afikra Book Club: Author Naomi Shihab Nye
Join afikra as they interview author of “The Turtle of Michigan” and “The Turtle of Oman” Naomi Shihab Nye on the afikra Book Club series.
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BCLT Research Seminar with Michael Cooperson – French Word Games, “Untranslatable” Arabic, and Global English
Al-Hariri’s Impostures is a twelfth-century collection of fifty tales written entirely in rhyme. Because of the rhyme, not to mention the riddles, puns, lipograms, and rare vocabulary, it has routinely been called untranslatable. Yet translators into Hebrew, German, and Russian have succeeded in re-creating it in their languages. A new English translation draws on the […]
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Getting our Hands Dirty: What’s so special about feminist translation (and translating feminists)?
Getting our Hands Dirty: What's so special about feminist translation (and translating feminists)? Round table discussion and Q&A.
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Arab Literature and Culture in the West and Beyond – Sheikh Zayed Book Award
The Sheikh Zayed Book Award and SOAS are organising an event on "Arab Literature and Culture in the West and Beyond" featuring Michael Cooperson, Robert Irwin, and Huda Fakhreddine, moderated by Prof. Wen-chin Ouyang.
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Radical Books Collective – Beware My Smile: On Radical Desire
Radical Books Collective is organizing an evening of conversations with writers, editors and translators about their new books on sex, sexuality, lust, love, gender and desire.
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Adabiyat Book Club: Maha Gargash’s ‘That Other Me’
Join Adabiyat's May 2022 virtual book club! They will be discussing Emirati author Maha Gargash's novel 'That Other Me' on May 15 at 12 pm EST.
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The DC Arab Literature Festival: Narrating the Middle East
"Narrating the Middle East" is an exciting virtual Arab literary festival taking place on Tuesday, May 17 and Wednesday May 18, 2022.
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The Englishing of Hisham Bustani’s ‘Monotonous Chaos’
Author Hisham Bustani, translator maia tabet, publisher Michael B. Tager, and scholar Pete Moore talk translation, its politics, and more.
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BCLT Research Seminar – Round Table: Arabic Discourse on Translation
BCLT Translator in Residence Sawad Hussain is joined by editors Tarek Shamma and Myriam Salama-Carr for a round-table discussion to celebrate the recent publication of their Anthology of Arabic Discourse on Translation (Routledge, 2022).