Islam, the Humanities and the Human

Register in advance for this webinar:  https://rutgers.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yB9Q66wcSSibj1R1iTJTJw   The Trials and Jubilations of Translating Arabic Literature Speaker: Sawad Hussein Arabic-English Translator and winner of the 2019 Arablit Short Story Prize and five English PEN Translates awards. Respondent: Amir Moosavi Assistant Professor, Department of English Rutgers University Newark

One Thousand and One Nights is a work made of and by translation. The earliest Arabic fragments are already translations of an earlier Persian work, which borrowed in turn from stories of ancient India. The Arabic text itself is not stable: many different versions have proliferated over the centuries. The work’s authors are unknown, but … Read More

In Fantasmic Objects, Kirsten L. Scheid offers a striking study of both modern art in Lebanon and modern Lebanon through art. By focusing on the careers of Moustapha Farrouk and Omar … Read More

The Dawn is Too Far shares a multi-generational perspective of those who came as students, refugees, and exiles to the U.S., particularly in the context of the 1979 Iranian Revolution. … Read More