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SUMMARY:The Gifts of Movement | Transformative Migrations in the Digital Age: Saïd Khatibi and Amara Lakhous in conversation with Alexander Elinson
DESCRIPTION: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 in Arabic (and first in English translation)\, and was shortlisted for the 2020 International Prize for Arabic Fiction. His other novels are Kitab al-Khataya (Book of Errors)\, Editions ANEP\, 2013\, and Forty Years Waiting for Isabelle\, 2016\, about the real-life Swiss traveler Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904)\, for which he won the 2017 Katara Award for the Novel. He has a travel book about the Balkans\, The Inflamed Gardens of the East\, 2015\, and has written extensively on raï music\, including a book (Wedding Fire\, 2010) that tells its story. He lives in Slovenia. \nAmara Lakhous was born in Algeria in 1970. He moved to Italy in 1995. He has a degree in philosophy from the University of Algiers and another in Humanities from the University of Rome\, La Sapienza where he completed a Ph.D. dissertation entitled “Living Islam as a Minority.” He is the author of five novels\, three of which were written in both Arabic and Italian. His best known works are the much acclaimed Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio (2008)\, Divorce Islamic Style (2012)\, A Dispute Over a Very Italian Piglet (2014)\, and The Prank of the Good Little Virgin in Via Ormea (2016). His latest novel in Arabic\, Tir al-lil (The Night Bird)\, was longlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction\, 2021. His novels have been translated from Italian into many languages: English\, German\, French\, Spanish\, Dutch\, Japanese\, Danish and Persian. Lakhous has been awarded\, among others\, the Flaiano Prize in Italy in 2006 and the Algerians Booksellers Prize in 2008. Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio has been adapted into a movie by the Italian director Isotta Toso in 2010 and many theater productions. It was chosen for the 2014 New Student Reading Project at Cornell University. Lakhous moved to New York City in August of 2014 and is joining the Department of Italian Studies at Yale. \n  \nAlexander Elinson is Associate Professor of Arabic and Head of the Arabic Program Hunter College of the City University of New York. In addition to his book Looking back at al-Andalus: the poetics of loss and nostalgia in medieval Arabic and Hebrew Literature\, he has written extensively on classical Arabic and Hebrew poetry and prose\, as well as on contemporary language politics and ideology\, prison narratives\, and oral and written culture in Morocco. He has translated two novels by Youssef Fadel: A Beautiful White Cat Walks with Me and A Shimmering Red Fish Swims with Me\, the latter of which was shortlisted for the 2020 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation. He has also translated Hot Maroc by Yassin Adnan which was shortlisted for the 2022 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize. His translation of Khadija Marouazi`s prison novel History of Ash will be published this summer. He is currently translating Amara Lakhous`s latest novel\, The Night Bird\, and Saïd Khatibi’s The End of the Sahara. \n  \nLiteratures of Annihilation\, Exile\, and Resistance\, launched by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi\, is a research collective and lecture series co-sponsored by the College of Arts and Letters and the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame\, and housed at the newly launched Initiative on Race and Resilience\, directed by Mark Sanders\, Professor of English and Africana Studies. The series focuses on contemporary literature\, film\, and visual art that has been shaped by revolutionary and resistance movements\, decolonization\, migration\, class and economic warfare\, communal and state-sanctioned violence\, and human rights violations. We aim to theorize new modes of contemporary literary and artistic resistance across national borders and to amplify the voices of scholars\, artists\, and writers of color whose lived experience is instrumental in forging new alliances across formal\, linguistic and national boundaries.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/the-gifts-of-movement-transformative-migrations-in-the-digital-age-said-khatibi-and-amara-lakhous-in-conversation-with-alexander-elinson-2/
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SUMMARY:WORK—a TMR Roundtable Conversation With 5 Writers
DESCRIPTION:Join The Markaz Review for a spirited roundtable with Iason Athanasiadis • Ahmed Awadalla • Nashwa Nasreldin • Meera Santhanam • Anis Shivani & moderator Jordan Elgrably\, in a conversation about work in journalism (Iason Athanasiadis on Al Jazeera)\, working in Cairo and Berlin (Ahmed Awadalla)\, working as an Arab Muslim woman in the UK (Nashwa Nasreldin)\, covering a woman filmmaker struggling to make her film in Lebanon (Meera Santhanam)\, and immigrant workers in fiction (Anis Shivani). \nRead writers’ WORK stories here. \nThis online roundtable is open to all\, free to the public; donations are welcome.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/work-a-tmr-roundtable-conversation-with-5-writers/
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SUMMARY:An Unlasting Home  Author Mai Al-Nakib in Conversation with Katie Dancey-Downs
DESCRIPTION:In 2013\, Kuwait’s parliament authorised a law that made blasphemy a capital crime. Although this decision was successfully vetoed by the Emir of Kuwait\, it highlighted the precarious sanctity of freedom of speech in a religiously conservative country. In An Unlasting Home\, Mai Al-Nakib imagines an alternative reality where this law comes to pass. \n  \nJoin Mai Al-Nakib in conversation with Index on Censorship’s Katie Dancey-Downs as she discusses her debut novel’s approach to censorship and blasphemy in the Middle East. Described by Ira Mathur as ‘an exquisite discourse on the nature of freedom’\, An Unlasting Home is out now in paperback and published by Saqi Books. \n  \nMEET THE SPEAKERS \nMai Al-Nakib was born in Kuwait and spent the first six years of her life in London\, Edinburgh and St. Louis\, Missouri. She holds a Ph.D. in English from Brown University and is an associate professor of English and comparative literature at Kuwait University. Her academic research focuses on cultural politics in the Middle East\, with a special emphasis on gender\, cosmopolitanism and postcolonial issues. Her short-story collection\, The Hidden Light of Objects\, won the Edinburgh International Book Festival’s First Book Award in 2014\, the first collection of short stories to do so. Her fiction has appeared in Ninth Letter\, The First Line\, After the Pause and The Markaz Review\, and her occasional essays in World Literature Today\, BLARB: Blog of The LA Review of Books\, and on the BBC World Service\, among others. She lives in Kuwait. \nKatie Dancey-Downs is Assistant Editor at Index on Censorship. She has travelled the world to tell stories about people and the planet. She’s passionate about human rights\, the environment\, and culture\, and has a particular interest in refugee rights. Katie has written for a range of publications\, including HuffPost\, i News\, New Internationalist\, Resurgence Magazine\, Reader’s Digest\, and Big Issue\, and is the former co-editor of the Lush Times magazine. She has a degree in Drama and Theatre Arts from the University of Birmingham and an MA in Journalism from Bournemouth University\, where she focused her research on the ethical storytelling of refugee issues.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/an-unlasting-home-author-mai-al-nakib-in-conversation-with-katie-dancey-downs/
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