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This talk by literary historian Elizabeth Holt will explore the intersection of oil, modernism, and empire, to consider how pipelines and energy infrastructure curate Arabic literature.
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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'. |
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On May 4th at 5pm EDT, join The Common for the virtual celebration of Issue 23! |
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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 […] |
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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.
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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. |
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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. |
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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 […] |
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Getting our Hands Dirty: What's so special about feminist translation (and translating feminists)? Round table discussion and Q&A.
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The Sheikh Zayed Book Award and SOAS are organising an event on "Arab Literature and Culture in the West and Beyond" featuring Michael Cooperson, Robert Irwin, and Huda Fakhreddine, moderated by Prof. Wen-chin Ouyang. |
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Radical Books Collective is organizing an evening of conversations with writers, editors and translators about their new books on sex, sexuality, lust, love, gender and desire. |
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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. |
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2 events,"Narrating the Middle East" is an exciting virtual Arab literary festival taking place on Tuesday, May 17 and Wednesday May 18, 2022.
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Author Hisham Bustani, translator maia tabet, publisher Michael B. Tager, and scholar Pete Moore talk translation, its politics, and more. |
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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 […] |
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UCD Environmental Humanities presents Charis Olszok (Cambridge), with a talk titled "Strange Energies: Ecocritical Readings of the Arabic Novel".
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Join MENAWAPoco's May 2022 virtual book discussion, of Sahar Khalifeh's 'Passage to the Plaza' (tr. Sawad Hussain) at 5pm UK time. |
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The winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2022 will be announced in a hybrid event on Sunday 22 May 2022. Time (BST): Ceremony 16.00; Press conference 17.00 Joining link: Details to follow RSVP: Olivia.Riggon@fourcommunications.com |
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Join afikra as they interview author Laila Lalami on the afikra Conversations series. |
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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.
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Join Banipal's May book club to discuss Shada Mustafa's "Things I Left Behind," translated by Nancy Roberts. |
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Join afikra as they interview author Sabrina Mahfouz on the afikra Book Club series. |
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ALQ contributor Shahd Alshammari will be in conversation with Archna Sharma (Neem Tree Press) about her new memoir ‘Head Above Water’. |
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The Sheikh Zayed Book Award and SOAS are organising an event on "Children’s Literature as World Literature" featuring Raja Malah, Charlotte Eyre, and Pam Dix, moderated by Prof. Wen-chin Ouyang. |
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Join this online launch event of Sonia Nimr's "Thunderbird", a YA fantasy adventure featuring a young Palestinian girl who must save the world.
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Friendly discussion about the novel, 'The Books of Queens,' by Joumana Haddad, hosted by Bhakti Shringarpure. |