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Translation Studies Seminar Series 2007/08

Centre for Translation & Intercultural Studies
School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures
University of Manchester, UK

Mondays 2-4 p.m., Samuel Alexander Building, Room A101
(formerly known as Humanities Lime Grove Building)

One-day Symposium on Contemporary Arabic Drama, Saturday 9 February 2008, 10.00am to 4.00pm

The Department of Drama and Music of the University of Hull and the Middle
East Dramatic Arts Forum are pleased to announce:
A one-day Symposium on Contemporary Arabic Drama
Saturday 9 February 2008, 10.00am to 4.00pm

Followed by a script-in-hand reading of Lenin El-Ramly¹s play: THE CAPTIVES

The keynote speaker will be the award-winning Egyptian playwright Lenin
El-Ramly.

Other speakers will include:
Sawsan Darwaza, Sulayman Al-Bassam, Nabil Sawalha plus Grid Iron

The fee for the Symposium will be £75 (student concession £40), to include
lunch and refreshments during the day. There will also be an optional dinner
for those staying on for the evening¹s performance.

More details to follow.

In the meantime, registration forms are available form Tony Meech, Head of Department of Drama and Music, University of Hull.

BOOK LAUNCH OF ‘BREAKING THE CYCLE: CIVIL WARS IN LEBANON’ , Edited by Youssef Choueiri

30TH JANUARY 2008 AT 6:30 PM AT THE ARAB-BRITISH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
The Centre for Lebanese Studies will be launching their latest publication at The Arab British Chamber of Commerce, 43 Upper Grosvenor Street, London W1K 2NJ. This major new book gathers essays by a selection of distinguished
Commentators on the Middle East, addressing the matter of how to avoid the Prospect of further civil wars in Lebanon.
Dr. Youssef Choueiri, editor of the book, will give a short explanatory address which will be followed by a Drinks reception.

If you wish to attend please confirm to Katy Shea on 020-72217166 or
. All are welcome.

Lectures in Medieval Arab History - University of Edinburgh

CASAW Seminar Series - January to March 2008
Organised by Professor Carole Hillenbrand

Translation project to bring cream of foreign writers to Arabs

Books by Stephen Hawking, Umberto Eco, Haruki Murakami and other star writers past and present have been chosen as the first works to be translated into Arabic, in a major initiative to widen access to foreign literature. www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2214876,00.html

Being Disabled in Palestine

Samer Aqrouq, UNESCO Chair on Human Rights and Democracy, An-Najah National University, Nablus

University of Edinburgh, 13 November 2007