at Sam Read’s, on […]
Join us as we interview author, Sahar Mustafah, who authored many books including The Beauty of Your Face, which will be the focus for this Book Club episode. The daughter […]
The new event series ‘AGYA Literary Salon’ hosts both established and emerging Arab and German authors to discuss their literary careers, visions, and latest works. The Salon especially aims to […]
Wednesday OCT 12 6:00–7:30 PM PST at The Poetry Center Humanities 512, San Francisco State University co-presented by The Poetry Center and Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies, SF State free […]
Over the last two decades, the term less translated languages has emerged to describe languages that are less often the source of translation in the international exchange of linguistic goods, […]
Professor Hammad discusses the life and legacy of Layla Murad, one of the most beloved and remembered Arab singing stars in the twentieth century, to analyze politics of sexuality, ethnicity, […]
Saïd Khatibi is a novelist, travel writer, translator, and cultural journalist, born in 1984 in Bou Saâda, Algeria. He writes in Arabic and French and translates between both. He has a BA in French Literature from the University of Algiers and an MA in Cultural Studies from the Sorbonne. Sarajevo Firewood is his third novel […]
This panel will discuss contemporary Arabic literature and literary translation published in the last dozen years, particularly following the onset of the ‘Arab Spring’. Distinguished international writers, translators and researchers […]
