MENAWA will be back March 16th to chat about Haji Jabir's IPAF-nominated BLACK FOAM We'll be joined for a Q&A by the novel's co-translator, Marcia Lynx Qualey! Email menawapocoreads@gmail.com for […]
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 […]
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 […]
Adabiyat's virtual book club will be reading Ahmed Taibaoui's The Disappearance of Mr. Nobody, translated by Jonathan Wright in March 2023. Read an extract here: https://tinyurl.com/2pnp4vr5 It is a raw, […]
Join the Adab Colloquium for a book talk with Bilal Orfali and Maurice A. Pomerantz moderated by Sara bin Tyeer and Matthew Keegan. Book Description: Through investigations of the manuscripts, this book explores important aspects of the life of Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadhani's maqamat. Relying solely on the flawed nineteenth century editions not only compromises the […]
Organized by The Translation Exchange in partnership with ArabLit. This event is open to all, whether or not you have attended one of our book clubs before. No knowledge of the original language is required to take part! Our next meeting will be held on Wednesday 29th March at 7pm (GMT), in partnership with specialists […]
In this Crown Seminar, Hosam Aboul-Ela, in conversation with Mona Kareem, will discuss the "exportability" of Arabic literature by looking at the work of Egyptian novelist Sonallah Ibrahim in its Arabic, French, and English versions
Hosts: Pauline Homsi & Rania Said This virtual roundtable explores the relationship between translation studies and Arab American studies. Its purpose is to generate an open-ended dialogue that highlights central ideas related to how thinking about translation in relation to Arab American studies and vice versa opens possibilities for ways to think about and work […]
The Queen of Sorcerers and Thirteen Anonymous Tales on Love With Presenter Enass Khansa, Asst. Professor & Chair of Dept. of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages, American University of Beirut And Discussant Julia Bray, AS AlBabtain-Laudian Professor of Arabic Emerita St. John’s College, Oxford Abstract: The topic of this talk is an anonymous collection of […]
