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SUMMARY:Comma Press Event on 'The American Way: Stories of Invasion\,' with Fariba Nawa and Bina Shah
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday 26th October 2021 \n7pm \nOnline event \n\nThe American Way: Stories of Invasion re-examines US foreign policy with stories that explore the human cost of these interventions on foreign soil\, by writers from that soil. For this special online event\, Fariba Nawa and Bina Shah\, two of the anthology’s contributors will be discussing their stories and the events depicted within. The anthology includes stories translated from Arabic by Hassan Blasim\, Najwa Bin Shatwan\, and others. \n\nSPEAKERS: \n\nFariba Nawa is an Afghan-American freelance journalist based in Istanbul. She was born and raised in Afghanistan until she was 9\, then fled the Soviet invasion with her family to the U.S. in the 1980s. She authored Afghanistan Inc. (CorpWatch)\, an oft-cited resource in international debates on the effectiveness of reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan. She is also author of Opium Nation (Harper Perennial\, 2011)\, a personal account of the drug trade in Afghanistan and its impact on women. She is the host and chief editor of On Spec podcast. \n\nBina Shah is a Karachi-based author of five novels and two collections of short stories. Her latest novel\, Before She Sleeps\, was published by Delphinium Books in August 2018. A regular contributor to The New York Times\, Al Jazeera\, The Huffington Post\, and a frequent guest on the BBC\, she has contributed essays and op-eds to Granta\, The Independent\, and The Guardian\, and writes a regular op-ed column for Dawn\, Pakistan’s biggest English-language newspaper. She works on issues of women’s rights and female empowerment in Pakistan and across Muslim countries. In 2020\, she was awarded the rank of Chevalier in the Ordre des arts et des lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. \n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT: \nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\nTICKET INFORMATION: \nIf you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please choose a solidarity ticket. \nThere’s also a free access ticket for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \nAvailable via Eventbrite here.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/comma-press-event-on-the-american-way-stories-of-invasion-with-fariba-nawa-and-bina-shah/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211026T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Words Without Borders Gala
DESCRIPTION:The virtual gala will feature bilingual readings with some of the world’s most captivating literary voices\, musical performances\, and an opportunity to connect with a global literary community. With publisher and poet Daniel Halpern as chair and celebrated author and translator Jhumpa Lahiri as honorary chair\, this will be a truly special event. It will also help WWB continue to expand access to eye-opening international writing for readers around the world\, fostering connection and exchange across borders. \nWords Without Borders is bringing you not just one\, but TWO galas so you can attend at a time tailored specifically to your hemisphere: \n\nWestern Hemisphere edition: Tuesday\, October 26\, 2021 (7:00 PM EDT)\nEastern Hemisphere edition: Wednesday\, October 27\, 2021 (12 PM London (BST)\, 4:30 PM Delhi  (IST)\, 8 PM Tokyo (JST))\n\nThe event will also be recorded and available for streaming on the WWB Youtube channel after it takes place. \nCheck out the wonderful line-up and get your tickets here.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/virtual-words-without-borders-gala/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20211026T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20211026T213000
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CREATED:20211019T154413Z
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SUMMARY:The American Way: Stories of Invasion\, with Fariba Nawa and Bina Shah
DESCRIPTION:The American Way: Stories of Invasion re-examines US foreign policy with stories that explore the human cost of these interventions on foreign soil\, by writers from that soil. It features\, among many other writers\, stories by Najwa Bin Shatwan\, Hassan Blasim\, and Lina Meruane. \nFor this special online event\, Fariba Nawa and Bina Shah\, two of the anthology’s contributors will be discussing their stories and the events depicted within. By presenting events from indigenous\, grassroots perspectives\, accompanied by afterwords by the historians that consulted on them\, this book attempts to bring some clarity back to the history of US interventions. \n 
URL:https://arablit.org/event/the-american-way-stories-of-invasion-with-fariba-nawa-and-bina-shah/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211027T180000
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DTSTAMP:20260406T220549
CREATED:20211019T153358Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211019T153407Z
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SUMMARY:Inrushes of the Heart: The Sufi Philosophy of ‘Ayn al-Qudat
DESCRIPTION:This lecture by Mohammed Rustom will introduce the life and thought of the famous Sufi figure ‘Ayn al-Qudat Hamadani (d. 1131). A student of Ahmad Ghazali\, ‘Ayn al-Qudat was a controversial religious judge\, philosopher\, and spiritual teacher who was put to death by the Seljuq government at the age of thirty-five\, ostensibly on charges of “heresy.” After coming to terms with ‘Ayn al-Qudat’s life\, martyrdom\, and self-perception as a teacher and scholar extraordinaire\, we will turn our attention to a careful presentation of his Sufi philosophy\, which in many innovative ways shaped the later trajectory of Islamic intellectual history. \nThis is a live event with a remote option available\, please register here.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/inrushes-of-the-heart-the-sufi-philosophy-of-ayn-al-qudat/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211027T180000
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CREATED:20211026T083632Z
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SUMMARY:Xavier Luffin\, Dr. Günther Orth for James Murua Literary LiveStream
DESCRIPTION:Xavier Lufin and Dr. Günther Orth are the guests of the James Murua Literary LiveStream on Wednesday\, October 27\, 2021 at 18:00 GMT/ 19:00 WAT/ 20:00 CAT/ 21:00 EAT. You can join the stream\, brought to you in cooperation with Frankfurter Buchmesse with financial support from the German Federal Foreign Office\, on Facebook\, YouTube\, or Twitter. \nThe guests for the livestream for October are Xavier Lufin and Dr. Günther Orth and their topic will be; \nArabic writing in Africa\, Europe and beyond \nArabic is one of the most widely spoken languages in Africa and the Middle East as well as one of the fastest growing in many parts of the world. Its speakers have developed an advanced ecosystem of publishers\, writers\, prizes\, fellowships\, and loads more. \nOn our livestream this month\, we learn about the opportunities and challenges available to those who write in\, understand\, and follow writing in the Arabic language on the continent\, Europe and further afield. We also learn about the unique things in Arabic writing and publishing where genre and style\, as well as academia and models for commerce\, are concerned.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/xavier-luffin-dr-gunther-orth-for-james-murua-literary-livestream/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20211028T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20211028T193000
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CREATED:20211019T152838Z
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SUMMARY:Times of War - A Conversation with Hoda Barakat
DESCRIPTION:Hoda Barakat’s writing has been praised for its classical\, Lebanese-inflected Arabic\, and for its bold exploration of ethical\, social\, and psychological collapse exposed in times of war. Barakat pushes the boundaries of narration by internalizing the war in fiction and interrogating the limits of language\, of its ability to capture violence\, madness\, and desire. All of her novels and short stories are first-person male narratives\, complicating gender perceptions and revealing how entwined sex\, violence\, and identity are. Barakat’s Arabic language unfolds through a uniquely poetic and philosophical prose. \nHoda Barakat is a Lebanese novelist\, who was born in Beirut in 1952 and currently lives in France. She has published six novels\, two plays\, a book of short stories\, and a book of memoirs\, as well as contributing to books written in French. Her work has been translated into a number of languages. She received the ‘Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres’ in 2002 and the ‘Chevalier de l’Ordre du Mérite National’ in 2008. Her novel The Tiller of Waters (1998) won the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature and has been published in excerpts in Banipal magazine. Her fifth novel The Kingdom of This Earth (2012) reached the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) longlist in 2013. In 2015\, she was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize. In 2019\, she won the IPAF prize for her novel The Night Mail and received the prestigious Montgomery Fellowship from Dartmouth University. \nAGYA alumnus Prof. Dr. Bilal Orfali\, Sheikh Zayed Chair for Arabic and Islamic Studies\, interviews the Lebanese novelist Hoda Barakat. \nThe conversation will be held in Arabic with simultaneous translation into English. If you want to participate\, please register here. \nIf you are interested\, you can find the flyer of the event in English and Arabic.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/times-of-war-a-conversation-with-hoda-barakat/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211030T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211030T203000
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CREATED:20211001T113021Z
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SUMMARY:Between Two Islands: Live
DESCRIPTION:Between Two Islands is an evening of poetry and conversation\, exploring the relationship between Bahrain\, Britain and the British Bahrainis caught with a foot on either island\, co-produced by guest editor of ALQ WINTER 2021\, Ali Al-Jamri. \nIn January–February 2021\, fourteen Bahrainis living in the UK\, amongst them second-generation immigrants\, migrants\, students and diasporans\, came together to write poetry exploring their experiences as a community far from their heart’s homeland. \nThe workshops were funded by Arts Council England and led to the publication of the Between Two Islands anthology and The Future soundscape. It is the first Bahraini community arts project of its kind in Britain. \nNow performing a mix of poems from the anthology and new materials in both English and Arabic\, join the poets at Chapters of Us for a conversation on how new community links are forged\, and to explore questions of homeland and language in the midst of the pandemic. \nThe event will be live with an intimate audience in Liverpool and broadcast digitally. \nProduced by Ali Al-Jamri and Taher Adel\, with performances by and conversation with Ali Al-Jamri\, Taher Adel\, Fatema Abuidrees\, Zaynab Al-Khawaja\, Mohamed Arab\, Maryam AlSaleh\, and Jenan Alhasabi.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/between-two-islands-live/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211101T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211101T133000
DTSTAMP:20260406T220549
CREATED:20211027T125144Z
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SUMMARY:The Pillow Talk and its Outcome: Approaching the Nights with Yasmine Seale
DESCRIPTION:The Comparative Literature Luncheon Lecture Series presents: “The Pillow Talk and its Outcome: Approaching the Nlghts” by Yasmine Seale (British-Syrian Writer) \nYasmine Seale is a British-Syrian writer. She lives in Paris. Her essays\, poetry\, and visual art have appeared widely — in Poetry Review\, Frieze\, the Times Literary Supplement elsewhere. She has translated many texts\, classical and contemporary\, from the Arabic and French. Her work has earned her a PEN America Literary Grant and the Wasafiri New Writing Prize for Poetry. She is currently at work on a new translation of the One Thousand and One Nights stories for W. W. Norton. Her widely praised translation of Aladdin came out from W. W. Norton in 2021. \n \n*Monday\, November 1\, 12:15–1:30 p.m. EDT 102 Kern Building or via Zoom \n*Presentation and discussion begin at 12:25 p.m \nYou can sign up here.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/the-pillow-talk-and-its-outcome-approaching-the-night-with-yasmine-seale/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211103T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211103T180000
DTSTAMP:20260406T220549
CREATED:20211026T083928Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211026T083928Z
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SUMMARY:Writing from the Arabian Gulf: The Common’s Issue 22 Launch
DESCRIPTION:On November 3rd at 4:30pm EDT\, join The Common for the virtual launch of Issue 22! Contributors Mona Kareem\, Keija Parssinen\, Tariq al Haydar\, and Deepak Unnikrishnan will join us from all around the world to read their pieces from our Arabian Gulf portfolio\, followed by a conversation about place and culture\, hosted by the magazine’s editor in chief Jennifer Acker and portfolio co-editor Noor Naga. This event is co-hosted by Amherst College’s Center for Humanistic Inquiry.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/writing-from-the-arabian-gulf-the-commons-issue-22-launch/
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Beirut:20211103T180000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Beirut:20211103T190000
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CREATED:20211001T090419Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211001T090419Z
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SUMMARY:afikra Outline: 'In the Time of the Apricots' with Carol Sansour
DESCRIPTION:Join Mikey Muhanna as he interviews The Sultan’s Seal coeditor\, poet\, and author of “In the Time of the Apricots” Carol Sansour on the afikra Outline series\, \n“In the Time of the Apricots” “ديوان “في المشمش is a collection of poems by Carol Sansour. The Palestinian poet calls herself post-gender\, post-national. The book in Arabic\, English and French.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/afikra-outline-in-the-time-of-the-apricots-with-carol-sansour/
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20211106T100000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20211106T113000
DTSTAMP:20260406T220549
CREATED:20211013T113512Z
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SUMMARY:Building Other Bodies: A Conversation About Speculative Fiction In Translation\, With Mona Kareem
DESCRIPTION:This event brings together writers and translators of speculative fiction from Taiwan\, South Korea\, and Kuwait: Mona Kareem\, NEA-award-winning poet who translated Octavia Butler’s Kindred into Arabic in 2020; Bora Chung\, author of the short story collection Cursed Bunny (Honford Star\, 2021) and the collection’s PEN-Award-winning translator Anton Hur; Chi Ta-wei 紀大偉\, author of the 1995 queer Taiwanese classic The Membranes (Columbia University Press\, 2021)\, and the novel’s translator Ari Larissa Heinrich (translator of Qiu Miaojin’s Last Words from Montmartre (NYRB\, 2014)). The conversation will explore the craft of writing speculative fiction\, the challenges—both technical and institutional—of bringing these works into/out of English\, and the problems of race\, genre\, and geography. The 90-minute discussion will be moderated by Dr. Claire Gullander-Drolet and Dr. Dylan Suher (Society of Fellows in the Humanities\, University of Hong Kong)\, followed by a Q and A. \nThis event forms part of the 2021 Hong Kong International Literary Festival.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/building-other-bodies-a-conversation-about-speculative-fiction-in-translation-with-mona-kareem/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211107T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211107T140000
DTSTAMP:20260406T220549
CREATED:20211019T153818Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211019T153818Z
UID:45676-1636290000-1636293600@arablit.org
SUMMARY:Adabiyat Book Club: Omar El Akkad's 'What Strange Paradise'
DESCRIPTION:Join the Adabiyat Book Club for a discussion of Omar El Akkad’s novel What Strange Paradise. Find more information on their Twitter account and DM them to register.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/adabiyat-book-club-omar-el-akkads-what-strange-paradise/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211107T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211107T190000
DTSTAMP:20260406T220549
CREATED:20211102T175759Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211102T175759Z
UID:46264-1636308000-1636311600@arablit.org
SUMMARY:"I Want Sky": Print Edition Launch + Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join us in launching the print edition of I Want Sky\, a collection of writing honoring Sarah Hegazy’s one irreplaceable life\, and the lives of all LGBTQ+ Arabs and people of the SWANA region and its diaspora. \nIn celebration of the launch of this collection\, Wael Morcos who designed the print and digital versions of this collection will give a brief talk about the design process; AMA\, Nusaiba Imady\, and guest-editor Mariam Bazeed will give live readings of their work; + we’ll play pre-recorded videos of I Want Sky authors reading their pieces! \nThis event takes place IN PERSON on Sunday\, November 7\, 2021 at 6pm at Open Book\, 1011 S Washington Ave\, Minneapolis\, MN 55415. \nThose unable to attend in person can watch a livestream of the event on Mizna’s Facebook page. Add the livestream to your calendar here.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/i-want-sky-print-edition-launch-reading/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20211109T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20211109T130000
DTSTAMP:20260406T220549
CREATED:20211026T084300Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211026T084300Z
UID:46091-1636455600-1636462800@arablit.org
SUMMARY:Book Group and Author Visit: Layla AlAmmar - 'Silence is a Sense'
DESCRIPTION:Romancing the Gothic’s open book group is reading Silence is a Sense this week and will be joined by author Layla AlAmmar during the first half of the session to talk about her book and answer questions in a Q and A.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/book-group-and-author-visit-layla-alammar-silence-is-a-sense/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211109T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211109T201500
DTSTAMP:20260406T220549
CREATED:20211108T185420Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211108T185420Z
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SUMMARY:2021 National Book Awards Finalists Reading
DESCRIPTION:Every year\, The National Book Foundation teams up with The New School to present readings by each of the National Book Awards Finalists. \nThis year\, finalists Samar Yazbek and Leri Price will be reading from Planet of Clay.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/2021-national-book-awards-finalists-reading/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211110T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211110T200000
DTSTAMP:20260406T220549
CREATED:20210927T064528Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210927T064528Z
UID:45155-1636570800-1636574400@arablit.org
SUMMARY:Jonathan Wright: Change and Continuity in Contemporary Arabic Fiction
DESCRIPTION:Jonathan Wright will draw on his experience as a translator of contemporary Arabic fiction to examine and critique the assumptions that underpin a corpus of literature written in Modern Standard Arabic. \n\n\nThis is an online event hosted on Zoom. Bookers are sent a link in advance giving access. (Register here.) \nThis is the annual Saif Ghobash Banipal Translation Prize Lecture. \nJonathan Wright studied Arabic at Oxford and worked as a journalist for Reuters for many years\, mostly in the Arab world. He turned to literary translation in 2008 and has since translated more than 20 novels and other books\, as well as dozens of short stories. stories. He translated novels by Hassan Blasim\, Ahmed Saadawi\, Saud Alsanousi\, Sinan Antoon\, Mazen Maarouf\, Amjad Nasser and others. He has won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/jonathan-wright-change-and-continuity-in-contemporary-arabic-fiction/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211111T171500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211111T184500
DTSTAMP:20260406T220549
CREATED:20211108T184825Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211108T184825Z
UID:46406-1636650900-1636656300@arablit.org
SUMMARY:They cannot be imitated in English: translating the Arabic Impostures of al-Hariri (d. 1122)
DESCRIPTION:The best-known work of fiction in pre-modern Arabic was not the 1001 Nights but a collection of stories called Impostures. The hero is a hard-drinking preacher who can produce any kind of speech\, including puns\, riddles\, and palindromes\, on demand. Because of its over-the-top wordplay\, Impostures has long been called untranslatable. Yet it has been adapted successfully into Hebrew\, German\, and Russian. The latest attempt is in English\, and puts each of the 50 stories into a different historical\, literary\, or global style\, from thieves’ cant to Multicultural London English. Does it work? You decide!
URL:https://arablit.org/event/they-cannot-be-imitated-in-english-translating-the-arabic-impostures-of-al-hariri-d-1122/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211111T171500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211111T191500
DTSTAMP:20260406T220549
CREATED:20211108T185807Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211108T185807Z
UID:46416-1636650900-1636658100@arablit.org
SUMMARY:Khaled Alesmael in conversation with Lydia Wright and Suzan Meryem Rosita
DESCRIPTION:This public talk is part of the Syria Writes Mini Literary Festival. \nThe Syria Writes Literary Festival will run from Saturday 30 October to Friday 26 November. It will feature public talks from Syrian authors and activists and intimate lunch-time conversations with some of Syria’s most beloved authors. The Festival is co-hosted by Suzan Meryem Rosita\, Curator of Syria and Silence\, and Mohamed-Salah Omri\, Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature. \nKhaled Alesmael is a Syrian author\, journalist and short film maker based in London. In his exile\, he has gone on to write two queer books and poems\, including Selamlik\, regarded by many as one the first homoerotic perspective of the Syrian war. Selamlik\, the title of which brings to mind hope for change and freedom\, tells the story of Furat his childhood and journey from war-torn Syria to Sweden as a refugee. The book\, which bears many parallels to Khaled’s own journey\, has been widely acclaimed as a powerful account of an emergent Arab queer identity\, his writing has been compared to Jean Genet’s in the Swedish media\, published in Swedish and German and soon in different languages. Khaled received an award for his short\, Coffee with Sukkar\, at the Gothenburg Film Festival in 2019 and went on to win the Swedish Radio Award 2020 for his short story A Cotton Bag Carries Damascus. In the Meantime His debut Selamlik is the shortlist of Skoutz Award in Germany.Khaled was an accomplished radio journalist before he left Syria and worked in a major cities in the MENA and Europe. He claimed asylum in Sweden and he is a Swedish citizen now.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/khaled-alesmael-in-conversation-with-lydia-wright-and-suzan-meryem-rosita/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20211113T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20211113T130000
DTSTAMP:20260406T220549
CREATED:20211102T175105Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211102T175105Z
UID:46259-1636801200-1636808400@arablit.org
SUMMARY:The Arab Feminist Gothics - From 1001 Nights to Nawal El Saadawi
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Roxanne Douglas will sketch how contemporary Arab feminist writers draw on literary histories such as the 1001 Nights and local folklore to write in a localised version of feminist Gothic tropes\, from the haunted house\, qarina spirit doubles\, madness\, and ghosts in order to explore feminist sensibilities in places like Lebanon and Egypt.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/the-arab-feminist-gothics-from-1001-nights-to-nawal-el-saadawi/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211113T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211113T183000
DTSTAMP:20260406T220549
CREATED:20211022T083420Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211022T083420Z
UID:45991-1636822800-1636828200@arablit.org
SUMMARY:2021 Arab American Book Awards: A Ceremony of Live Readings
DESCRIPTION:Join the 2021 Arab American Book Award winners and honorable mentions\, featuring awardees Susan Abulhawa\, Sarah M.A. Gualtieri\, Helen Zughaib\, George Abraham\, Noor Naga\, Aya Khalil\, Anait Semirdzhyan\, Susan Muaddi Darraj\, Dima Alzayat and Sirène Harb for a celebratory live reading\, hosted by artist-in-residence Fargo Tbakhi!
URL:https://arablit.org/event/2021-arab-american-book-awards-a-ceremony-of-live-readings/
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20211113T180000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20211113T190000
DTSTAMP:20260406T220549
CREATED:20211102T165422Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211102T165454Z
UID:46254-1636826400-1636830000@arablit.org
SUMMARY:Book Launch: "Gigi and Ali's Rabit" by Ameer Hamad
DESCRIPTION:Join live or via Facebook for this book launch of Palestinian writer and ALQ contributor Ameer Hamad’s first short story collection Gigi and Ali’s Rabit\, including a talk between the author and writer May Kaluti.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/book-launch-gigi-and-alis-rabit/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Puerto_Rico:20211116T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Puerto_Rico:20211116T130000
DTSTAMP:20260406T220549
CREATED:20210914T165850Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210914T165850Z
UID:44921-1637064000-1637067600@arablit.org
SUMMARY:Kitab Talk: "Grooves and Waves: Phonograph Records as Historical Sources in the Digital Age" with Christopher Silver
DESCRIPTION:In the decades following the advent of the phonograph at the end of the nineteenth century\, thousands of shellac records circulated across the Middle East and North Africa. Etched between their grooves were a stunning array of popular\, classical\, and folkloric songs\, sketches and monologues\, and the otherwise sublime sounds of an extended era of profound change. At mid-twentieth century\, in the midst of decolonization\, mass migration\, as well as the appearance of vinyl\, most of the region’s earliest phonograph records disappeared––or at least were thought to. This presentation focuses on a particular aspect of that musical history: the birth of the recording industry in French colonial North Africa and the outsized role played by a minority of Arabophone Jewish musicians and impresarios therein. To do so\, it provides a case study of Gharamophone.com\, an online archive launched in 2017 to recover\, digitize\, and provide historical context for the Moroccan\, Algerian\, and Tunisian 78 rpm records that animated more than half a century. \nSpeaker:\nDr. Christopher Silver\, Segal Family Assistant Professor in Jewish History and Culture\, McGill University; and curator\, Gharamophone.com \nThe Kitab Talk series is a program of the Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies and the University Libraries at UNC-Chapel Hill.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/kitab-talk-grooves-and-waves-phonograph-records-as-historical-sources-in-the-digital-age-with-christopher-silver/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211116T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211116T190000
DTSTAMP:20260406T220549
CREATED:20211014T074441Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211014T074451Z
UID:45488-1637082000-1637089200@arablit.org
SUMMARY:The Almond Blossom Knows Its Life Is Short: Poetry of Palestinian Women in Translation
DESCRIPTION:A class by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha \nTuesday\, November 16\, 2021\n5:00 pm – 7:00 pm \nor \nSaturday\, November 20\, 2021\n10:00 am – 12:00 pm \nHow do these poets tend to loss? How do they engage with their interiors while living in varying states of siege\, occupation\, or exile? What are their obsessions? Which mythologies do they reject and which others do they remake? Together we’ll read across generations\, including poems by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat\, Asmaa’ Azaizeh\, Ahlam Bisharat\, Laila Al-Sa’ih\, and Fadwa Touqan. Join us to reflect together on theme and structure; to encounter texts in the original Arabic alongside the translations; and to end with a writing prompt inspired by our exploration. \nFormat: Online via Zoom \nAccessibility: This class will be conducted in spoken English and may include audiovisual materials such as slides and videos. Please contact the organizers with special accessibility requests. If you have any questions regarding the class\, please email openpoetrybooks@gmail.com.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/the-almond-blossom-knows-its-life-is-short-poetry-of-palestinian-women-in-translation/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20211117T113000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20211117T123000
DTSTAMP:20260406T220549
CREATED:20211111T123326Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211111T123326Z
UID:46488-1637148600-1637152200@arablit.org
SUMMARY:Rehab Bassam on Publishing\, Writing\, and Translating Arabic Children's Literature
DESCRIPTION:Learn all about a children’s book journey from writing to publishing from a seasoned children’s books translator and editor.\n\nThe event will be on Wednesday November 17\, 2021 from 11:30 am -12:30 noon Cairo time and it will be mostly in Egyptian Arabic. It will be recorded.\n\nSign up here:\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-give-your-book-wings-tickets-208478594087\n\nAbout Rehab Bassam:\n\nRehab Bassam is a seasoned wordsmith with many hats. The hat she thinks suits her most is that of a translator and editor of children’s books. She has worked in translation for several sectors\, but translating children’s books is her passion\, although a very challenging one. Over ten years\, Rehab worked for one of Egypt’s largest publishing houses – Dar El Shorouk\, as a translator\, editor\, and publishing manager; with a special focus on children’s books. She had the privilege of working with numerous authors and illustrators of children’s books\, in Egypt and the Arab world. \nRehab translated some of the Mr Men and Little Miss titles into Arabic\, like Mr Tickle and Little Miss Sunshine. Recently\, two of her translated books\, All About Feelings and All About Friends\, were among the children nonfiction bestsellers at the Cairo Book Fair 2021 over the summer. Moreover\, she edited a 10-book series titled “Our Folktales”\, that will be published soon by Makouk. \nRehab is currently based in Newcastle\, UK\, where she teaches Arabic in an engaging and fun way to children under her franchise of the Kalamna Arabic School. She collaborated and edited a 10-book series of the Kalamna PhonicsTM graded readers to help children read Arabic. Rehab used to be a prolific blogger that her online writings got edited and published in a small pink book titled “Rice Pudding for Two” (Dar El Shorouk\, 2008). One of her short stories got published and translated by Mada Masr. More recently\, two additional short stories got translated and published by ArabLit Quarterly. Rehab holds a BA in English Literature from Ain Shams University and studied written and simultaneous translation at the American University in Cairo. \n 
URL:https://arablit.org/event/rehab-bassam-on-publishing-writing-and-translating-arabic-childrens-literature/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211117T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211117T200000
DTSTAMP:20260406T220549
CREATED:20211115T190227Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211115T190227Z
UID:46626-1637175600-1637179200@arablit.org
SUMMARY:Translation as Haven: Dwelling in the Language of the In-Between
DESCRIPTION:Emma Ramadan will discuss her relationship to translation and how translating texts that exist outside the domain of classical French—particularly experimental literature and works from North Africa and the Arab World—has opened up space for new language and new meanings\, and in turn allowed for the discovery of a personal haven in the in-between. \nIn the contemporary French-language cultural scene\, literary writing from North Africa stands out for stylistic boldness\, social\, sexual and gender politics\, and tough wrestling with the legacies of colonial history. Emma Ramadan is one of the most highly esteemed translators of writing from Lebanon\, Morocco\, Algeria and Tunisia. “I write in French to tell the French that I am not French\,” say a number of prominent authors\, even as they push and pull and dig into the language of their education\, never letting it be forgotten that Arabic\, with its dialects and sociolects\, as well as the Berber languages\, are ever present—in texture\, rhythm\, allusions\, linguistic ghosts and powerful hauntings. Ramadan will read excerpts from her translations\, including Abdellah Taïa’s A Country for Dying\, Anne Garréta’s In Concrete and Sphinx\, Kamel Daoud’s Zabor\, or the Psalms\, and a co-translation of Marguerite Duras’s Me & Other Writing.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/translation-as-haven-dwelling-in-the-language-of-the-in-between/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211118
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211125
DTSTAMP:20260406T220549
CREATED:20211015T062107Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211015T062107Z
UID:45532-1637193600-1637798399@arablit.org
SUMMARY:2021 San Francisco Arab Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:The flagship event of the Arab Film and Media Institute\, the Arab Film Festival is the longest running independent festival of its kind in North America. Launched in 1996\, the festival’s mission is to present the best of contemporary films that illuminate the richness of Arab culture through authentic narratives and images\, providing insight into the beauty and complexity of the Arab world. \nThe festival also offers special programming to local audiences\, and unprecedented access to the diversity and range of authentic Arab experiences. The festival has gained an international reputation for excellence and offers its audiences access to media that reflects the lives of under-represented and provocative themes and groups on a cultural and societal level. \nThe 25th edition runs November 18-24\, 2021\, in-person throughout the San Francisco Bay Area\, with a virtual track open nationally.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/2021-san-francisco-arab-film-festival/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211118T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211118T180000
DTSTAMP:20260406T220549
CREATED:20210920T183019Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210920T183051Z
UID:45074-1637254800-1637258400@arablit.org
SUMMARY:Book Discussion: 'Slipping' by Mohamed Kheir
DESCRIPTION:Join MENAWAPoco’s second Fall 2021 virtual book discussion on Mohamed Kheir’s Slipping at 5pm UK time. To participate\, email them at menawapocoreads@gmail.com and follow them on Twitter to see all updates.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/book-discussion-slipping-by-mohamed-kheir/
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Cairo:20211118T170000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Cairo:20211118T180000
DTSTAMP:20260406T220549
CREATED:20211117T185739Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211117T185739Z
UID:46746-1637254800-1637258400@arablit.org
SUMMARY:YOU HAVE NOT YET BEEN DEFEATED: A virtual reading event in solidarity with Alaa Abd El Fattah
DESCRIPTION:On the 18th of November\, Alaa will turn 40. As he spends another birthday in jail\, not allowed to read books\, his book You Have Not Yet Been Defeated sees the light. Join Access Now and The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (TIMEP) in a virtual reading event and a celebration of Alaa’s vision. \nOpening Remarks:\nBrett Solomon\, Executive Director\, Access Now\nRamy Yaacoub\, Executive Director\, The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (TIMEP) \nReading Sections:\nMelody Patry\, Advocacy Director\, Access Now\nWafa Moustafa\, Syrian Journalist and activist\nDr. Ahdaf Soueif\, Egyptian novelist\nRamy Raoof\, Privacy technologist \nLive discussion:\nMarwa Fatfta\, MENA Policy Manager\, Access Now\nJillian York\, Director for International Freedom Of Expression\, EFF\nMohamad Najem\, Executive Director\, Social Media Exchange (SMEX)\nLina Attallah\, Journalist and Co-Founder of Mada Masr
URL:https://arablit.org/event/you-have-not-yet-been-defeated-a-virtual-reading-event-in-solidarity-with-alaa-abd-el-fattah/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211120T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211120T200000
DTSTAMP:20260406T220549
CREATED:20210901T114816Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210901T114816Z
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SUMMARY:Radical Foundations! Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi
DESCRIPTION:RADICAL FOUNDATIONS \nThis masterclass on Egyptian writer and feminism Nawal el Saadawi’s groundbreaking book Woman at Point Zero is organized in collaboration with the Adabiyat Book Club. \nClick here to get a copy of your book!\n*Sign up and we’ll send you a discount code to get 35% off* \nPublished by Zed Books/Bloomsbury. \nAbout the novel\nOriginally published in Arabic in 1975\, el Saadawi’s book was plagued with controversy from the very beginning. The writer’s expressly feminist activism have consistently undergirded her and even landed her in black lists and even in jail. She founded the Arab Women’s Solidarity Association (AWSA). Woman at Point Zero was rejected by Egyptian publishers and eventually published in Lebanon. The novel is criticized for its lack of literary merit and often accused of promoting Western bias against Arab society and Islam. In spite of many conflicting interpretations or perhaps due to them\, Woman at Point Zero remains an extraordinary\, foundational and influential text of women’s literature\, Arabic literature\, African literature and the canon of world literature. \nProfessor Samah Selim will convene this seminar. We expect attendees to have bought and read the book\, and be willing to engage in the online discussion. We will meet for 3 hours with breaks in between. \nAbout the instructor\nSamah Selim is an Egyptian scholar and translator of Arabic literature. She studied English literature at Barnard College\, and obtained her PhD from Columbia University in 1997. Her most recent book\, Popular Fiction\, Translation and the Nadha in Egypt (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2019) looks at the cultural and literary politics surrounding the translation of the novel into Arabic at the beginning of the twentieth century. She is currently working on a literary biography of the Lebanese novelist and journalist Niqula al-Haddad. She is the recipient of the Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation (2009)\, the University of Arkansas Translation of Arabic Literature Award (2012) and the National Endowment for the Arts Translation Grant (2018). She is currently working on an English translation of Jordanian author Ghalib Halasa’s 1987 novel Sultana. \nAbout Adabiyat\nAdabiyat is a virtual book club dedicated to exploring the Arab world’s history\, politics\, and culture through literature. Each month\, the group reads a translated fiction book from the region\, with an emphasis on diversifying countries and topics. Follow them on Twitter and Instagram
URL:https://arablit.org/event/radical-foundations-woman-at-point-zero-by-nawal-el-saadawi/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211122
DTSTAMP:20260406T220549
CREATED:20211102T185229Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211102T185229Z
UID:46286-1637452800-1637539199@arablit.org
SUMMARY:Symposium on Translation and the Making of Arab American Community
DESCRIPTION:On November 12\, 2021 a one-day symposium will be held on the University of Michigan central campus in Ann Arbor. This event is free and open to the public\, with live-streaming via zoom. \nIt is co-sponsored by the Arab and Muslim American Studies Program and the Departments of Comparative Literature and Middle East Studies\, as part of the 2021-22 Mellon Sawyer Seminar Series on Sites of Translation in the Multilingual Midwest. \nCo-organized by Graham Liddell and Khaled Mattawa\, the symposium will explore how different forms of translation contribute to the making of Arab American communities in the Midwest\, including a panel (Panel 3) featuring a conversation between three prominent Arab-American authors and translators about the aesthetics and politics of Arabic–English translation\, within and beyond the realm of literature. Moderated by Nancy R. Roberts (translator of Arabic fiction)\, the panel includes Khaled Mattawa (poet\, translator\, and professor at U Michigan)\, Fady Joudah (poet\, physician\, and translator)\, and Dunya Mikhail (poet and lecturer at Oakland University). \nThe symposium will culminate in a reading by Iraqi-American poet\, Dunya Mikhail.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/symposium-on-translation-and-the-making-of-arab-american-community/
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