International Women’s Day: Layla AlAmmar, Edna Adan Ismail, and Etaf Rum
Authors Etaf Rum and Layla AlAmmar, and woman’s rights activist Edna Adan Ismail, discuss their books, their favourite female artists and the women that inspire them.
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afikra Book Club: Kareem James Abu-Zeid
Join this interview with translator Kareem James Abu-Zeid about his translations of Rabee Jaber's novel Confessions and poet Najwan Darwish's collection Exhausted on the Cross as part of the afikra Book Club series.
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Khaled Khalifa: Writing in the Time of War
Khaled Khalifa will deliver the 2022 Banipal Visiting Writer Fellowship annual lecture on "Writing in the Time of War." He will be speaking about his own experience and reading from his novel Death is Hard Work.
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afikra Conversations: Lina Mounzer
Join this interview with writer Lina Mounzer as part of the afikra Conversations series.
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Lancaster Litfest: Layla AlAmmar & Leila Aboulela, with Lindsey Moore
Kuwaiti-American author Layla AlAmmar and Sudanese-British writer Leila Aboulela read and discuss their fiction with Dr Lindsey Moore of Lancaster University.
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MENAWA Reading Group: “The Monotonous Chaos of Existence” by Hisham Bustani
Join MENAWAPoco's March 2022 virtual book discussion, of Hisham Bustani's "The Monotonous Chaos of Existence" on March 17, 5pm UK time.
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Adabiyat Book Club: Malika Moustadraf’s “Blood Feast”
Join Adabiyat's March 2022 virtual book club! They will be discussing Moroccan author Malika Moustadraf's short story collection "Blood Feast" on March 20 at 12 pm EST.
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Bilal Orfali: “Islamic Law in Literature: Case Studies from Tanukhī (d. 384/994) and Hamadhanī (d. 398/1008)”
Bilal Orfali will be giving the DVP Bayard Dodge Lectures for Spring 2022, with the first of these titled "Islamic Law in Literature: Case Studies from Tanukhī (d. 384/994) and Hamadhanī (d. 398/1008)."
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Michael Cooperson: Rethinking Arabic Literary History
Join Michael Cooperson in this lecture on what a new history of pre-modern Arabic literature should look like.