As part of their series on classical Arabic poetry, the Abbasid History Podcast will host a YouTube livestream with Dr. Kevin Blankinship on December 27th.
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Join BAHR for this first ever online reading to celebrate the fresh start of a new year with a festive evening full of poems and performances led by their very own past contributors. |
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Join this interview with poet Safia Elhillo for the afikra Book Club series. |
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Join us for a discussion of "I Do Not Sleep", by the late Egyptian master writer Ihsan Abdel Kouddous (Hoopoe, January 2022), with the translator Jonathan Smolin, Marcia Lynx Qualey, and Sharif Abdel Kouddous. |
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Join this interview with translator and scholar of Arabic literature Roger Allen as part of the afikra Conversations series. |
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Join Adabiyat's January 2022 virtual book club! They will be discussing Saudi-American author Eman Quotah's novel Bride of the Sea on January 16 at 1 pm EST. |
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CGC Amman is hosting an online discussion of "We Wrote in Symbols: Love and Lust by Arab Women Writers" with Selma Dabbagh, Lynn Gaspard, and M Lynx Qualey. |
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Join this interview with food historian Charles Perry on the afikra Matbakh series. |
3 events,The Syrian Arts and Culture Festival will take place in London and partly online from January 20 to February 4, 2022.
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Join this interview with poet Naomi Shihab Nye for the afikra Conversations series.
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Elias Muhanna speaks with editor Paulo Lemos Horta, translator Yasmine Seale, and speculative fiction writer S. A. Chakraborty about the new translation of the 1001 Nights. Plus, a special reading by actor Marjan Neshat. |
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Guest editor Ali Al-Jamri will host “Refuse to be erased: Readings and conversation from ALQ FOLK issue." |
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The book under discussion is Rasha Adly's "The Girl With Braided Hair," tr. Sarah Enany, published by Hoopoe Fiction, and the winner of the 2021 Saif Gobash Banipal Prize. |
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The Department of Languages and Intercultural Studies at Heriot-Watt University invites you to celebrate International Arabic Day by joining our roundtable focusing on the role of translation from and into Arabic in the dissemination of knowledge in the sciences
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The Griffin Poetry Prize is excited to launch their new series Translation Talks, with the first session taking place on Thursday, January 27th at 7pm ET on Zoom, featuring Khaled Mattawa in conversation with Sarah Riggs.
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Jonathan Smolin and Alaa Al Aswany discuss (the late) Ihsan Abdel Kouddous' novel, "I Do Not Sleep". |
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Adab Colloquium with Presenter Ziad Dallal, Bard College, and Discussant Matthew Keegan, Barnard College on "Desire and the Diseases of Translation: The Metaphorology of Civilization in 'Alas, I am Not a European'."
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Join this conversation featuring author Hassan Blasim and translator Jonathan Wright, wich is part of NDU's Literatures of Annihilation series.
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‘Abdulwāḥid Lu’lu’a is discussing Nāzik Al-Malā’ika's poems on 1/28, 6:00pm–7:00pm GMT, from Cambridge. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83547890773?pwd=aVcxTTU5Nk02dGQxeXZrTi8zM3Zndz09&fbclid=IwAR0HCOMqcquriLLG5VeXmuQvbuSBlM3mDZzJUsA9P9IIkvN7ORqJyzn8Sk4#success |
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Join Mizna in launching The Experimental Issue, guest-edited by Tarik Dobbs, with TWENTY ONE AUTHORS. |
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Webinar (in French) with eminent scholar of Arabic literature & Arabic-French translator Richard Jacquemond in conversation with Giedre Sabaseviciute. |
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Alaa Al Aswany is holding a virtual creative writing workshop, organized by Princeton's NES program. |
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