Two Lebanese Writers Were on the Nominations List for 1970 Nobel
“The Nobel committee releases their archives 50 years after the prize deliberations in question.”
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Lebanese Publisher, Filmmaker Lokman Slim Found Murdered
Prominent Lebanese publisher, filmmaker, researcher, organizer, and commentator Lokman Slim was found dead Thursday morning. He was 59.
Charif Majdalani Wins Prix Femina for ‘Beirut 2020: Chronicle of a Collapse’
Lebanese author Charif Majdalani has won a 2020 Prix Femina “special jury prize” for his “Beyrouth 2020: Journal d’un effondrement.”
Sunday Submissions: EBRD Literature Prize 2019
The first prize, worth €20,000, will be equally divided between the winning author and translator. Two runners-up and their translators will receive a prize of €1,000 each.
Teaching with Arabic Literature in Translation: ‘Narrating Conflict’ and ‘Literary Legacies of War in Lebanon’
“In the ‘Narrating Conflicts’ course, we think a lot about calls to empathy and how different experiments with form are trying to engage their readers / viewers / players.”
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