Browsing: literature

The I Symposium on Women and Arab Literature will occur from November 16 to 18. The event is organized by the International Center for Arab and Islamic Studies of the Federal University of Sergipe, partnering with the Arab Women’s Film Festival and Editora Tabla publishing house.

The Lebanese-descendant writer launched earlier this year her new novel “Elas marchavam sob o sol” [They marched under the sun]. The writer was a finalist of the Jabuti Award 2018 and won São Paulo Prize for Literature with her previous novel.

Online magazine Revista Pessoa will release translated works by 12 writers, including Milton Hatoum, Raduan Nassar, Marcelo Maluf and Socorro Acioli next year, via a partnership involving Abu Dhabi’s Kalima Project for Translation and the Arab Chamber.