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  • 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 in Harper’s, The Paris Review, The Nation, frieze, The TLS, Apollo, 4Columns, and the London Review of Books blog. Her poetry, visual art, and translations […]

  • 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 […]

  • Adab Colloquium: The Maqāmāt of Badīʿ al-Zamān al-Hamadhānī: Authorship, Texts, and Contexts

    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 […]