For the last film in the Mizna Film Series: Beirut, Mizna presents Birds of September by Sarah Francis.
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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. |
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3 events,This annual exploratory and informal workshop offers the opportunity to reflect on history writing in Arabic. This year, three days of the workshop will be held online and only Day 2 will be in person at the Aga Khan Centre, London. We hope to welcome newcomers to the workshop and to encourage a lively discussion. The programme is exciting as ever, with 25 papers treating history writing from the eighth century up to the present.
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Join this SOAS event for a conversation between the Artist Fathi Hassan and curator Najlaa El-Ageli.
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Join this event organized by the Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies for a rich and engaging conversation with Arab American playwrights, theater actors, and producers. |
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Leaving Childhood Behind: A Conversation with Mosab Abu Toha, Poet and Founder of the Edward Said Public Library in Gaza, moderated by Refqa Abu-Remaileh and Alison Rice. |
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"Paper, perhaps the most common manufactured item in everyday use, was invented in China over 2,000 years ago. One thousand years later, Muslims learned of it after they conquered Central Asia in the early eighth century. They quickly carried it and the techniques of manufacturing it across Eurasia and Northern Africa to the shores of the Atlantic." |
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Bilal Orfali interviews the Lebanese novelist Rachid El Daif about current challenges and the future of Arabic novels for the AGYA alumni lecture series. |
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Join this session with writers Najwa Barakat and Lefteris Giannakoudakis at the Institut du Monde Arabe where the two authors will be talking about their latest books. |
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Join Mizna in launching the summer 2021 issue of their magazine, featuring readings by Hassan Saby, Maya Salameh, Nardine Taleb and Rania Mamoun. |
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While more writing from across the Arab world is being translated into other languages, a vast number of classics and modern works of Arabic literature remain untranslated. Our panel of experts on Arabic literature explores the reasons why many great Arabic writers are not yet translated, what makes Arabic literature so rich and varied, and which writers they believe deserve more international attention. They also explore how publishers and readers can get to know the deep canon of great works from the diverse Arab world. Hosted by the Sheikh Zayed Book Award and Publishing Perspectives.
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Join MENAWAPoco's book club discussion on Saleem Haddad's 'Guapa'.
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Join this discussion hosted by MENA Prison Forum on "Swaying Bodies", a novella by Ahmed Abdul-Halim, with illustrations by Dima Daly. |
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This mini symposium proposes to investigate modern Arabic literature in translation. The translation of Arabic texts has a complicated history, incorporating publishers’ reticence to publish translations, politics, gender, as well as difficulties of situating Arabic literature within the all-encompassing world literature.
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Lena Bopp discusses the challenges of publishing Arabic literature and other issues with Rasha al Ameer, Piero Salabè and Yasmina Jraissati at Frankfurt Book Fair.
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A panel on the translation of The Lilac Girl by Ibtisam Barakat from Arabic into German, with Ibtisam Barakat, Suleman Taufiq, and Madjid Mohit. |
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Join Mizna in celebrating "Villainy" with a virtual event ft. Andrea Abi-Karam, Elmaz Abinaber, Romaissa Benzizoune, Tarik Dobbs + Nour Kamel. |
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This workshop with poet and writer Nathalie Handal brings together an interdisciplinary community to explore the intersection of two research agendas (1) thematically, the study of violence and insecurity, broadly-understood; and (2) methodologically, the theory and practice of varied forms of story-telling as a way of accessing and expressing lived experience and human understanding. |
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Join Mikey Muhanna as he interviews James Wright professor and professor of Middle Eastern studies Dr. Tarek El-Ariss for the afikra Conversations series.
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The American Way: Stories of Invasion re-examines US foreign policy with stories that explore the human cost of these interventions on foreign soil, by writers from that soil. For this special online event, Fariba Nawa and Bina Shah, two of the anthology’s contributors will be discussing their stories and the events depicted within.
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Join Words Without Borders' virtual gala which will feature bilingual readings with some of the world's most captivating literary voices, musical performances, and an opportunity to connect with a global literary community. |
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This lecture by Mohammed Rustom will introduce the life and thought of the famous Sufi figure ‘Ayn al-Qudat Hamadani.
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Join the James Murua Literary LiveStream with Xavier Lufin and Dr. Günther Orth on "Arabic writing in Africa, Europe and beyond". |
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AGYA alumnus Prof. Dr. Bilal Orfali interviews the Lebanese novelist Hoda Barakat. |
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Between Two Islands is an evening of poetry and conversation, exploring the relationship between Bahrain, Britain and the British Bahrainis caught with a foot on either island, co-produced by guest editor of ALQ WINTER 2021, Ali Al-Jamri. |
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The Comparative Literature Luncheon Lecture Series presents: "The Pillow Talk and its Outcome: Approaching the Nlghts" by Yasmine Seale (British-Syrian Writer) Yasmine Seale is a British-Syrian writer. She lives in Paris. Her essays, poetry, and visual art have appeared widely — in Poetry Review, Frieze, the Times Literary Supplement elsewhere. She has translated many texts, […] |
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On November 3rd at 4:30pm EDT, join The Common for the virtual launch of Issue 22!
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Join Mikey Muhanna as he interviews The Sultan’s Seal coeditor, poet, and author of “In the Time of the Apricots” Carol Sansour on the afikra Outline series. |
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This event is part of the 2021 Hong Kong International Literary Festival and brings together writers and translators of speculative fiction from Taiwan, South Korea, and Kuwait. |