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  • BCLT Summer School Publishers Panel

    This panel hopes to shed light on the decision processes editors go through when considering a title for translation, as well as to clarify what is the translator’s role when bringing the book into English.

  • The Markaz Review BookGroup: Ali Al-Muqri’s ‘The Handsome Jew’

    The Handsome Jew is a challenging and provocative novel that urges/ invites Muslims and Jews to contemplate themselves and the way they see the other through a doomed love story. This powerful novel tells the tragic saga of two lovers, Salem, a Jew, and Fatima, a Muslim, who fall in a forbidden, intense, and passionate […]

  • PEN Women in Translation Reading Series 2022

    Join PEN America's 3rd installment of their Women in Translation Reading Series 2022, featuring: Ibrahim Sayed Fawzy (trans.) and Rema Hmoud (Arabic) Caroline Wilcox Reul (trans.) and Andra Schwarz (German) Ali Kinsella & Dzvinia Orlowsky (trans.) and Halyna Kruk (Ukrainian) Arunava Sinha (trans.) and Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay (Bengali) Ellen Vayner & Slava Faybysh (trans.) and Ainur […]

  • Bringing a New Audience to Arabic Literature

    Bringing a New Audience to Arabic Literature Featuring Michael Cooperson, Sawad Hussain, and Chip Rossetti In 2018, the Sheikh Zayed Book Award launched the translation grant to foster the translation, publication, and distribution of Arabic literature around the world. In this panel discussion, Sheikh Zayed Book Award-winning translators will discuss the process by which they […]

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  • AGYA Salon with Fadhil al-Azzawi − Literature, Politics, and Experience

    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 introduce new literary talents and unknown texts to the public, presenting new thoughts, expressing human values, and providing a source for inspiration The AGYA Literary […]

  • afikra Conversations: Shawkat Toorawa

    Join the afikra team as the interview Shawkat Toorawa for the afikra Conversations series. Professor Shawkat M. Toorawa is a Professor of Arabic at Yale, he received his BA, MA, and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. He has taught Arabic at Duke University, medieval French literature and Indian Ocean studies at the University of […]

  • The Markaz Review BookGroup: Mai Al-Nakib’s ‘An Unlasting Home’

    When you live in a conservative society, you run the risk of censure. How far should a philosophy professor stick her neck out to make a point? Would you put it all on the line in the pursuit of truth or justice, or whatever informs your intent? An Unlasting Home, by award-winning short story writer Mai Al-Nakib, […]

  • *In German* International Translation Day: Arabische Bilderbücher in deutscher Übersetzung

    Ein Online-Gespräch mit Petra Dünges Am 30. September wird weltweit der Internationale Übersetzertag begangen. Zum diesjährigen Tag des Übersetzens haben wir beschlossen: Es wird Zeit, dass wir mehr über Petra Dünges und ihre wunderschöne Arbeit erfahren! Die gelernte Physikerin erzählt, wie sie zur arabischen Kinderliteratur kam und was sie dabei erfahren hat. Der Vortrag bietet […]