Join Yasmine Seale, Robin Moger, and Marina Warner for a reading and conversation of “Agitated Air – Poems After Ibn Arabi.”
Read moreTranslation’s Agitated Mirror
“Perhaps each iteration of the poem is a supplicant, yearning for a connection with Ibn Arabi’s original. Or perhaps each one is a lover, longing to see itself in another. Perhaps they are both.”
Read moreReading the Arabian Nights
Elias Muhanna speaks with editor Paulo Lemos Horta, translator Yasmine Seale, and speculative fiction writer S. A. Chakraborty about the new translation of the 1001 Nights. Plus, a special reading by actor Marjan Neshat.
Read moreTranslating the Nights with Yasmine Seale
Join “Evenings with an Author” (in person and online) to discuss a new translation of the “Arabian Nights” by award-winning poet and translator Yasmine Seale.
Read moreThe Arabian Nights and its Afterlives: Yasmine Seale in Conversation
Join the Brooklyn Institute on Tuesday, November 23rd, as they welcome poet and translator Yasmine Seale for a wide-ranging discussion of the aesthetics, poetics, and politics of the “Arabian Nights”.
Read moreThe Pillow Talk and its Outcome: Approaching the Nights with Yasmine Seale
The Comparative Literature Luncheon Lecture Series presents: “The Pillow Talk and its Outcome: Approaching the Nlghts” by Yasmine Seale (British-Syrian Writer) Yasmine Seale is a British-Syrian writer. She lives in […]
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Yasmine Seale Wins 2022 PEN Grant to Translate al-Nabulsi
Translator and author Yasmine Seale has won a 2022 PEN America Literary Grant to support her translation of If You See Them Fall to Earth by Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi (1641-1731).
Read more“Music to Stir the Soul” with Yasmine Seale
A virtual evening of music and conversation inspired by the British Museum exhibition Reflections: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa.
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Yasmine Seale to Translate Al-Khansa for LAL Series
The poetry of Al-Khansa (~575-646) has been little-translated, although notably it appeared in the slender and beautiful chapbook of reflections Loss Sings, by author and translator James Montgomery, one of the executive editors of the Library of Arabic Literature project.
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