{"id":30924,"date":"2024-01-11T15:32:06","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T13:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=30924"},"modified":"2024-01-22T16:44:45","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T14:44:45","slug":"tmr-book-club-discusses-traces-of-enayat-with-iman-mersal","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/event\/tmr-book-club-discusses-traces-of-enayat-with-iman-mersal\/","title":{"rendered":"TMR Book Club Discusses &#8220;Traces of Enayat&#8221; with Iman Mersal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tZMscuGtrj4vEtDVv7UIQscNZnjwLO7gVcEl#\/registration\">RSVP here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cairo, 1963: Enayat al-Zayyat\u2019s suicide becomes a byword for talent tragically cut down, even as\u00a0<i>Love and Silence<\/i>, her only novel, languishes unpublished. Four years after al-Zayyat\u2019s death, the novel will be brought out, adapted for film and radio, praised, and then, cursorily, forgotten. For the next three decades it\u2019s as if al-Zayyat never existed.<\/p>\n<p>Yet when poet Iman Mersal stumbles across<i>\u00a0Love and Silence<\/i>\u00a0in the nineties, she is immediately hooked. Who was Enayat? Did the thought of her novel\u2019s rejection really lead to her suicide? Where did this startling voice come from? And why did\u00a0<i>Love and Silence<\/i> disappear from literary history? To answer these questions, Mersal traces Enayat\u2019s life, interviews family members and friends, reconstructs the afterlife of Enayat in the media, and tracks down the flats, schools, archaeological institutes, and sanatoriums among which Enayat divided her days. Touching on everything from dubious antidepressants to domestic abuse and divorce law, from rubbish-strewn squats in the City of the Dead to the glamour of golden-age Egyptian cinema, this wide-ranging, unclassifiable masterpiece gives us a remarkable portrait of a woman artist striving to live on her own terms. Published by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.andotherstories.org\/traces-of-enayat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">And Other Stories<\/a>\u00a0in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>We will meet to discuss the book with the author on Sunday, Jan. 28 at 1 pm Eastern\/19:00 CET.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tZMscuGtrj4vEtDVv7UIQscNZnjwLO7gVcEl#\/registration\">RSVP here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Markaz Book Club reads Iman Mersal&#8217;s novel &#8220;Traces of Enayat&#8221; and meets the author Sunday, Jan. 28 at 1 pm Eastern\/19:00 CET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":227,"featured_media":30926,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"coauthors":[2040],"class_list":["post-30924","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.8 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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