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URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/exportability-and-context-reading-a
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SUMMARY:Exportability and Context: Reading Arabic Literature in the West
DESCRIPTION:Online Event\nA Crown Seminar with Hosam Aboul-Ela in conversat
 ion with Mona Kareem\nWednesday\, April 19\, 2023\n11:00am–12:15pm EDT\n
 Register for your Zoom login\nHow is Arabic literature repackaged for Eur
 opean and American audiences? What is the translator's role? How do writer
 s\, translators\, and other artists navigate between craft and vocation? I
 n this Crown Seminar\, Hosam Aboul-Ela\, in conversation with Mona Kareem\
 , will discuss the "exportability" of Arabic literature by looking at the 
 work of Egyptian novelist Sonallah Ibrahim in its Arabic\, French\, and En
 glish versions. Aboul-Ela argues the term “exportability” speaks to th
 e challenges of understanding the novels of Ibrahim in their original cont
 ext and reimagining them in the different contexts into which they are tra
 nslated.\n\nHosam Aboul-Ela is a professor of English and the AAEF/Burhan
  and Misako Ajuz Professor of Arab Studies at the University of Houston.\n
 Mona Kareem\, moderator\, is a junior research fellow at the Crown Center.
 \nNaghmeh Sohrabi\, chair\, is the director for research at the Crown Cent
 er and the Charles (Corky) Goodman Professor of Middle East History.\nCo-s
 ponsored by the Mandel Center for the Humanities at Brandeis.\n\nThis se
 minar is online\, free\, and open to the public. Registration is require
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CATEGORIES:Online seminar
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