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Events from September 28, 2022 – October 8, 2025 – Islam, the Humanities and the Human Events from September 28, 2022 – October 8, 2025 – Islam, the Humanities and the Human

The Trials and Jubilations of Translating Arabic Literature

Zoom

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 … Read More

Playing for Time: One Thousand and One Nights

Conklin 445

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 … Read More

The Dawn is Too Far : Film Screening + Q&A

PRCC Essex Room

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. This film charts the longer history of Iranian Americans in the San Francisco Bay area and the ways they have been impacted and contributed to … Read More