When you live in a conservative society, you run the risk of censure. How far should a philosophy professor stick her neck out to make a point? Would you put it all on the line in the pursuit of truth or justice, or whatever informs your intent? An Unlasting Home, by award-winning short story writer Mai Al-Nakib, […]
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Ein Online-Gespräch mit Petra Dünges Am 30. September wird weltweit der Internationale Übersetzertag begangen. Zum diesjährigen Tag des Übersetzens haben wir beschlossen: Es wird Zeit, dass wir mehr über Petra Dünges und ihre wunderschöne Arbeit erfahren! Die gelernte Physikerin erzählt, wie sie zur arabischen Kinderliteratur kam und was sie dabei erfahren hat. Der Vortrag bietet […] |
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Adabiyat Book Club will meet on Sunday, October 2 at 12 pm EST via Zoom to discuss Elias Khoury's novel Gate of the Sun. |
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AANM presents a live bilingual poetry reading featuring an incredible lineup of poets: Maya Abu Al-Hayyat and Zeina Hashem Beck. Join us as the poets read excerpts from their new works, exploring themes of language and notions of home. Maya’s translated poems will be orated by Writing Fellows graduate Samer Budair. The talkback will be […] |
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Join an evening with Nadia Wassef to discuss brilliant new memoir CHRONICLES OF A CAIRO BOOKSELLER. Nadia will be in conversation with Will Smith, a bookseller at Sam Read’s, on Bookshop Day! - - - - The streets of Cairo make strange music. The echoing calls to prayer; the raging insults hurled between drivers; the […] |
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Join us as we interview author, Sahar Mustafah, who authored many books including The Beauty of Your Face, which will be the focus for this Book Club episode. The daughter of immigrants, Sahar Mustafah explores her Palestinian heritage in her writing. She earned her MFA in Fiction from Columbia College where she was a Follett […] |
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The new event series ‘AGYA Literary Salon’ hosts both established and emerging Arab and German authors to discuss their literary careers, visions, and latest works. The Salon especially aims to introduce new literary talents and unknown texts to the public, presenting new thoughts, expressing human values, and providing a source for inspiration. The second Salon […]
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Wednesday OCT 12 6:00–7:30 PM PST at The Poetry Center Humanities 512, San Francisco State University co-presented by The Poetry Center and Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies, SF State free and open to the public mask requested to attend in person; or watch via live-stream Zeina Hashem Beck is a Lebanese poet. Her third full-length poetry collection, O, was […] |
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Over the last two decades, the term less translated languages has emerged to describe languages that are less often the source of translation in the international exchange of linguistic goods, regardless of the number of people using these languages. These languages have been translated to a much lesser extent, particularly into English. The AALITRA Review […] |
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Saïd Khatibi is a novelist, travel writer, translator, and cultural journalist, born in 1984 in Bou Saâda, Algeria. He writes in Arabic and French and translates between both. He has a BA in French Literature from the University of Algiers and an MA in Cultural Studies from the Sorbonne. Sarajevo Firewood is his third novel […]
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Professor Hammad discusses the life and legacy of Layla Murad, one of the most beloved and remembered Arab singing stars in the twentieth century, to analyze politics of sexuality, ethnicity, socio-cultural interaction between Muslims and Jews, and the crucial role popular culture played in constructing an exclusive Arab-Islamic Egyptian identity. Born into a Jewish family […] |
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This panel will discuss contemporary Arabic literature and literary translation published in the last dozen years, particularly following the onset of the ‘Arab Spring’. Distinguished international writers, translators and researchers within the Arabic literary (translation) field will discuss and reflect on recent developments as well as publishing trends and practices. The panel will situate these […] |
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Lancaster Uni's MENAWA Book Club will have their first meeting of the fall season on October 20, 5 pm UK time, to discuss Noor Naga's If An Egyptian Cannot Speak […] |
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Writers, translators and editors celebrate new writing from Palestine. Featuring Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, Marcia Lynx Qualey, Alice Youssef, Sonia Nimr, Sawad Hussain, Jehan Bseiso, Louis Allday, Suchitra Vijayan, Meg Arenberg and Bhakti Shringarpure. Books in focus include You Can Be The Last Leaf by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat translated by Fady Joudah, Thunderbird II by Sonia Nimr translated by Marcia Lynx […] |
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2 events,Georgetown's Center for Contemporary Arab Studies is hosting a book talk with Yasmin El-Rifae to mark the launch of Radius, which tells the story of those Egyptians who organised to intervene in cases of sexual violence against protesters.
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Online readings from Najwan Darwish and Salim Barakat, shortlisted for the Sarah Maguire Prize 2022. |
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Maya Abu Al-Hayyat directs the Palestine Writing Workshop on the West Bank. She'll read poems & be in conversation with poet Deema Shehabi.
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