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Litprom - Crossing Borders: Arabic Literature in the World Today

Date: May 25, 2022, 14:00 - 15:00
Location: Abu Dhabi International Book Fair - Youth Stage

Crossing Borders: Arabic Literature in the World Today in collaboration with the cultural association Litprom. The panelists are Iman Mersal, SZBA 2021 Literature winner, Leila Chammaa, German Lebanese translator, and Laurenz Bolliger, German senior editor at Hoffmann and Campe. The discussion has been moderated by Stefan Weidner, German literary critic and translator.
This panel discussed the ranking of Arabic literature in the international book market today and what difficulties it faces, and how to overcome them.

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Iman Mersal

Iman Mersal

Egyptian poet, writer, academic and translator. She works as an Associate professor of Arabic literature and Middle Eastern studies at the University of Alberta, Canada and currently resides in Marseille, France, where she holds the Albert Camus chair at IMéRA, the Institute for Advanced Study of Aix-Marseille University until July 2021, while working on a book entitled Al Laknah: Al Sawt fee Ghair Makaneh (Accent: the Displaced Voice). An anthology of her works was translated into more than twenty languages and she has five poetry collections published. Her most recent published works include Hatta Atakhlla Aan Fekrat Al Boyot (Until I Abandon the Idea of Homes) in 2013, Kayfa Taltaem: Aan Al Omoma wa Askhbahuha (How to Amend: On Motherhood and its Ghosts) in 2017, and Fee Athar Enayat Al Zayyat (In the Footsteps of Enayat Al-Zayyat) in 2019. Her book, Mamar Moetem Yasloh fee Talom Al Raks (A Dark Path Suitable for Learning to Dance), is one of the most important poetry books issued by the generation of the nineties in Arabic poetry.
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Leila Chammaa

Leila Chammaa

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Stefan Weidner

Stefan Weidner

Stefan Weidner is a renowned German writer, translator, and literary critic, with a specialization in Arabic literature. In September 2019 his collection of critical essays, 1,001 Books, will be published by Edition Converso, Germany. Weidner will speak about this project, which situates Arabic literature in the context of world literature today, shedding new light onto it from the perspective of postcolonial theory on one hand and the interested Western readership on the other.
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Laurenz Bolliger

Laurenz Bolliger

Senior Editor at Hoffmann & Campe

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