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Go top“Our Oracle Ruin: Reading from Gaza’s Book of Genocide,” a conversation about Palestinian poetry from Gaza with Huda Fakhreddine and Sinan Antoon
Date/Time
Date(s) - 03/12/2026
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Location
315 Wheeler Hall
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Cost:
free USD
Contact Person:
Eve Letendre
Email:
rfa@berkeley.edu
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Phone:
510–642–1415
Organization:
BERKELEY, CA
“Our Oracle Ruin: Reading from Gaza’s Book of Genocide,” a conversation about Palestinian poetry from Gaza (with readings in Arabic and English translation) with Huda Fakhreddine and Sinan Antoon.
Huda J. Fakhreddine is a writer, translator, and Associate Professor of Arabic Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Metapoesis in the Arabic Tradition (Brill, 2015) and The Arabic Prose Poem: Poetic Theory and Practice (Edinburgh University Press, 2021), and the co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Poetry (Routledge, 2023). Among her translations are Lighthouse for the Drowning (BOA editions, 2017), The Universe, All at Once: Selections from Salim Barakat (Seagull Books, 2024), and Palestinian: Four Poems by Ibrahim Nasrallah (World Poetry Books, 2024). Her creative writings include a book of creative non-fiction titled Zaman saghīr taḥt shams thāniya [A Brief Time under a Different Sun], (Dar al-Nahda, 2019) and the forthcoming Wa min thamma al-ālam [And then the World!], (Manshūrāt Marfa’, 2025). She is co-editor of Middle Eastern Literatures and BSME, Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures series.
Sinan Antoon is an Iraqi poet, novelist, translator, and scholar. He holds degrees from Baghdad and Harvard, where he earned a doctorate in Arabic literature. He has published two collections of poetry and five novels in Arabic. His most recent self-translations include a selection of poems: Postcards from the Underworld (Seagull Books, 2023) and his fifth novel, Of Loss and Lavender, (forthcoming from The Other Press in 2026). His translation of his second novel, The Corpse Washer, won the 2013 Arab American Book Prize. Antoon’s translations from the Arabic include Mahmoud Darwish’s In the Presence of Absence, which won the 2012 American Literary Translators Association Award. His essays and op-eds in English have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Nation, and Journal of Arabic Literature, among others. His scholarly works include The Poetics of the Obscene: Ibn al-Hajjaj and Sukhf (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2014) and a forthcoming monograph on the Iraqi poet, Sargon Boulus.
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- Contact Info:
- rfa@berkeley.edu
- Access Coordinator:
- Eve Letendre, rfa@berkeley.edu, 510–642–1415
