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"The Joy of Arabic" in collaboration with the Library of Arabic Literature at the New York University - Abu Dhabi

Date: May 24, 2023, 17:00 - 18:00
Location: ADIBF - Aya Sofya Stage - Hall 10

Presenting the literary and cultural heritage of Arabic in other languages can be challenging for scholars and translators. But in spite of high barriers of language and culture, working on Arabic through the medium of other languages can be a rewarding endeavor. Among other things, it allows scholars to introduce new readers to the texts and traditions they love. 
In collaboration with the Library of Arabic Literature at the New York University Abu Dhabi, a group of award-winning scholars and translators discussed why they find writing about and translating from this vast literary heritage so vital and rewarding, and how it has helped to broaden their own understanding of Arabic culture.. 

 

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Michael Cooperson

Michael Cooperson

An American author and translator, Cooperson studied at Harvard University and the American University of Cairo, and is currently a professor of Arabic language and literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has published two monographs on early Abbasid cultural history: ‘Classical Arabic Biography’ and ‘Al-Ma'mun’. In addition to Impostures, he has translated Abdelfattah Kilito's ‘L'Auteur et ses doubles (The Author and his Doubles)’ and Ibn al-Jawzi's ‘Manaqib al-Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal (Virtues of the Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal)’. His other interests include Maltese language and culture.
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Chip Rossetti

Chip Rossetti

Translator and the managing editor of the Library of Arabic Literature translation series at NYU Press. He has a Ph.D. in Arabic literature (specializing in modern Iraqi fiction) at the University of Pennsylvania, and did his undergraduate degree in Greek and Latin at Harvard. Before his second career in academia, he worked for a number of years as an acquiring editor at US publishers such as Basic Books, Wiley and Little, Brown. From 2005 to 2007, he was the senior editor at the American University in Cairo Press. His translations include Sonallah Ibrahim’s Beirut; Magdy El Shafee’s graphic novel Metro; Ahmed Khaled Towfik’s scifi novel Utopia; and Three Poems by Syrian poet Liwaa Yazji (with Samantha Kostmayer Sulaiman.) In 2010, he won a PEN America Translation Fund grant for his translation of Muhammad Makhzangi’s short story collection Animals in our Days
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Dr. Mathieu Tillier

Dr. Mathieu Tillier

He is Professor of Medieval Islamic History at Sorbonne Université (Paris) and a member of the CNRS team “Orient & Méditerranée” (UMR 8167). His main research focuses on Islamic law and institutions. He is also the author of Les cadis d’Iraq et l’État abbasside (132/750-334/945) (Damascus: Presses de l’Ifpo, 2009), and of L’invention du cadi. La justice des musulmans, des juifs et des chrétiens aux premiers siècles de l’Islam (Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2017).
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Bilal Orfali

Bilal Orfali

Sheikh Zayed Chair for Arabic and Islamic Studies at AUB
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Eenas Khansa

Eenas Khansa

Professor & chair of the department of Arabic and Near Eastern Language at AUB

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