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SUMMARY:May Ziadeh Salon and Book Pre-Launch
DESCRIPTION:Who was May Ziadeh (1886-1941) & why was she an important part of Arabic letters? An introduction to Ziadeh’s “Musings of a Young Woman.” \n\n\n\n\nCome for the first of our May Ziadeh salons and a book pre-launch celebration of Musings of a Young Woman (forthcoming\, ArabLit Books). \nJoin scholars\, translators\, editors\, & enthusiasts to learn more about May Ziadeh\, her writing\, and her importance to the early twentieth century literary scene. \nJoin Dana Al Shahbari\, a May Ziadeh scholar who wrote the introduction to the book; the book’s managing editor\, Ibtihal Mahmood; one of our translators\, the novelist Layla Alammar; and editor Mennan Salih. Emceed by ArabLit’s founding editor M Lynx Qualey. \nDana Al Shahbari is a PhD researcher at the University of Cambridge\, specializing in the Arab Renaissance (Nahda)\, its intellectual history\, and Arab women’s writing. Her research focuses on the recovery of May Ziadeh (1886–1941) through scholarship and archival work. She explores how Ziadeh’s writings that span journalistic essays\, poetry\, literary correspondence\, and experimental prose\, challenge dominant narratives of Arab modernity and offer new frameworks for understanding women’s intellectual production and rethinking questions of gender and literary authority. Dana holds both her undergraduate and master’s degrees from the American University of Beirut(AUB)\, where she also minored in Arabic and Near Eastern Languages. Her work has been published in both Arabic and English\, including co-authoring 101 Arab Women Writers(Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre\,2024) and contributing a chapter to Feminist Readings in Arab Intellectual History. Alongside her academic research\, Dana is also interested in translation and public humanities. \nIbtihal Rida Mahmood is a writer\, editor\, translator\, and poet. She is the translator and co-editor of Snow in Amman: An Anthology of Short Stories from Jordan (2015) and the English translator of Yassin al-Haj Saleh’s The Impossible Revolution: Making Sense of the Syrian Tragedy (2017). Her essays\, translations\, and criticism have appeared in The Markaz Review\, New Internationalist\, Qantara\, The Seattle Globalist\, and Women Writers\, Women’s Books. Her poetry and literary translations have been featured in international anthologies\, including The Art of Being Human (2013)\, Premio Mondiale di Poesia Nosside (2014)\, and Versus Versus: 100 Poems by Deaf\, Disabled & Neurodivergent Poets (2025). She is a contributing editor at ArabLit. She also publishes the Substack newsletter Naked Shadows on a Black Wall. \nLayla Alammar is an Assistant Professor at the American University of Kuwait. She earned a PhD in Arab women’s literature and literary trauma theory from Lancaster University and an MSc in Creative Writing from the University of Edinburgh. She is also a novelist and translator. Her debut novel\, The Pact We Made (2019)\, was nominated for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award while Silence is a Sense (2021) was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. She has written for The Guardian\, LitHub\, the Times Literary Supplement\, ArabLit Quarterly\, The New Arab\, GQ Middle East\, NewLines Magazine\, and The Markaz Review. \nMennan Salih is a translator\, language consultant\, and editor; she is also the writer of The Arabic Pages. A PhD candidate at the University of Westminster\, she researches metaphors in Arabic literature through a psycholinguistic lens. Mennan—who is originally from Cyprus—has a keen interest in both modern and ancient languages\, and is currently studying the Old Babylonian variant of Akkadian. She holds a BA (Hons) in Arabic and Linguistics and an MA in Advanced Arabic. \nM Lynx Qualey is the founding editor of ArabLit.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/may-ziadeh-salon-and-book-pre-launch/
LOCATION:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Hannah Moushabeck presents 'Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine'
DESCRIPTION:A love letter to home\, to family\, and to persistent hope that transcends borders.\nThird Place Books welcomes author Hannah Moushabeck to our Lake Forest Park store for a conversation about her picture book Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine: a moving\, beautifully illustrated story of a family keeping their home alive in memory. \nThis event is free and open to the public. For important updates\, RSVP is highly recommended in advance. This event will include a public signing and time for audience Q&A. Sustain our author series by purchasing a copy of the featured book!
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/hannah-moushabeck-presents-homeland-my-father-dreams-of-palestine/
LOCATION:Third Place Books – Lake Forest Park\, 17171 Bothell Way NE #A101\, Lake Forest Park\, WA\, 98155\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading,Books/Literature/Writing
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SUMMARY:Honoring Ghassan Kanafani
DESCRIPTION:Join us to honor our martyr Ghassan Kanafani\, the writer\, artist and revolutionary who is a compass of our struggle. We will be studying his works\, creating art and building community together. We look forward to seeing you there. \nSAVE THE DATE: Wednesday\, July 8th.\nLOCATION: TBD. Details to come. \nKanafani Lives! Palestine Lives!
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/honoring-ghassan-kanafani/
LOCATION:TBD
CATEGORIES:Books/Literature/Writing,Gathering,Social Justice
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SUMMARY:Randa Tawil: 'Race in Transit: Tracing the Politics of Migration from Ottoman Syria through US Empire'
DESCRIPTION:The hope\, struggle\, and complexity of life on the move\nThird Place Books welcomes University of Washington lecturer Randa Tawil to our Ravenna store for a conversation about her new book\, Race in Transit: Tracing the Politics of Migration from Ottoman Syria through US Empire. Making migrants the agents of a world history that has too often relegated them to the sidelines\, Race in Transit explores the social construction of race in the early twentieth century and its impacts on Syrian migrants to the United States. Maryam S. Griffin\, author of Vehicles of Decolonization: Public Transit in the Palestinian West Bank\, joins in conversation. \n  \nThis event is free and open to the public. For important updates\, RSVP is highly recommended in advance. This event will include a public signing and time for audience Q&A. Sustain our author series by purchasing a copy of the featured book! \n*** \nRanda Tawil is a Palestinian-Lebanese researcher\, writer\, and lecturer at University of Washington in the Jackson School of International Studies. She holds a doctorate in American Studies from Yale University\, and writes about migration\, US empire\, and the Middle East. Her work has been featured in The Washington Post\, Margins\, and Open Democracy\, as well as scholarly journals. \nMaryam S. Griffin is an associate professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at University of Washington\, Bothell. Broadly\, her work examines people’s ordinary movements\, both physical and political\, and how they confront state power in quotidian and spectacular ways. She is the author of Vehicles of Decolonization: Public Transit in the Palestinian West Bank\, part of the Critical Race\, Indigeneity\, and Relationality book series with Temple University Press\, and the co-editor of We Will Not Be Silenced: The Academic Repression of Israel’s Critics.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/randa-tawil-race-in-transit-tracing-the-politics-of-migration-from-ottoman-syria-through-us-empire/
LOCATION:Third Place Books – Ravenna\, 6504 20th Ave NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98115\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Novelist Diana Abu-Jaber
DESCRIPTION:We explore the role of literature in navigating identity\, memory\, and cultural belonging. \n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a powerful online conversation with award-winning author Diana Abu-Jaber as we explore the role of literature in navigating identity\, memory\, and cultural belonging. \nThrough her acclaimed novels and memoirs\, Abu-Jaber has carved a unique space in contemporary literature — weaving themes of heritage\, displacement\, and storytelling across borders. In this live panel\, she will share her insights on writing between cultures\, the nuances of Arab-American identity\, and the enduring power of narrative to bridge personal and political landscapes.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/a-conversation-with-novelist-diana-abu-jaber/
LOCATION:Virtual
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