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SUMMARY:TMR Bookgroup: Hisham Bustani's “The Monotonous Chaos of Existence”
DESCRIPTION:The Markaz Review invites you to participate in their monthly bookgroup conversation\, in which authors and/or translators join during the second half of the hour. On Sunday\, April 24th\, writer Hisham Bustani and translator Maia Tabet will join at 1:30 pm Eastern. \nTo receive the Zoom link for this free online event\, simply email books@themarkaz.org.\n\nFree Event / 1 pm Eastern/18:00 UK/19:00 CET
URL:https://arablit.org/event/tmr-bookgroup-hisham-bustanis-the-monotonous-chaos-of-existence/
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SUMMARY:Roundtable on Literary Translation
DESCRIPTION:Please register your interest to attend the forthcoming Roundtable on Literary Translation organised by the School of Modern Languages and Cultures (University of Warwick) using this link. They have a very exciting panel with practising literary translators as well as representatives of the publishing and literary world:\n \n\nAlexandra Büchler (Director of Literature Across Frontiers\, LAF)\nWill Forrester (Translation and International Manager at English Pen)\nRuth Ahmedzai Kemp (practising literary translator working from German\, Arabic and Russian into English)\nAyça Türkoglu (practising literary translator working from German and Turkish into English\nSawad Hussain (practising literary translator working with the Arabic language)\n\n\nThe event will take place in a hybrid format on Tuesday 26 April 2-4pm UK time in OC1.06 and on MS Teams. \nPlease note that you will need to register your interest through this form by Monday 25 April (midnight UK time). You will receive further details about accessing the seminar via Teams on the day of the talk.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/roundtable-on-literary-translation-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220427T180000
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SUMMARY:Agitated Air – Poems After Ibn Arabi
DESCRIPTION:Reading & Conversation with Yasmine Seale\, Robin Moger\, and Marina Warner. Organised by Beatrice Bottomley (Warburg Institute PhD). \nBorn in Murcia in 1165\, Ibn Arabi was a prolific philosopher and poet. He travelled extensively before settling in Damascus\, where he died in 1240. Tarjuman Al-ashwaq\, or ‘The Interpreter of Desires’\, is a cycle of sixty-one Arabic poems. They speak of loss and bewilderment\, a spiritual and sensual yearning for the divine\, and a hunger for communion in which near and far collapse. \nAgitated Air (forthcoming in February 2022 from Tenement Press) is a correspondence in poems between Istanbul and Cape Town\, following the wake of The Interpreter of Desires. Collaborating at a distance\, Yasmine Seale and Robin Moger work in close counterpoint\, making separate translations of each poem\, exchanging them\, then writing new poems in response to what they receive. The process continues until they are exhausted\, and then a new chain begins. \nMarina Warner writes of the collection ‘Antiphonal\, intimate and virtuoso\, these variations respond to the sense that the interpretation of desires can be endless. […] This is translation as intrepid and inspired re-visioning\, a form of poetry of its own\, as forged by Edward FitzGerald\, Ezra Pound and Anne Carson.’ \nIn this online reading\, Yasmine Seale and Robin Moger will give voice to these poems\, bringing to life the imagery and sounds that punctuated their exchange. The reading will be followed by a discussion between the poet-translators and Marina Warner.\n\nYasmine Seale is a writer and translator. Her essays\, poetry\, and translations from Arabic and French have appeared widely—in Harper’s\, Poetry Review\, Wasafiri\, Apollo and elsewhere. Current projects include a new translation of The Thousand and One Nights (W. W. Norton) and a translation of the poems of Al-Khansa (NYU Press). After five years in Istanbul\, she lives in Paris. \nRobin Moger is a translator of Arabic to English recently moved from Cape Town to Barcelona. His translations of prose and poetry have appeared in Blackbox Manifold\, The White Review\, Asymptote\, and others. He has translated several novels and prose works\, most recently Haytham El Wardany’s The Book Of Sleep (Seagull) and Slipping by Mohamed Kheir (Two Lines Press). \nProfessor Marina Warner is a writer of fiction\, criticism and history; her works include novels and short stories\, as well as studies of art\, myths\, symbols\, and fairy tales.  She is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Birkbeck College\, University of London\, and a Distinguished Fellow at All Souls College\, University of Oxford. \nFREE VIA ZOOM. PLEASE BOOK IN ADVANCE.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/agitated-air-poems-after-ibn-arabi/
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Beirut:20220427T190000
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SUMMARY:afikra Conversations: Publisher Michel Moushabeck
DESCRIPTION:Join afikra as they interview founder of Interlink Publishing Michel Moushabeck on the afikra Conversations series. \nMichel S. Moushabeck is a writer\, editor\, translator\, publisher\, and musician of Palestinian descent. He is the founder of Interlink Publishing\, a 35-year-old\, Massachusetts-based independent publishing house specializing in fiction-in-translation\, history and current affairs\, illustrated children’s books\, and award-winning international cookbooks. He is the author of several books including\, Kilimanjaro: A Photographic Journey to the Roof of Africa. Most recently\, he co-edited the winter issue of the Massachusetts Review focusing on Mediterranean literature and contributed a piece to Being Palestinian: Personal Reflections on Palestinian Identity in the Diaspora (Edinburgh University Press). He is the recipient of NYU’s Founder’s Day Award for outstanding scholarship\, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee’s Alex Odeh Award and The Palestinian Heritage Foundation Achievement Award. He serves on the board of directors of Media Education Foundation and on the board of trustees of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF). He is also a founding member and director of the Boston-based Layaali Arabic Music Ensemble. He has performed at concert halls worldwide and plays percussion on the music soundtrack of an award-winning BBC documentary on Islam\, which aired as part of the series The People’s Century. His recording credits include two albums: Lost Songs of Palestine and Folk Songs and Dance Music from Turkey and the Arab World. He lectures frequently on Arabic music and literature-in-translation. He plays music almost daily; is a keen mountain climber; and is a rather obsessive collector of jazz and world music\, world percussion instruments\, books\, old maps\, and contemporary art. He has three daughters—all book editors—and lives in Leverett\, Massachusetts with his longtime German partner who works at the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst and is a leading expert on East German film.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/afikra-conversations-publisher-michel-moushabeck/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220428T120000
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SUMMARY:Translating Picture Books
DESCRIPTION:Join Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp\, Daniel Hahn\, Lawrence Schimel\, and Helen Wang as they answer questions about being a translator and the translation of picture books. Their translations are highlighted in the Reading Library exhibition\, Read the World: Picture Books and Translation.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/translating-picture-books/
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SUMMARY:Translation and Cultural Exchange - Sheikh Zayed Book Award
DESCRIPTION:In its ambition to connect with wider academic audiences\, the Sheikh Zayed Book Award is organising a series of four events between April and June in collaboration with SOAS\, University of London\, famous for its commitment to and its reach in the global south. Professor Wen-chin Ouyang\, with her connections in North America\, Europe and East Asia\, will host and moderate the events\, bringing to this series an additional multilingual and cross-regional flare. The interlocutors and guests include shortlisted and invited authors\, translators\, cultural thought leaders and scholars from around the world. All events will be bilingual (Arabic/English) and online. \nThis first event will feature: \n\nProf. Wen-chin Ouyang (moderator)\nNawal Nasrallah – scholar\, award-winning researcher and food writer\, 2022 SZBA shortlistee for the category Translation\nKatharine Halls – literary translator\, 2021 recipient of a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant for the translation of Haytham El-Wardany’s Things That Can’t Be Fixed\nProfessor Wang Youyong – Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at Shanghai International Studies University
URL:https://arablit.org/event/translation-and-cultural-exchange-sheikh-zayed-book-award/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220502T123000
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SUMMARY:Oil and Arabic Literature in the Cold War — A Talk by Elizabeth Holt
DESCRIPTION:When British Petroleum was looking to have their film The Third River translated into Arabic\, they turned to Palestinian writer and painter Jabra Ibrahim Jabra\, who worked as an editor for the Iraq Petroleum Company’s influential in-house industry and culture publications. Better known for translating T.S. Eilot’s The Wasteland and William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury into Arabic\, Jabra’s correspondence also frequently appears in the archives of United States Cold War projects\, such as Franklin Books and the CIA’s Congress for Cultural Freedom. This talk will explore the intersection of oil\, modernism\, and empire\, to consider how pipelines and energy infrastructure curate Arabic literature. \n  \nElizabeth M. Holt is a literary historian and serves as associate professor of Arabic at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson\, New York\, where she co-directs the Middle Eastern Studies and Arabic programs. She is finishing a new book entitled “Imperious Plots: Cultural Infiltration and Arabic Literature in the Cold War\,” and has recently published articles on resistance literature and the Cold War in Beirut in the Journal of Palestine Studies\, and on Sudanese novelist Tayeb Salih’s CCF-published novel Season of Migration to the North in Research in African Literatures. Drawing upon extensive archival research\, the book-length study shows that Arabic literature was a pivotal terrain of the cultural Cold War\, through which the CIA infiltrated the increasingly Soviet-sponsored (if often Mao-inspired) cultural production of the Third World. The project has received generous support from the Forum Transregionale Studien in Berlin’s Europe in the Middle East/the Middle East in Europe (EUME) program\, and Bard College. \nHolt is a founding member of Bard’s Translation and Translatability Initiative\, and is the author of Fictitious Capital: Silk\, Cotton\, and the Rise of the Arabic Novel (2017). The book reads early Arabic novels of late nineteenth- and twentieth-century Beirut and Cairo as fictions of global finance in the Eastern Mediterranean. Research was generously supported through a Fulbright IIE Grant to Cairo\, a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship at the American Research Center in Cairo\, numerous smaller grants from Columbia University and Bard College\, and a sabbatical from Bard spent as a research associate at the American University of Beirut. This funding allowed for extensive research in libraries and archives in Cairo\, Beirut\, Nantes\, Aix-en-Provence\, and in the New York area. She is at work on two new projects: a materialist study of ‘petroculture’ and the Arabic novel; and Arabic at Sea\, on maritime mercantilism and Arabic storytelling from the fourteenth century. \nThis event is organized by the MENA Interdisciplinary Working Group on Institutional Histories of Aesthetic Forms. \nThis is a hybrid event\, register here to participate via Zoom.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/oil-and-arabic-literature-in-the-cold-war-a-talk-by-elizabeth-holt/
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: You Have Not Yet Been Defeated
DESCRIPTION:Join Seven Stories Press and Haymarket Books for a launch of Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s important new book\, You Have Not Yet Been Defeated.\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\n“The text you are holding is living history.” — Naomi Klein\, from the foreword to You Have Not Yet Been Defeated \nAlaa Abd el-Fattah is arguably the most high-profile political prisoner in Egypt\, if not the Arab world\, rising to international prominence during the revolution of 2011. A fiercely independent thinker who fuses politics and technology in powerful prose\, an activist whose ideas represent a global generation which has only known struggle against a failing system\, a public intellectual with the rare courage to offer personal\, painful honesty\, Alaa’s written voice came to symbolize much of what was fresh\, inspiring and revolutionary about the uprisings that have defined the last decade. \nTo celebrate the launch of the first English language collection of his essays\, social media posts\, and interviews\, Alaa’s sister Sanaa Seif—herself an activist\, filmmaker\, and former political prisoner of the Sisi regime in Egypt—will be joined by Naomi Klein\, Ruth Wilson Gilmore\, and Sharif Abdel Kouddous for a conversation on the wide range of subjects covered in this important new book. \nTo order a copy of You Have Not Yet Been Defeated visit: https://bookshop.org/a/1039/9781644212455 \n***Register through Eventbrite to receive a link to the video conference on the day of the event. This event will also be recorded and live captioning will be provided.***
URL:https://arablit.org/event/book-launch-you-have-not-yet-been-defeated/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220504T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220504T180000
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SUMMARY:The Common: Issue 23 Virtual Launch Party
DESCRIPTION:On May 4th at 5pm EDT\, join The Common for the virtual celebration of Issue 23! We welcome fiction writer Fernando Flores\, poet Tina Cane\, Palestinian writer Eyad Barghuthy\, and Arabic translator Nashwa Gowanlock for brief readings and conversation about place\, culture\, and translation. The event will be hosted by the magazine’s editor in chief Jennifer Acker\, in partnership with the Amherst College Creative Writing Center and Arts at Amherst Initiative. \nPlease Register in Advance for the Virtual Event. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the event.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/the-common-issue-23-virtual-launch-party/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220506T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220506T150000
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SUMMARY:The Markaz Review: Novelist Rabih Alameddine in conversation with Dima Alzayat
DESCRIPTION:Rabih Alameddine\, winner of the 2022 PEN/Faulkner Award for his latest novel\, The Wrong End of the Telescope\, will be in conversation with short story author Dima Alzayat (Alligator & Other Stories) for The Markaz Review\, on Friday\, May 6\, 2 pm ET (19:00 UK). Zoom participants will be able to jot down their questions in the chat for Alameddine and Alzayat.\nIn her TMR review of The Wrong End of the Telescope\, Dima Alzayat points out that\, “Alameddine plunges headfirst into important questions about empathy and fiction\, armed with his signature sharp sarcasm and acerbic humor. ‘Every idiot thinks they’re a writer\, they’re not;’ he proclaims in the book’s opening pages. ‘Every dullard thinks they have a tale to tell; they don’t.’ Alameddine is not taking aim at literature he simply dislikes or disagrees with — his is a much more interesting pursuit: What is the point of fiction? What does it do? What can it yield? These queries lie at the heart of his novel\, one that takes as its subject the plight of refugees crossing the Mediterranean and those who wait to receive them on the other side.” \nBorn in Amman\, Jordan\, Lebanese American writer and painter Rabih Alameddine is the author of the novels An Unnecessary Woman; I\, the Divine; Koolaids; The Hakawati; and the story collection\, The Perv. In 2019\, he won the Dos Passos Prize. \n  \nDima Alzayat was born in Damascus\, grew up in San Jose\, California and lives in Manchester\, in the UK. She studied fiction writing and has won numerous awards. In her TMR review of Alzayat’s Alligator & Other Stories\, Malu Halasa suggested that her story collection “starts a different conversation about Arab belonging and assimilation in America\, through the prism of Syrian experience. An astute observer of worlds both old and new\, Alzayat listened hard to her elders\, recognized inconsistencies and digs deep into uncomfortable no-go areas. She is a formidable new voice in understanding the complexities of race and identity.” \nThis online event is free to the public. RSVPs are required. REGISTER HERE.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/the-markaz-review-novelist-rabih-alameddine-in-conversation-with-dima-alzayat/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220507T140000
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SUMMARY:You Haven't Been Defeated: Book Talk with Sanaa Seif
DESCRIPTION:A book talk with Egyptian revolutionary Sanaa Seif\, former political prisoner and sister of Alaa Abd El-Fattah with renowned independent Egyptian journalist\, Sharif Abdel Kouddous.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/you-havent-been-defeated-book-talk-with-sanaa-seif/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220507T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220507T213000
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SUMMARY:Gaza Poet Mosab Abu Toha\, in conversation with Mary Karr
DESCRIPTION:The Markaz Review and City Lights in conjunction with the Middle Eastern Children’s Alliance celebrate the publication of Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza\, by Mosab Abu Toha\, published by City Lights Books. \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a device that is capable of accessing the Internet. \nTakes place at 12 noon Pacific/3 pm Eastern/20:00 UK/21:00 CET
URL:https://arablit.org/event/gaza-poet-mosab-abu-toha-in-conversation-with-mary-karr/
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Beirut:20220510T190000
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SUMMARY:afikra Book Club: Author Naomi Shihab Nye
DESCRIPTION: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. \nPraised by the Horn Book as “both quiet and exhilarating\,” “The Turtle of Oman” by the acclaimed poet and National Book Award Finalist Naomi Shihab Nye follows Aref Al-Amri as he says goodbye to everything and everyone he loves in his hometown of Muscat\, Oman\, as his family prepares to move to Ann Arbor\, Michigan. This book was awarded a 2015 Middle East Book Award\, was named a Notable Book by the American Library Association\, and includes extra material by the author. \nThe Turtle of Michigan is a deft and accessible novel that follows a young boy named Aref as he travels from Muscat\, Oman\, to Ann Arbor\, Michigan\, and adjusts to a new life and a new school in the United States. A wonderful pick for young middle grade readers and fans of Other Words for Home and Billy Miller Makes a Wish.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/afikra-book-club-author-naomi-shihab-nye/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220511T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220511T183000
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SUMMARY:BCLT Research Seminar with Michael Cooperson - French Word Games\, “Untranslatable” Arabic\, and Global English
DESCRIPTION: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 work of the OuLiPo\, the French literary collective\, to attempt the same in English.\nMichael Cooperson is Professor of Arabic at University of California\, Los Angeles. He studied at Harvard and the American University in Cairo\, and taught at Harvard\, the Middlebury School of Arabic and Dartmouth College before joining UCLA in 1995. He has published the monographs Classical Arabic Biography: The Heirs of the Prophet in the Age of al-Ma’mūn (Cambridge University Press\, 2000) and Al Ma’mun (OneWorld Books\, 2005). He has also translated a number of works from Arabic and French\, including Abdelfattah Kilito’s The Author and His Doubles: Essays on Classical Arabic Culture (Syracuse University Press\, 2001)\, Khairy Shalaby’s The Time-Travels of the Man Who Sold Pickles and Sweets (American University in Cairo Press\, 2010) and Jurji Zaydan’s Brothers at War (Zaidan Foundation\, 2012). In 2009-10 he was Visiting Professor at Stanford University\, and 2015-2017 he was Senior Research Fellow for the Library of Arabic Literature\, New York University Abu Dhabi. In 2021\, he won the Sheikh Zayed Book Award for translation from Arabic to English.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/bclt-research-seminar-with-michael-cooperson-french-word-games-untranslatable-arabic-and-global-english/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220512T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220512T150000
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SUMMARY:Getting our Hands Dirty: What's so special about feminist translation (and translating feminists)?
DESCRIPTION:The late great maverick Moroccan feminist writer Malika Moustadraf died at just 37 years old in 2006. Persecuted throughout her short life for writing about sexual violence and the patriarchy in her fiction\, the key details of her life story remain contested. So what are the challenges of translating a dead writer of such freighted work? And what issues must we take into account when attempting to represent someone like her in English in 2022? \nWith Alice Guthrie\, Helen Vassallo and Majida Ibrahim. \nZoom link: \nhttps://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/j/97259978936?pwd=RlJGVW5wQVc3MjU4c0VNeU85VzcxUT09 \nMeeting ID: 972 5997 8936 \nPassword: 745315
URL:https://arablit.org/event/getting-our-hands-dirty-whats-so-special-about-feminist-translation-and-translating-feminists/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220512T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220512T151500
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SUMMARY:Arab Literature and Culture in the West and Beyond - Sheikh Zayed Book Award
DESCRIPTION:In its ambition to connect with wider academic audiences\, the Sheikh Zayed Book Award is organising a series of four events between April and June in collaboration with SOAS\, University of London\, famous for its commitment to and its reach in the global south. Professor Wen-chin Ouyang\, with her connections in North America\, Europe and East Asia\, will host and moderate the events\, bringing to this series an additional multilingual and cross-regional flare. The interlocutors and guests include shortlisted and invited authors\, translators\, cultural thought leaders and scholars from around the world. All events will be bilingual (Arabic/English) and online. \nThis panel discussion will feature: \n\nProf. Wen-chin Ouyang (moderator)\nMichael Cooperson – author and translator\, professor of Arabic language and literature at the University of California\, 2021 SZBA winner for the category Translation\nRobert Irwin\, Middle East editor of TLS\nHuda Fakhreddine – Associate Professor of Arabic Literature at the University of\nPennsylvania and literary translator
URL:https://arablit.org/event/arab-literature-and-culture-in-the-west-and-beyond-sheikh-zayed-book-award/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20220513T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20220513T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T100314
CREATED:20220401T092215Z
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SUMMARY:Radical Books Collective - Beware My Smile: On Radical Desire
DESCRIPTION:Inspired by Audre Lorde’s provocation\, “I have been woman / for a long time / beware my smile” we’re bringing you conversations with writers\, editors and translators about their new books on sex\, sexuality\, lust\, love\, gender and desire. \nFeaturing \n\nThe Sex Lives of African Women by Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah\nWe Wrote in Symbols: Love and Lust by Arab Women Writers\, edited by Selma Dabbagh\nThe Butterfly Jungle by Diriye Osman\nGlory Hole by Kim Hyun\, translated by Suhyun J. Ahn and Archana Madhavan\n\nHosted by Bhakti Shringarpure\, Meg Arenberg and Rudo Madiwa
URL:https://arablit.org/event/radical-books-collective-beware-my-smile-on-radical-desire/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220515T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220515T130000
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SUMMARY:Adabiyat Book Club: Maha Gargash's 'That Other Me'
DESCRIPTION: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. \nDM them on Twitter or Instagram to join.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/adabiyat-book-club-maha-gargashs-that-other-me/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220517
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SUMMARY:The DC Arab Literature Festival: Narrating the Middle East
DESCRIPTION:Narrating the Middle East is an exciting virtual Arab literary festival taking place on Tuesday\, May 17 and Wednesday May 18\, 2022. Organized by the Middle East Institute’s Arts and Culture Center (MEI) and the Abu Dhabi Music and Arts Foundation (ADMAF) in partnership with the The Cheuse Center for International Writers at George Mason University\, the two-day virtual literary festival featuring writers and poets from the Middle East and its Diaspora is the first of its kind in the Washington\, DC area. \nThe festival explores the work of leading and emerging Arab authors and poets and presents a wide range of Arab literary talent to American and global audiences. Some of the topics that the festival will touch upon include the realities of writing in and about the region\, the challenges of publishing and translating works from the Middle East\, and how to grow readership and nurture new writers. \nCheck out the agenda at the MEI website and register to watch the sessions online.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/the-dc-arab-literature-festival-narrating-the-middle-east/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220517T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220517T200000
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SUMMARY:The Englishing of Hisham Bustani's 'Monotonous Chaos'
DESCRIPTION:Author Hisham Bustani\, translator maia tabet\, publisher Michael B. Tager\, and scholar Pete Moore talk translation\, its politics\, and more.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEmploying a variety of different genres\, the stories in Hisham Bustani’s The Monotonous Chaos of Existence — translated by maia tabet — explore the transformations in contemporary Jordan\, the Levant\, and the wider world. \nAt this launch event\, we’ll talk about Hisham Bustani’s second short-story collection in English translation\, “The Monotonous Chaos of Existence\,” the different ways his work is received in English and Arabic\, the challenges of translation & of editing translations\, the nitty-gritty of publishing multi-genre work\, and the intersection of Jordanian literature\, politics\, and society. \nHisham Bustani is an award-winning Jordanian author of five collections of short fiction and poetry. His most recent book\, the Monotonous Chaos of Existence\, was published by Mason Press in January. \nPete Moore is currently the Visit Kuwait Chair at the Paris School of International Studies\, Sciences Po\, Paris. He currently serves on the Editorial Committee of the Middle East Report and is a member of the Northeast Ohio Consortium for Middle East Studies. \nMarcia Lynx Qualey is the founding editor of ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly\, and co-host of the BULAQ podcast. \nmaia tabet is an Arabic-English literary translator based in Washington DC\, where she is the associate editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies. She is the translator of Hisham Bustani’s the Monotonous Chaos of Existence. \nMichael B. Tager is the Managing Editor of Mason Jar Press. A writer and editor\, his work has appeared places and can be found through his website.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/the-englishing-of-hisham-bustanis-monotonous-chaos/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220518T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220518T173000
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SUMMARY:BCLT Research Seminar – Round Table: Arabic Discourse on Translation
DESCRIPTION: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).
URL:https://arablit.org/event/bclt-research-seminar-round-table-arabic-discourse-on-translation/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20220519T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20220519T170000
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SUMMARY:Charis Olszok (Cambridge)\, "Ecocritical Readings of the Arabic Novel"
DESCRIPTION:UCD Environmental Humanities presents Charis Olszok (Cambridge)\, with a talk titled “Strange Energies: Ecocritical Readings of the Arabic Novel”. \nThursday 19 May\, 4pm. \nChair: Dr. Hannah Boast. \nBio: Charis Olszok studied French and Arabic at the University of Oxford\, before going on to complete her MA in Arabic Literature and her PhD at SOAS\, with a scholarship from the Wolfson Foundation. She finished her PhD in 2016\, looking at the depiction of animals in modern Libyan fiction from 1965-2011. In the course of her work\, she examined how animals were used to formulate protest against Gaddafi’s dictatorial regime\, and comment upon the country’s sudden oil wealth and rapidly changing social realities. She also focused on how portrayals of animals were constituted through the Islamic\, Sufi and folkloric influences on Libyan fiction\, relating them to other intriguing examples of animal depiction within the broader Arabic literary tradition. Following her PhD\, she joined the University of Cambridge as Lecturer in Modern Arabic Literature and Culture\, and as a Bye-Fellow of King’s College. In addition to her research\, she has translated numerous short works of modern Arabic fiction into English\, as well as two novels. \nRegistration \nThis talk will take place at 4pm Irish Standard Time\, which translates to 11am Eastern Standard (US Time). Registration will close at 2pm Dublin time on the 19th and links will be sent out twice\, on the 17th and on the 19th\, two hours before the event.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/charis-olszok-cambridge-ecocritical-readings-of-the-arabic-novel/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220519T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220519T180000
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SUMMARY:MENAWA Reading Group: 'Passage to the Plaza' by Sahar Khalifeh
DESCRIPTION:Join MENAWAPoco’s May 2022 virtual book discussion\, of Sahar Khalifeh’s Passage to the Plaza (tr. Sawad Hussain) at 5pm UK time. To participate\, email them at menawapocoreads@gmail.com and follow them on Twitter to see all updates.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/menawa-reading-group-passage-to-the-plaza-by-sahar-khalifeh/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220522T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220522T180000
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SUMMARY:International Prize for Arabic Fiction: Live Stream of Winner Announcement and Press Conference
DESCRIPTION:The winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2022 will be announced in a hybrid event on Sunday 22 May 2022. \nTime (BST): Ceremony 16.00; Press conference 17.00 \nJoining link: Details to follow\nRSVP: Olivia.Riggon@fourcommunications.com
URL:https://arablit.org/event/international-prize-for-arabic-fiction-live-stream-of-winner-announcement-and-press-conference/
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Beirut:20220524T190000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Beirut:20220524T200000
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SUMMARY:afikra Conversations: Author Laila Lalami
DESCRIPTION:Join afikra as they interview author Laila Lalami on the afikra Conversations series. \nLaila Lalami was born in Rabat and educated in Morocco\, Great Britain\, and the United States. She is the author of five books\, including The Moor’s Account\, which won the American Book Award\, the Arab-American Book Award\, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. It was on the longlist for the Booker Prize and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. Her most recent novel\, The Other Americans\, was a national bestseller and a finalist for the Kirkus Prize and the National Book Award in Fiction. Her essays and criticism have appeared in the Los Angeles Times\, the Washington Post\, The Nation\, Harper’s\, the Guardian\, and the New York Times. She has been awarded fellowships from the British Council\, the Fulbright Program\, and the Guggenheim Foundation and is currently a professor of creative writing at the University of California at Riverside
URL:https://arablit.org/event/afikra-conversations-author-laila-lalami/
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Beirut:20220525T170000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Beirut:20220525T180000
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SUMMARY:afikra Outline: Memory in Ruins
DESCRIPTION:Join afikra as they interview assistant professor of Arabic language and literature and author of “Memory in Ruins: The Poetics of Atlal in Lebanese Wartime and Postwar Production” Yasmine Khayyat on the afikra Outline series. \nThis dissertation examines the convergence of ruins and memory. It is an inquiry into the role ruins play in indexing\, impeding and enabling memories of war through literary and non-literary media. At the heart of this study is an attempt to explore the multivalent nature of war memories in Lebanon–their inscription\, mediation\, and transformation–through the framework of ruins. Drawing on the classical Arabic literary tradition of contemplating ruins allows me to analyze the way ruins are interpreted and represented in contemporary Lebanese vernacular\, literary\, museological and poetic matrixes of memory. Through their evocation of the past via its ruin-traces\, the modern works under examination effectively transform the poetics of nostalgia to new affective and alternative imaginary spaces. It is precisely in the creative tension between the traditional and the modern\, the real and the imagined ruins\, where a contemporary poetics of memory lies.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/afikra-outline-memory-in-ruins/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220525T183000
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SUMMARY:Banipal Book Club: 'Things I Left Behind\,' by Shada Mustafa\, tr. Nancy Roberts
DESCRIPTION:This is young Palestinian author Shada Mustafa’s debut novel – a free-flowing narrative that interrogates\, in short\, direct sentences\, the memories of growing up\, falling in love\, that keep forcing themselves out to be reckoned with. Through ceaseless questioning\, and the seemingly random revisiting of each of the four “things” she has left behind\, the narrator redeems her life from the inexplicable pain and tragic anguish that was her childhood in an occupied and divided land and family. \nIn so doing\, Mustafa creates a unique writing style while at the same time allowing the narrative its original\, cathartic function\, liberating herself from her past\, and finding her true self. \nWhy was she always having to cross the Qalandia checkpoint to see her dad or her mom? Why did they divorce? Why was her mom angry? How could she make her happy? Why was her dad a different man when he came out of the occupier’s prison? What was more important\, the cause or the people? The questions become more urgent when she becomes a student and falls in love. \nThis short novel\, original in its subject as much as its narrative technique\, has been singled out from the start by being shortlisted for the 2021 Sheikh Zayed Book Award for Young Authors.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/banipal-book-club-things-i-left-behind-by-shada-mustafa-tr-nancy-roberts/
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Beirut:20220526T190000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Beirut:20220526T200000
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SUMMARY:afikra Book Club: Author Sabrina Mahfouz
DESCRIPTION:Join afikra as they interview author Sabrina Mahfouz on the afikra Book Club series. \nSabrina Mahfouz once sat in a Whitehall interview room and was interrogated about everything from her political leanings to her private life. It was ostensibly a job interview\, but implicit in their demands was the unspoken question: as a woman of Middle Eastern heritage\, could she really be trusted? Years later\, Sabrina found herself confronting the meaning behind this interrogation\, and how it was specifically informed by the British Empire’s historical dominance in the Middle East. “These Bodies of Water” investigates this history through the Middle Eastern coastlines and waterways that were so vital to the Empire’s hold. Interwoven with her own personal experiences\, Sabrina combines history\, politics\, myth and poetry in a devastating examination of this unacknowledged part of Britain’s colonial past. Part history\, part polemic and part intimate memoir\, “These Bodies of Water” is a tapestry of writing that tells the story of Britain’s relationship with the Middle East in the most revealing terms.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/afikra-book-club-author-sabrina-mahfouz/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220530T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220530T193000
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SUMMARY:An Evening With Shahd Alshammari
DESCRIPTION:ALQ contributor Shahd Alshammari will be in conversation with Archna Sharma (Neem Tree Press) about her new memoir ‘Head Above Water’. \nShahd Alshammari is an Assistant Professor of English Literature in Kuwait. She is also the author of Notes on the Flesh (2017\, Faraxa Press). The book was featured in many academic journals and was reviewed by disability studies scholars as well as gender studies scholars. Her essays have appeared in The Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies\, Life Writing\, Al-Raida\, Wordgathering\, and others. \nAlshammari’s struggle with Multiple Sclerosis has propelled her to write about illness in the MENA region both academically and creatively. Her PhD thesis centered on madwomen protagonists in Western and Arab literature and later her interest shifted to women’s disabilities and illness and the lack of representation in literature and media. She was also an invited speaker at The Malta Book Festival as well as The Emirates Literature Festival. \nMany students in the region follow Alshammari’s work and are able to relate to her struggles. Most of the lectures she has given involve university students and graduate students attending in order to search for their voices and experiences being represented. \nHead Above Water takes us into a space of intimate conversations on illness and society’s stigmatization of disabled bodies. We are invited in to ask the big questions about life\, loss\, and the place of the other. The narrative builds a bridge that reminds us of our common humanity and weaves the threads that tie us all together. Through conversations about women’s identities\, bodies\, and our journeys through life\, we arrive at a politics of love\, survival\, and hope.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/an-evening-with-shahd-alshammari/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220531T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220531T151500
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SUMMARY:Children’s Literature as World Literature - Sheikh Zayed Book Award
DESCRIPTION:In its ambition to connect with wider academic audiences\, the Sheikh Zayed Book Award is organising a series of four events between April and June in collaboration with SOAS\, University of London\, famous for its commitment to and its reach in the global south. Professor Wen-chin Ouyang\, with her connections in North America\, Europe and East Asia\, will host and moderate the events\, bringing to this series an additional multilingual and cross-regional flare. The interlocutors and guests include shortlisted and invited authors\, translators\, cultural thought leaders and scholars from around the world. All events will be bilingual (Arabic/English) and online. \nThis panel discussion will feature: \n\nProf. Wen-chin Ouyang (moderator)\nRaja Malah – 2022 SZBA shortlistee for the category Children’s Literature\nCharlotte Eyre – freelance journalist\, previously Children’s Editor at The Bookseller\nPam Dix – Chair of the International Board on Books for Young People UK (IBBY UK)
URL:https://arablit.org/event/childrens-literature-as-world-literature-sheikh-zayed-book-award/
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