Maghrebi Literature Panel @ Brooklyn Book Fair

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2012
5 – 6 pm

“Translating the Maghreb after the Arab Spring”

Brooklyn Borough Hall Community Room (209 Joralemon Street)

5:00 P.M. The PEN Translation Committee Presents North African Writing in the Wake of the Arab Spring. Noted translators, editors and poets Pierre Joris (Exile Is My Trade: a Habib Tengour Reader), Deborah Kapchan (Gender on the Market: Moroccan Women and the Revoicing of Tradition) and Peter Thompson (A Passenger from the West by Nabile Farès) explore the effects of the Arab uprisings in North Africa on poetry and narratives and discuss their recent works in translation. Moderated by Nathalie Handal (Language of a New Century: Poetry from the Middle East, Asia & Beyond).

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