New in Translation: Four Poems by Mohammad Abdelbari
“To read Mohammad Albdelbari is to listen to the voice as well as the silence.’
Huda Fakhreddine
Two Titles from Arabic Make 2022 Shortlist of Sarah Maguire Prize for Poetry in Translation
“The translation of poetry is poetry stretched to its very limits.”
Arab Literature and Culture in the West and Beyond – Sheikh Zayed Book Award
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.
afikra Conversations: Professor Huda Fakhreddine
Join this interview with the professor of Arabic literature Huda Fakhreddine for the afikra Conversations series.
Lit & Found: Three YouTube Panels on Arabic Literature and Translation
“Three recent panels on Arabic literature and translation have appeared on YouTube.”
Huda Fakhreddine: A Translator Must Have Something To Say About the Text
“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.”
Knowing the Self: Diaspora and Identity through Arabic poetry
If Arabic is a poetic language, what poetry do Arabic-speaking diasporas need to know to understand their identities?
Golan Haji’s ‘The Same Silence’
A spider thread / fastens your heart / to the book of flesh.
Saturday Events: ‘A Poem in Arabic, Not an Arabic Poem’
Dartmouth College’s open Middle Eastern literature lecture series starts on Wednesday, January 27, with a talk by Princeton’s Lara Harb.
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