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SUMMARY:Authors: Peter Cole and Iman Mersal (Virtual)
DESCRIPTION:If only this evening could be staged in the same room\, as we range around a good part of the world in hosting three poets – Peter Cole and Iman Mersal virtually at 5 p.m. – and another\, Naveen Kishore in store at 7 p.m. Between them\, the U.S.\, Israel/Palestine\, Egypt\, Canada\, and India\, with their poetic and literary concerns extending beyond whatever borders those nationalities might pose. This 5 p.m virtual program returns poet/translator/editor Peter Cole to Elliott Bay to read from his newest collection\, Draw Me After (Farrar\, Straus & Giroux)\, and it helps introduce an overdue major collection of one of the world’s major poets\, Iman Mersal with her new book\, The Threshold (translated from the Arabic by Robyn Creswell / Farrar\, Straus & Giroux).  \nPeter Cole’s Draw Me After very much has ‘drawing’ in it\, with work by Terry Winters\, which he dares from\, so to speak.\n“‘Waking the letters from their slumber’: that’s Peter Cole’s mad\, sublime task in these phantasmagoric poems. Every line of this book breaks the literal—the letters—into visionary scenes where sorrow marries joy and blessings almost rhyme with curse. A revelation.” —Rosanna Warren.\n“Peter Cole shows himself in Draw Me After to be our great master of ekphrasis. Visually\, sonically\, rhythmically\, semantically\, his are some of the most inventive\, witty\, profound\, and genuinely beautiful lyric poems of our moment.” —Marjorie Perloff.\nPeter Cole has written several previous books of poems\, including Hymns & Qualms and Rift\, and he has also translated widely from Hebrew and Arabic works—both medieval and modern. With Adina Hoffman\, he has co-written Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza and also published books as Ibis Editions. He is the recipient of many honors\, including a Guggenheim Fellowship\, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature\, the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation\, a National Jewish Book Award\, and a MacArthur Fellowship. He divides his time between Jerusalem and New Haven.  \nJoining us\, we believe\, from Edmonton\, where she is a professor of Arabic language and literature at the University of Alberta is Iman Mersal. The Threshold\, translated by Robyn Creswell\, draws from several of her noted earlier books of poetry ranging back nearly thirty years and coming up to the present – A Dark Alley Suitable for Dance Lessons\, Walking as Long as Possible\, Alternative Geography\, and Until I Give Up the Idea of Home. Her most recent book\, the prose work Traces of Enayat (all of these\, we’re giving translated titles)\, received the Sheikh Zayed Book Award for Literature in 2021.\n“The publication of Iman Mersal’s The Threshold is a major literary event. Long recognized throughout the Arab world and in Europe\, Mersal is one of the strongest confessional (or postconfessional) poets we now have\, in any language: her poems are fueled by a mordant wit\, sensual vibrancy\, and feminist brio. Impatient with pieties—whether political\, erotic\, or poetic—she writes\, like Louise Glück\, with emotional intensity and analytic coolness. This is poetry of earned and perfect pitch: the notations of an impassioned mind. I read The Threshold straight through; it will become a permanent companion.” —Maureen N. McLane. “Undeceived\, ironic\, daring\, Iman Mersal’s poems are animated by a singular sensibility. They deal candidly with real life—migration\, dying parents\, emotional entanglements—and discover general truths among the fine particulars. Robyn Creswell’s translation is deft and subtle\, and the Anglophone world is lucky to have it.” —Nick Laird. \n  \nPeter Cole and Iman MersalTuesday Nov 29 2022 5:00pm – 6:00pm\nVirtually Hosted by Elliott Bay Book Company. \nRegistration/Information
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/authors-peter-cole-and-iman-mersal-virtual/
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SUMMARY:Rabih Alameddine with Michael David Lukas and R.O. Kwon
DESCRIPTION:One of our favorite\, and one of our most necessary literary writers at work today\, Rabih Alameddine\, makes this welcome Elliott Bay return in virtual form to read from and discuss his brilliant new novel\, The Wrong End of the Telescope (Grove Press). Here the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for An Unnecessary Woman\, as well The Hakawati\, I\, the Divine\, and others\, again tells the story of a singular woman.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/rabih-alameddine-with-michael-david-lukas-and-r-o-kwon/
CATEGORIES:Book Reading,Lecture/Panel Discussion
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SUMMARY:Virtual:  Building for Hope with Marwa al-Sabouni
DESCRIPTION:We can’t begin to say how delighted\, how grateful\, how honored we are to finally be able to present a program with author\, thinker\, architect\, Marwa al-Sabouni. If all goes well (In sh’Allah)\, she will be joining us at this special hour\,  virtually and ‘live’ from her home in Homs\, Syria to discuss her extraordinary new book\, Building for Hope: Towards an Architecture of Belonging (Thames & Hudson). Building for Hope comes five years after Marwa al-Sabouni’s first book\, The Battle for Home: The Vision of a Young Architect in Syria\, introduced the larger world to a writer uniquely adept at using words to convey ideas from books\, book-study\, life being fully lived (and wars survived) and from the physical spaces of buildings\, streets\, land-use patterns that do so much to shape how we live as individuals and as communities and countries. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Ambitious… Building for Hope is expansive\, abstract\, and at times extraordinarily idealistic… Al-Sabouni argues that architecture is a necessary agent for any kind of peace\, any possibility of belonging in our modern\, extremely polarized world… It’s especially enlightening to read about Western cities through the lens of an architect specialized in Islamic traditions… Building for Hope is dense and daring. Readers will finish with a list of people and places to investigate\, as well as with a firm belief that a better future lies in valuing community over ostentation\, coherence and decency over luxury\, truly livable cities over places designed purely for profit.” – World-Architects.com. \n“A gifted writer and illustrator\, al-Sabouni’s visionary ideas will inspire architects\, designers and urban planners across the world.” – Shahina Piyarali \, Shelf Awareness. \nYes\, the illustrations\, that language\, too. This is one not to be missed. \nSaturday\, September 25\, 2021 – 10:00am
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/virtual-building-for-hope-with-marwa-al-sabouni/
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SUMMARY:Omar El Akkad with Jeff VanderMeer (Virtual)
DESCRIPTION:Novelist Omar El Akkad\, now living south of here in Portland\, but for many years an award-winning international journalist living and working out of Toronto\, blew readers away a few years ago with his eerily prescient first novel\, American War. He gave a moving reading from that at Elliott Bay. We anticipate similar engagement for readers attending this – and reading – his haunting\, beautifully written new novel\, What Strange Paradise (Knopf). There is an overwhelmed boat filled with refugees fleeing homelands such as Syria\, Ethiopia\, Lebanon\, Palestine\, a boat which\, in time\, capsizes. There is a survivor\, a young boy\, and his attempts to elude would-be captors\, aided by a young girl living on the island he has washed ashore upon. These are the bare bones of what Omar El Akkad does with extraordinary skill\, empathy\, compassion. \n“What Strange Paradise is by turns tender and brutal in its truths. It is tremendously written\, propulsive as it is expansive as it is granular in its specificities. Omar El Akkad writes with such emotional precision\, power\, and grace. Here we get the wondrousness of children set in sharp relief against a backdrop of the all too common dehumanization then dismissal of refugees everywhere. The book devastates and uplifts\, somehow\, and we are not left with hope—that isn’t the point—but asked to witness\, to see what is here\, with clarity\, and with fullness of heart.” —Tommy Orange. \n“What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad just resuscitated my heart. This novel—following a boy who survives a refugee passage\, and a girl whose homeland feels fractured—dares to unite us on the shore of shared human experience\, and redefines hope in the face of despair. I want to read this book every single day. I want to live in a world where the beauty of strangers is a heartsong.”  —Lidia Yuknavitch. \nWith Omar El Akkad in conversation this evening will be the wonderful writer Jeff VanDerMeer\, who recently did an evening such as this for Elliott Bay readers with his own newest novel\, Hummingbird Salamander. A generous supporter of other writers and many good causes\, he and Omar El Akkad have some interesting shared literary ‘history’ of a good sort\, which will no doubt come out this evening.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/omar-el-akkad-with-jeff-vandermeer-virtual/
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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SUMMARY:Silence is a Sense: Layla AlAmma
DESCRIPTION:Joining us today from the UK (hence the weekend starting time) where she is pursuing doctoral work on ‘the intersection of Arab women’s fiction and literary trauma theory’ is Kuwait-born novelist Layla AlAmmar. She has written two novels\, both to much acclaim\, the second of which has become her first to be published in the U.S.\, Silence is a Sense (Algonquin). A woman has fled her homeland of Syria because of the civil war there\, coming to the UK – and trying there to reckon what it has all meant\, even if words aren’t there for saying it. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Silence Is a Sense is a fierce novel. The prose is ferocious\, the pace is ferocious and the beguiling central character\, known as The Voiceless\, conceals behind her inability—or reluctance — to speak\, a striking\, visceral intensity. She obsessively watches the people around her to silence her own trauma\, but every now and then it can’t help but break through. Layla AlAmmar has skillfully woven a narrative of memory and grief with an illuminating social critique of the position of asylum seekers within contemporary British society. It is daring and devastating.” —Fiona Mozley. \n“Kuwaiti-American author Layla AlAmmar masterfully depicts that silence is a refuge\, too\, for people affected by the unspeakable . . . AlAmmar succeeds in challenging the refugee or asylum-seeker stereotype\, including the one of a young Arab woman.”—The Markaz Review.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/silence-is-a-sense-layla-alamma/
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SUMMARY:ArabishWay Story Time  - Elliott Bay Book Company
DESCRIPTION:Local author\, Laila Taji will have 30 minutes of stories\, games and songs in Arabic (along with highlighting her book These Chicks/ هالصيصان). It will be very hands on and interactive! \nElliott Bay Book Company has a great coffee shop within so plan to arrive a little early\, grab a coffee and meet her there. \nGreat for all ages but content generally geared towards 18 months – 3 years old.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/arabishway-storytime-elliott-bay-book-company-july2019/
LOCATION:Elliott Bay Book Company\, 1521 10th Avenue\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Story Time
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SUMMARY:ArabishWay Story Time  - Elliott Bay Book Company
DESCRIPTION:Local author\, Laila Taji will have 30 minutes of stories\, games and songs in Arabic (along with highlighting her book These Chicks/ هالصيصان). It will be very hands on and interactive! \nElliott Bay Book Company has a great coffee shop within so plan to arrive a little early\, grab a coffee and meet her there. \nGreat for all ages but content generally geared towards 18 months – 3 years old.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/arabishway-storytime-elliott-bay-book-company/
LOCATION:Elliott Bay Book Company\, 1521 10th Avenue\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Story Time
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