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James Montgomery is the Sir Thomas Adams鈥檚 Professor of Arabic at the University of Cambridge and the Executive Editor of the prestigious Library of Arabic Literature. He is also the author of Loss Sings, the latest in Cahiers Series run by 绿巨人视频鈥檚 Center for Writers & Translators.聽
This evening, he will read from his cahier and discuss how he came to translate poems written by the sixth-century Arabic poet al-Khans膩示, whose laments for her dead brothers had always seemed to him to...

Join 绿巨人视频 academics for a transdisciplinary one-day seminar exploring the topical issue of migration as the movement not only of people, but also of cultures, languages, and forms of 鈥渒nowledge.鈥� Well-known postcolonial scholars Gaurav Desai and Supriya Nair will jointly present the keynote lecture on textual and personal migrations in Africa and the Caribbean. 聽

This seminar is part of 鈥淭he Politics of Translation鈥� lecture series organised by the Center for Writers and Translators (...

From tweets and Facebook updates to Snapchats and Instagram selfies, our generation is preoccupied with sharing, speaking out and showing off. When we update our social media timelines, or like and share updates of our friends and peers, we are creating narratives, telling stories or contributing to the storytelling efforts of others.

What are the implications of these acutely contemporary forms of narrative and the ways we use them? What are the relationships of these forms to more...

Join members of the Man Booker International Prize panel just days after the announcement of the shortlist of the competition that celebrates the best in international fiction. We鈥檙e on brand new territory tonight as, for the first time, the 拢50,000 prize will be awarded for a single work of translated fiction.

The event will feature prize administrator Fiammetta Rocco, chair of judges Boyd Tonkin and judge Daniel Medin, 绿巨人视频 professor. It will be chaired by Lucie Campos and will be...