Arab Literature and Culture in the West and Beyond
Date May, 12 2022
Location Virtual
In collaboration with SOAS, the Sheikh Zayed Book Award held a webinar titled 'the impact of Arab Literature in the West and Beyond'. The discussion was joined by H.E. Dr. Ali Bin Tamim, Secretary-General of SZBA and Chairman of Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre, along with Michael Cooperson, SZBA 2021 winner, Robert Irwin, Middle East editor of TLS, Huda Fakhreddine, Associate Professor of Arabic Literature at the University of Pennsylvania and moderated by Prof. Wen-chin Ouyang, Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at SOAS.
Speakers
Dr. Ali bin Tamim
Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Center, Sheikh Zayed Book Award Secretary General.
Michael Cooperson
An American author and translator, Cooperson studied at Harvard University and the American University of Cairo, and is currently a professor of Arabic language and literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has published two monographs on early Abbasid cultural history: ‘Classical Arabic Biography’ and ‘Al-Ma'mun’. In addition to Impostures, he has translated Abdelfattah Kilito's ‘L'Auteur et ses doubles (The Author and his Doubles)’ and Ibn al-Jawzi's ‘Manaqib al-Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal (Virtues of the Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal)’. His other interests include Maltese language and culture.
Prof. Wen-Chin Ouyang
Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at SOAS, University of London
Robert Irwin
Author and the Middle East editor of Times Literary Supplement
Huda Fakhreddine
Associate Professor of Arabic Literature at the University of Pennsylvania