Two Titles from Arabic Make 2022 Shortlist of Sarah Maguire Prize for Poetry in Translation
2022-09-22
“The translation of poetry is poetry stretched to its very limits.”Continue Reading
Arab Literature and Culture in the West and Beyond – Sheikh Zayed Book Award
2022-04-26
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.Continue Reading
afikra Conversations: Professor Huda Fakhreddine
2021-12-07
Join this interview with the professor of Arabic literature Huda Fakhreddine for the afikra Conversations series.Continue Reading
Lit & Found: Three YouTube Panels on Arabic Literature and Translation
2021-11-12
“Three recent panels on Arabic literature and translation have appeared on YouTube.”Continue Reading
Huda Fakhreddine: A Translator Must Have Something To Say About the Text
2021-10-25
“Translation is first and foremost a critical reading. It must be motivated by having something to say about the text—not just transfer it from one language to another, which is impossible anyway.”Continue Reading
Knowing the Self: Diaspora and Identity through Arabic poetry
2021-08-11
If Arabic is a poetic language, what poetry do Arabic-speaking diasporas need to know to understand their identities?Continue Reading
Golan Haji’s ‘The Same Silence’
2021-03-08
A spider thread / fastens your heart / to the book of flesh.Continue Reading
Saturday Events: ‘A Poem in Arabic, Not an Arabic Poem’
2021-01-23
Dartmouth College’s open Middle Eastern literature lecture series starts on Wednesday, January 27, with a talk by Princeton’s Lara Harb.Continue Reading
‘All Our Translations Are Prose Poems’: A Talk with Huda Fakhreddine
2021-01-12
“I think poetry transcends time. A genuinely poetic approach to the study of poetry is one that breaks itself from historicism.”Continue Reading
