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Adabiyat Book Club will meet on Sunday August 29 at 1 pm EST to discuss Isabella Hammad's The Parisian.
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A panel on sci fi featuring Palestine +100 editor Basma Ghalayini. |
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The aftermath of September 11th 2001, which brought about the “war on terror” and the invasion of Iraq, also led the destruction of the Iraqi state and its social structure. Authors, translators and scholars Sinan Antoon, Dunya Mikhail, Adnan Al-Sayegh, Jenny Lewis, and Haytham Bahoora meet to read from their work and discuss how Iraq in contemporary literature ‘writes back’ in the face of destruction and assaults on culture. |
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If Arabic is a poetic language, what poetry do Arabic-speaking diasporas need to know to understand their identities? |
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Kitab Talk: “The Arabic Collections Online Project” with Guy Burak and David Millman (NYU Libraries)
Kitab Talk: “The Arabic Collections Online Project” with Guy Burak and David Millman (NYU Libraries)
Arabic Collections Online (ACO) is a partnership of several major research libraries in the United States and the Middle East to digitize the Arabic monographs in their collections and make them freely accessible to the world. ACO consists of more than 17,000 volumes from most Arabic-speaking countries, Turkey and Iran. Our presentation will offer an overview of the project and the collection. We will also discuss some of the challenges we have faced over the years.
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What does it mean to exist as an image, as something seen but never comprehended? What happens when a language is visible yet continually misread, or made illegible? ‘Arabic Letter Seen Arabic Letter Wow’ is a performative essay that investigates the relationships between image, language, and power. Presenting a collection of found materials, Urok Shirhan […]
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Tuesday 14 September 18:30 UTC (19:30 BST) Free Zoom social event for translators into English from any language with an interest in writing for young people. Places will be limited. September is #WorldKidLitMonth, and we're celebrating with a meet-up for translators who share an interest in writing for young people. About this event Join us […] |
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Ever since the US-led invasion of Iraq, local and diaspora authors have been engaging with new aesthetics of corporeality. In this seminar, Hanan Jasim Khammas, CCL Visiting Doctoral Scholar, in discussion with Ikram Masmoudi (University of Delaware) and Hanna Simpson(University of Oxford), reviews aspects of corporeality in contemporary Iraqi fiction and shows how new representation of the body suggest a development in the perceptions of the body as a cultural sign. |
3 events,For the last film in the Mizna Film Series: Beirut, Mizna presents Birds of September by Sarah Francis.
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In this hybrid talk/reading, Kareem James Abu-Zeid will take us on a whirlwind journey through Arab poetry, using his own recent translations as stopping points.
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Book talk about Kareem Rabie’s new book "Palestine is Throwing a Party and the Whole World is Invited" (Duke University Press 2021). |
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Egyptian writer Ahmed Naji will be in conversation with Rasha Hilwi about his new book حرز مكمكم, just out from Dar Khan Aljanub. |
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Humor is one of the most difficult concepts for any writer or translator to engage with, and yet undoubtedly the most rewarding when it’s done right. This course encourages you to translate humor from a range of genres in contemporary Arabic literature: memoir, graphic novel, short stories, and young adult literature from across the Arabic speaking world such as Libya, Lebanon, Mauritania and Palestine. |
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2 events,The fifteenth edition of Mizna’s Twin Cities Arab Film Fest returns in a hybrid format from September 29–October 3, 2021.
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Join this event for International Translation Day, hosted by Goethe-Institut London featuring Charlotte Ryland, Anna von Rath, Canan Marasligil, and Yousif M Qasmiyeh. |
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International Translation Day is back with a day-long, online programme of events.
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Join moderator Nariman Youssef and panellists Marilyn Booth, M Lynx Qualey, and Bishan Samaddar for a discussion on the contemporary translation scene and where we are heading next. |
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This panel with Sawad Husain and Nana Awere Damoah, moderated by S. Su’eddie Vershima Agema is part of the Abuja Literary and Arts Festival 2021. It seeks to explore the complexities that exist in the African Novel publishing industry. |