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“Between Tongues: The Art of Arabic-English Translation”

Between Tongues: The Art of Arabic–English Translation – a conversation with acclaimed translator maia tabet, whose career has helped shape the reception of modern Arabic literature in English. She has translated celebrated authors such as Elias Khoury and Sinan Antoon and her work reflects a lifelong engagement with language, politics, and literary form. In this talk, she reflects on the art and labor of translation—its challenges, its pleasures, and its power to mediate between cultures while resisting simplification. The event offers a rare opportunity to hear from one of the foremost voices in contemporary Arabic–English translation.

Mexican women writers are driving an affective rearrangement of aesthetic practices, places of enunciation, and the “lettered city” — a shift that is shaking up ideas about the canon, the functioning of national literature, and the role of the intellectual in the 21st century. As Cristina Rivera Garza has pointed out, we are witnessing a transformation in literature where the book is no longer the endpoint, nor is there a singular figure of the author.

Commencement reception for seniors and their families for the departments of Arabic, Chinese, Comparative Literature, German, Japanese Studies, Luso-Hispanic Studies, and Russian.

Commencement reception for seniors and their families for the departments of Arabic, Chinese, Comparative Literature, Italian, Japanese Studies, Luso-Hispanic Studies, and Russian.

Paula Park, Associate Professor of Spanish at Wesleyan University

Dr. Miral Mahgoub, an Egyptian novelist and Associate Professor of Modern Arabic Literature and Middle East/Islamic Studies at the School of International Letters and Cultures at Arizona State University, will speak about her novel, The Tent (1996), a dream-like portrayal of rural Bedouin life in Egypt. Dr. Mahgoub was awarded the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature in 2010 for her novel Brooklyn Heights and was recently profiled by the New York Times: “Making the Life of a Modern Nomad into Literature” (1/4/2012).

Lecture “Displaying Sexual Violence: Activism in Israeli Women’s Filmmaking” by Rachel S. Harris, Associate Professor of Israeli Literature and Culture, The University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign

Sponsored by Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Hebrew Program, Jewish Studies Program, Comparative Literature Program

Commencement reception for seniors and their families for the departments of Arabic, Chinese, Comparative Literature, German, Italian, Japanese Studies, Luso-Hispanic Studies, and Russian.

Mahmoud Muna is a bookstore owner, comedian, and cultural icon of East Jerusalem. He is a regular contributor to the current affairs media and writes for several local publications. The Jerusalem-based Muna family owns and operates the Educational Bookstore on Salah Eddin Street. Several decades ago, it was noted critic Edward Said’s family who originally owned the bookstore.