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SUMMARY:Rencontre Littéraires et Poétiques : Coline Houssais\, Karim Kattan et Rachida Belkacem
DESCRIPTION:RSVP \nThe Markaz Review fait sa rentrée littéraire au Festival Arabesques. Venez découvrir nos deux évènements littéraires et poétiques au Domaine D’O à Montpellier. \n\nColine Houssais présentera son livre Paris en lettres arabes (Actes Sud 2024)\, qui jette des ponts entre la culture parisienne et divers écrivains arabes au fil du temps. Le samedi 21 septembre à 15h au Domaine d’O\, entrée gratuite.\n\nColine Houssais est spécialiste des cultures du monde arabe. Formée à l’Institut d’études arabes de Damas et au campus Moyen-Orient-Méditerranée de Sciences Po\, où elle enseigne aujourd’hui\, elle est également traductrice\, journaliste et chercheuse indépendante.  La conversation sera animée par Sarah Naili de The Markaz Review.  \n\n L’écrivain palestinien Karim Kattan et la poétesse franco-marocaine Rachida Belkacem seront réunis pour une conversation littéraire le dimanche 22 septembre 2024 à 15h au Domaine d’O\, entrée gratuite.\n\nKarim Kattan présentera son nouveau roman paru aux éditions Elyzad\, L’Éden à l’aube\, autour de l’histoire d’amour d’Isaac et Gabriel\, à Jérusalem\, où il est question de djinns et de checkpoints\, au cœur de la Palestine. \nKarim Kattan est un écrivain palestinien de Bethléem. Il est docteur en littérature comparée. Il écrit en anglais et en français. Ses textes — fictions\, essais\, et poèmes — sont à la convergence des littératures de l’imaginaire et des littératures expérimentales. \nRachida Belkacem présentera son dernier recueil de poésie\, L’Odyssée des possibles.  \nAncienne chroniqueuse radio et membre de jurys de prix littéraires\, Rachida Belkacem est très impliquée dans la vie culturelle française et marocaine. En 2023\, elle publie un recueil de poésie intitulé Phronésis (Mindset Éditions)\, un ouvrage en prose sur la lumière\, la liberté et l’optimisme. Dans l’ouvrage collectif Maroc de quoi avons-nous peur\, sorti en 2020\, elle analyse la condition des femmes marocaines : « L’évolution de la condition féminine\, pour qu’elle s’inscrive dans les mœurs et les mentalités\, ne peut être que le fruit d’une action inclusive impliquant les hommes. »  \nLa conversation sera animée par Jordan Elgrably\, rédacteur en chef de The Markaz Review. \nPour en savoir plus : www.festivalarabesques.fr 
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LOCATION:Domaine D’O\, 178\, rue de la Carriérasse\, Montpellier\, 34090\, France
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SUMMARY:GATEKEEPERS: Arab Writers\, Editors & Publishers Confront Mainstream Opposition
DESCRIPTION:RSVP \nThe Markaz Review presents GATEKEEPERS: Arab Writers\, Editors & Publishers Confront Mainstream Opposition\, a roundtable with Palestinian authors/publishers/editors Michel Moushabeck and Hannah Moushabeck\, and author/publisher/editor Ammiel Alcalay. Free speech and the freedom to publish inconvenient truths during the war on Gaza; what hoops and misconceptions do writers and publishers from the region face; and who gatekeepers in popular Western publishing are some of the topics for the panel\, which will be moderated by TMR editors Jordan Elgrably & Malu Halasa. \n___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nAbout the speakers: \n \nMichel Moushabeck is the founder of the independently owned Interlink Books (1987)\, which has an active list of over 1\,000 titles and has published more Arab authors than any other US publisher. He is also a writer\, editor\, and musician of Palestinian Arab descent. In April this year he received the Arab American of the Year Award from ACCESS in Detroit. Moushabeck lectures frequently on Arabic music and literature in translation. He plays music almost daily; is an avid hiker and mountain climber; and is a rather obsessive collector of jazz and world music\, world percussion instruments\, books\, old maps\, and contemporary art. \n  \nHannah Moushabeck is a second-generation Palestinian American author and book worker who was raised in a family of publishers and booksellers and learned the power of literature at a young age. Hannah has worked in publishing for over a decade at companies such as Chronicle Books\, The Quarto Group\, and Simon & Schuster. She now runs Interlink Publishing\, the only Palestinian-owned publisher in the United States\, alongside her family. Her debut picture book Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine (Chronicle Books) won The New England Book Award and The Arab American Book Award. She lives in Amherst\, Massachusetts on the homelands of the Pocumtuc and Nipmuc Nations. \n  \nAmmiel Alcalay is a poet\, novelist\, translator\, essayist\, critic\, and scholar. Among his more than 20 books are After Jews and Arabs: Remaking Levantine Culture; Memories of Our Future; a little history; and the forthcoming Follow the Person: Archival Encounters\, as well as CONTROLLED DEMOLITION: a work in four books. His co-translation of Palestinian poet Nasser Rabah’s Gaza: The Poem Said Its Piece\, is due out in early 2025. He received an American Book Award in for his work as founder and General Editor of Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative\, and is a Distinguished Professor at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center. \nRead his essay in our latest issue: My Life Among the Gatekeepers \n\nModerators \n \nJordan Elgrably is an American\, French and Moroccan writer and translator whose stories and creative nonfiction have appeared in many anthologies and reviews\, including Apulée\, Salmagundi\, and the Paris Review. Editor-in-chief and founder of The Markaz Review\, he is the cofounder and former director of the Levantine Cultural Center/The Markaz in Los Angeles (2001–2020). He is the editor of Stories From the Center of the World: New Middle East Fiction (City Lights\, 2024)\, and co-editor with Malu Halasa of Sumūd: a New Palestinian Reader (Seven Stories\, 2024)\, Based in Montpellier\, France and California\, he tweets @JordanElgrably. \nRead the editorial in our latest issue: Why GATEKEEPERS? \nMalu Halasa\, literary editor at The Markaz Review\, is a London-based writer and editor. Her latest book as editor is Woman Life Freedom: Voices and Art From the Women’s Protests in Iran (Saqi 2023). Her six previous co-edited anthologies include Syria Speaks: Art and Culture from the Frontline\, with coedited with Zaher Omareen & Nawara Mahfoud; The Secret Life of Syrian Lingerie: Intimacy and Design\, with Rana Salam; and the short series: Transit Beirut: New Writing and Images\, with Rosanne Khalaf\, and Transit Tehran: Young Iran and Its Inspirations\, with Maziar Bahari. She was managing editor of the Prince Claus Fund Library; a founding editor of Tank Magazine and Editor at Large for Portal 9. As a freelance journalist in London\, she has covered wide-ranging subjects\, from water as occupation in Israel/Palestine to Syrian comics during the present-day conflict. Her books\, exhibitions and lectures chart a changing Middle East. Malu Halasa’s debut novel\, Mother of All Pigs was reviewed by the New York Times as “a microcosmic portrait of … a patriarchal order in slow-motion decline.” She tweets at @halasamalu. \nRead her essay in our latest issue: Featured Artists—”Barred From Home” \n___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nRSVP
URL:https://themarkaz.org/oldsite/event/gatekeepers-arab-writers-editors-publishers-confront-mainstream-opposition/
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SUMMARY:TMR Book Club on Stories from the Center of the World readings & conversation
DESCRIPTION:The Markaz Book Club invites you to readings and conversation about Stories from the Center of the World: New Middle East Fiction\, edited by Jordan Elgrably and published in May by City Lights in San Francisco. Participating are editors Jordan Elgrably and Malu Halasa\, along with writers Leila Aboulela\, Farah Ahamed and Tariq Mehmood\, who will read from their short stories\, and discuss the state of short fiction out of the region TMR calls “the center of the world\,” from Pakistan in the east to Morocco in the west.\n\n\nJoin us for this roundtable discussion on Sunday\, September 29th at 1pm EST/ 6pm UK/ 7pm CET on Zoom.\n\n\nRSVP here\n\n_____________________________________________________________________________________________________\n\nAbout the speakers:\n\n\nLeila Aboulela is author of the story “Raise Your Head High.”Her most recent novel is River Spirit\, published by Saqi Books. Her short story collection Elsewhere\, Home\, won the Saltire Fiction Book of the Year. Leila was born in Cairo\, grew up in Khartoum and moved in her mid-twenties to Scotland where she now lives.\n\n\n\nFarah Ahamed wrote the story “Anarkali\, or Six Early Deaths in Lahore.” Her writing has been published in Ploughshares\, White Review\, LA Review of Books\, Massachusetts Review\, World Literature Today and The Markaz Review\, among others. She lives in London.\n\n\nJordan Elgrably is the founder of The Markaz Review\, author of the story “The Afghan and the Persian\,” and editor of the anthology Stories from the Center of the World published by City Lights.\n\n\nMalu Halasa is literary editor at The Markaz review and the author of the short story “A Dog in the Woods” in the same anthology.\n\n\n\nTariq Mehmood is the writer of the story “The Settlement\,” as well as a novelist and filmmaker. Among his works are the novel Hand On The Sun\, on the experience of racism by young migrants to the UK\, and While There Is Light\, a novel backdropped by the case of the BRADFORD 12. He lives and teaches in Beirut.\n\n_____________________________________________________________________________________________________\n\nThis program is online and free to the public. Don’t miss what promises to be a rich conversation about short stories and TMR’s first fiction anthology. This roundtable is supported by grants from Hawthornden and Open Society Foundations. \n  \nRSVP here
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