This panel with Sawad Husain and Nana Awere Damoah, moderated by S. Su’eddie Vershima Agema is part of the Abuja Literary and Arts Festival 2021. It seeks to explore the complexities that exist in the African Novel publishing industry.
This annual exploratory and informal workshop offers the opportunity to reflect on history writing in Arabic. This year, three days of the workshop will be held online and only Day 2 will be in person at the Aga Khan Centre, London. We hope to welcome newcomers to the workshop and to encourage a lively discussion. The programme is exciting as ever, with 25 papers treating history writing from the eighth century up to the present.
Join this SOAS event for a conversation between the Artist Fathi Hassan and curator Najlaa El-Ageli.
Join this event organized by the Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies for a rich and engaging conversation with Arab American playwrights, theater actors, and producers.
Leaving Childhood Behind: A Conversation with Mosab Abu Toha, Poet and Founder of the Edward Said Public Library in Gaza, moderated by Refqa Abu-Remaileh and Alison Rice.
"Paper, perhaps the most common manufactured item in everyday use, was invented in China over 2,000 years ago. One thousand years later, Muslims learned of it after they conquered Central Asia in the early eighth century. They quickly carried it and the techniques of manufacturing it across Eurasia and Northern Africa to the shores of the Atlantic."
Bilal Orfali interviews the Lebanese novelist Rachid El Daif about current challenges and the future of Arabic novels for the AGYA alumni lecture series.
Join this session with writers Najwa Barakat and Lefteris Giannakoudakis at the Institut du Monde Arabe where the two authors will be talking about their latest books.
