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URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/an-evening-with-iman-mersal/
SUMMARY:An Evening with Iman Mersal
DESCRIPTION:Las Vegas\, NV\nIman Mersal is an Egyptian poet\, essayist\, t
 ranslator and literary scholar. Currently Associate Professor of Arabic La
 nguage and Literature at the University of Alberta\, Canada\, she is the a
 uthor of five books of Arabic poetry\, selections from which have been tra
 nslated into numerous languages. In English translation\, her poems have a
 ppeared in The New Republic\, The New York Review of Books\, Parnassus\
 , Paris Review\, The Nation\, and American Poetry Review\, among others
 . These Are Not Oranges\, My Love\, a selection of Mersal’s work transl
 ated into English by Khaled Mattawa\, was published in 2008 (Sheep Meadow 
 Press)\, and The Threshold\, translated into English by Robyn Creswell\, 
 was published by Farrar\, Straus and Giroux in 2022.\n\nHer recent publica
 tions include Kayfa Talta’im: ‘An al-Umuma wa Ashbahiha\, 2017\, tran
 slated into English by Robin Moger as How to Mend: Motherhood and its Gho
 sts\, and published by Kayfa Ta and Sternberg Press (Berlin) in 2018. Mers
 al is the recipient of the 2021 Sheikh Zayed Book Award in Literature for 
 her creative nonfiction work Fi Athar Enayat Al-Zayyat (Traces of Enayat
  al-Zayyat)\, published in 2019 by Kotob Khan (Cairo). Robin Moger’s tra
 nslation\, Traces of Enayat\, is forthcoming from And Other Stories\, UK\
 , August 2023.\n\nQuestions? Please email blackmountaininstitute@unlv.edu 
 or call (702) 895-5542.\n\nThis program is funded in part by a grant from 
 Nevada Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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CATEGORIES:Live Reading
LOCATION:The Beverly Theater\, 515 S 6th St\, Las Vegas\, NV\, 89101\, Unit
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