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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.

Asli Ü. Bâli is the Howard M. Holtzmann Professor of Law at Yale Law School. She is an expert in international human rights law and comparative constitutional law focused on the Middle East. Dr. Bâli received her doctorate in Politics from Princeton University in 2010 and her law degree from Yale. Before her academic career, she worked for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and as an associate at Cleary Gottlieb. Shen then went on to UCLA where she was a founding faculty director of the Promise Institute for Human Rights. Dr.

Peter Beinart is Professor of Journalism and Political Science at CUNY. He is also a Contributing Opinion Writer for The New York Times, a political commentator on MSNBC, and Editor-at-Large of Jewish Currents. Over the years he served as Editor of The New Republic and wrote for publications like The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Die Zeit, and the Financial Times. He is the author of four books including The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris (Harper, 2010) and The Crisis of Zionism (Times Books, 2012).

Amira Hass, Jerusalem born and daughter of two Jewish holocaust survivors,  joined Haaretz daily in 1989 and has been the paper’s correspondent in the Occupied Palestinian Territory since 1993.    She lived in Gaza between 1993-1997 and since then in El-Bireh, the West Bank.   Her book “Drinking the Sea at Gaza” was published by Henry Holt in 2000.  Two other books, in various languages, are compilations of her articles in Haaretz and the Italian weekly Internazionale.

The Promise and Peril of Big Dams in Africa and the Middle East, 1955-1970

Mahaney Arts Center, Dance Theatre

Title: Book talk: Our Palestine Question

Geoffrey Levin (Emory University) will discuss his new book, Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent, 1948-1978 (Yale 2023), a new history of the American Jewish relationship with Israel, which focuses on its most urgent and sensitive issue: the question of Palestinian rights.

In this lecture, Dr. Sa’ed Atshan will provide an overview of the hostilities between the Israeli military and Hamas, reflecting on the past, present, and future of this crisis. The talk will also address the impact on Palestinian and Israeli civilians, the provision of international humanitarian aid, the role of the United States, and prospects for reconciliation.

By placing ethnicity at the center, this talk focuses on the stereotyping of Arabs by the Ottoman intelligentsia, first and later by the populizers of the Turkish state discourse from the sixteenth to the mid-twentieth century.

Current academic work by four scholars in the field of social and environmental relations in the Middle East will be read, analyzed, and critiqued by each other and by student attendees in a forum meant to provide Middlebury undergraduate students with an opportunity to enter into this growing field within Middle East Studies and to participate in a core academic activity: editing scholarly work.