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Genre, Anxiety, and the Plurivocality of the Arabic Tradition
The second session of the “A Corpus Not a Canon: A Workshop on the Library of Arabic Literature,” a panel series hosted by Dame Marina ……Read More
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The Book Of Khartoum Wins 2015 PEN Translates Award
PEN announced thirteen winners of its 2015 “PEN Translates” grants yesterday. Among them was The Book of Khartoum, edited by ArabLit contributors Raphael Cormack and Max Shmookler: ……Read More
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The Return of ‘The Arab of the Future’
The second comic in Riad Sattouf’s award-winning L’Arabe du Futur series, titled L’Arabe du Futur 2,”was released in France on June 11, and is already garnering wide ……Read More
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Battle over Free Speech for Artists and Writers in Israel
In mid-April, pots began banging over Parallel Time, a production for which the state froze Haifa-based al-Midan Theatre’s financing. The state also began an investigation into the theatre’s financing, and the Education ……Read More
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Re-membering: How to Assemble a Corpus of Classical Arabic Literature
What follows is an overview of the first session of the “A Corpus Not a Canon: A Workshop on the Library of Arabic Literature,” held ……Read More
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‘Protect and Serve’? Crime-fic Symposium to Include Look at Arabic Noir
On July 10, Edinburgh University will host “‘Protect and Serve': Crime Fiction and Community,” a one-day symposium exploring how ideas of community feature in crime fiction. It’s set ……Read More