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CSAMES Event: "On Translating Arabic Poetry," A Discussion with Huda Fakhreddine and Eric Calderwood

Mar 4, 2025 4:00 pm

Illini Union Bookstore 2nd floor Author's Corner 809 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820

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Sponsor: Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
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Originating Calendar: CSAMES Events; HUDA J. FAKHREDDINE is a writer, translator, and Associate Professor of Arabic Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Metapoesis in the Arabic Tradition (Brill, 2015) and The Arabic Prose Poem: Poetic Theory and Practice (Edinburgh University Press, 2021), and the co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Poetry (Routledge, 2023). Her book of creative non-fiction titled Zaman s̩aghīr taḥt shams thāniya (A Brief Time Under a Different Sun) was published by Dar al-Nahda, Beirut, in 2019. Her translations of Arabic poems have appeared in Banipal, World Literature Today, Nimrod, ArabLit Quarterly, Asymptote, and Middle Eastern Literatures, among many others. She is co-editor of Middle Eastern Literatures and an editor of the Library of Arabic Literature.

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