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  • TPF School of Traditional Arts Lecture: A Conversation Between Calligraphers

    Avielah Barclay and Joumana Medlej are both deeply engaged in the Art of the Book.n. They will discuss what each tradition learned from its neighbours – how different materials and techniques were incorporated or dismissed as different scribal traditions and religious identities engaged with them. They will also discuss what we can discern about the calligraphers' and scribes' state of mind by what is visible on the page.

    £7

  • Literary translation: reading between the lines

    In this 2½ hour workshop, critically-acclaimed literary translator Rosalind Harvey will teach you the nuts and bolts of the industry and give you the opportunity to take part in a creative translation exercise.

    £80

  • afikra Conversations: Writer & Literary Translator Yasmine Seale

    Join afikra as they interview British-Syrian Writer and Literary Translator Yasmine Seale on their Conversations series. Seale's reviews and essays on literature, art, myth, archaeology and film have appeared widely, including […]

  • Adab Colloquium: Who Was a Good Poet in Sixteenth Century Damascus?

    With ALQ contributor Haci Osman Gündüz (Ozzy)! Biographical dictionaries often also served as anthologies with—at times—detailed analyses of poetry and literary aesthetics. One such work is Ibn Ayyūb al-Anṣārī’s (d. 1003/1595) Kitāb al-rawḍ al- ʿāṭir which is an indispensable resource on major Damascene figures of the sixteenth century. This talk provides a preliminary study of […]

  • TMR Conversations: Raja Shehadeh & Amal Ghandour

    Amal Ghandour, author of This Arab Life, interviews Palestinian attorney and author Raja Shehadeh about his latest book, a memoir. Palestinian attorney Raja Shehadeh, author most recently of We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir, will discuss his latest work, along with such previous books as Palestinian Walks and Strangers […]

  • Feminist Revolutions with Yasmin El-Rifae at Lighthouse Bookshop Edinburgh (online)

    Please note that this is an online-only event. We're over the moon to be welcoming journalist Yasmin El-Rifae with her book Radius: A Story of Feminist Revolution, a haunting and intimate account of the women and men who formed Opantish—Operation Anti-Sexual Harassment - in the middle of the Arab Spring. In 2012, the joyful hopes […]