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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. |
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Join the Adabiyat Book Club for a discussion of Omar El Akkad's novel 'What Strange Paradise'.
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Join us in launching the print edition of I Want Sky, a collection of writing honoring Sarah Hegazy’s one irreplaceable life, and the lives of all LGBTQ+ Arabs and people of the SWANA region and its diaspora. |
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Romancing the Gothic's open book group is reading 'Silence is a Sense' this week and will be joined by author Layla AlAmmar.
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Join the 2021 National Book Award Finalists Reading with Samar Yazbek and Leri Price ("Planet of Clay"). |
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Jonathan Wright will draw on his experience as a translator of contemporary Arabic fiction to examine and critique the assumptions that underpin a corpus of literature written in Modern Standard Arabic. |
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In this talk in the "The Middle East in Cambridge Series", Michael Cooperson will discuss his translation of al-Hariri's "Impostures".
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Join this public talk with Khaled Alesmael in conversation with Lydia Wright and Suzan Meryem Rosita which is part of the Syria Writes Mini Literary Festival. |
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In this talk, Roxanne Douglas will sketch how contemporary Arab feminist writers draw on literary histories such as the 1001 Nights and local folklore to write in a localised version of feminist Gothic tropes.
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Join the 2021 Arab American Book Award winners and honorable mentions for a celebratory live reading.
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Join live or via Facebook for this book launch of Palestinian writer and ALQ contributor Ameer Hamad's first short story collection "Gigi and Ali's Rabit." |
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Dr. Christopher Silver will speak about "Phonograph Records as Historical Sources in the Digital Age", providing a case study of gharamophone.com.
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Join this class with Lena Khalaf Tuffaha to explore a selection of translated poetry by Palestinian women.
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Learn all about a children's book journey from writing to publishing from a seasoned children's books translator and editor. The event will be on Wednesday November 17, 2021 from 11:30 […]
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Emma Ramadan will discuss her relationship to translation and how translating texts that exist outside the domain of classical French—particularly experimental literature and works from North Africa and the Arab World—has opened up space for new language and new meanings, and in turn allowed for the discovery of a personal haven in the in-between. |
3 events,The 2021 edition of San Francisco's Arab Film Festival will run from November 18 to 24.
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Join MENAWAPoco's book club discussion on Mohamed Kheir's 'Slipping'.
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Join Access Now and The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy in a virtual reading event and a celebration of Alaa Abd El Fattah’s vision. |
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This masterclass on Egyptian writer and feminism Nawal el Saadawi's groundbreaking book Woman at Point Zero is organized in collaboration with the Adabiyat Book Club. |
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3 events,This Symposium on Translation and the Making of Arab American Community will include a panel featuring Khaled Mattawa, Fady Joudah, and Dunya Mikhail as well as a reading by Dunya Mikhail.
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The National Book Critics Circle will hold a panel with literary translators and critics, discussing strategies for book critics reviewing a work in translation. |
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In this talk, Dr. Mona Kareem (Tufts Center for Humanities) will share with us her research project around modern literature in the Arab Gulf. Kareem's project applies a transnational framework around literature in the Gulf, assembling a multilingual body of writings that share a geography. She considers the potentials of translation in challenging the borders […] |
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Join the Brooklyn Institute on Tuesday, November 23rd, as they welcome poet and translator Yasmine Seale for a wide-ranging discussion of the aesthetics, poetics, and politics of the "Arabian Nights". |
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Join Tom Tivan, Pam Dix, Salwa Shakshir, and Tom Bonnick as they discuss the market for global children’s literature.
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Join the Banipal Book Club for a discussion of 'Sarajevo Firewood' by Algerian writer Saïd Khatibi, featuring its translator Paul Starkey. |
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To mark the publication of 'You Have Not Yet Been Defeated' by Alaa Abd El-Fattah, the event features recorded and live readings by writers Naomi Klein and Ahdaf Soueif, poet Seán Hewitt and sociologist-activist Ronit Lentin as well as a discussion between Annie Fletcher, director of IMMA and Hussein Omar, historian of political ideas. |
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Join "Evenings with an Author" (in person and online) to discuss a new translation of the "Arabian Nights" by award-winning poet and translator Yasmine Seale. |
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How do authors write in English about Palestine? How can they reach a global audience? Ahmed Masoud, Selma Dabbagh, Nayrouz Qarmout and Naema Aldaqsha discuss their work from London and Gaza. |
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A cookbook is not just a cookbook. Join us for a celebration of five exciting new books that use recipes to revolutionize our relationship to cooking and eating. |
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