‘In the Footsteps of Enayat Al-Zayyat’ in collaboration with Al Multaqa Literary Salon
Date May, 26 2021
Location Live Zoom Webinar
Sheikh Zayed Book Award at the Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre, in collaboration with Al Multaqa Literary Salon, hosted Egyptian author and SZBA 2021 Literature winner Iman Mersal in a literary discourse entitled ‘In the Footsteps of Enayat Al-Zayyat’.
The Founder and Chair of Al Multaqa Literary Salon, Asma Siddiq Al Mutawaa, moderated the virtual webinar and engaged the audience in a conversation that explored Mersal's winning book (In The Footsteps of Enayat Al Zayat).
To watch the full session, visit http://bit.ly/SZBA2021Multaqa. Highlights from the session are available for viewing on http://bit.ly/SZBA2021MultaqaHighlights.
Speakers
Asma Siddiq Al Mutawaa
Founder and Chair of Al Multaqa Literary Salon
Iman Mersal
Egyptian poet, writer, academic and translator. She works as an Associate professor of Arabic literature and Middle Eastern studies at the University of Alberta, Canada and currently resides in Marseille, France, where she holds the Albert Camus chair at IMéRA, the Institute for Advanced Study of Aix-Marseille University until July 2021, while working on a book entitled Al Laknah: Al Sawt fee Ghair Makaneh (Accent: the Displaced Voice). An anthology of her works was translated into more than twenty languages and she has five poetry collections published. Her most recent published works include Hatta Atakhlla Aan Fekrat Al Boyot (Until I Abandon the Idea of Homes) in 2013, Kayfa Taltaem: Aan Al Omoma wa Askhbahuha (How to Amend: On Motherhood and its Ghosts) in 2017, and Fee Athar Enayat Al Zayyat (In the Footsteps of Enayat Al-Zayyat) in 2019. Her book, Mamar Moetem Yasloh fee Talom Al Raks (A Dark Path Suitable for Learning to Dance), is one of the most important poetry books issued by the generation of the nineties in Arabic poetry.