Middle Eastern Studies Program Presents
Rasha Abbas and Alice Guthrie
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
Olin Humanities, Room 102
6:15 pm EST/GMT-5
6:15 pm EST/GMT-5
Rasha Abbas is a Syrian journalist and writer of short stories currently based in Berlin, Germany. In 2008, she published her first collection, "Adam Hates the Television," and was awarded a prize for young writers during the Damascus Capital of Arab Culture festival. In 2013 she co-wrote the script for a short film, "Happiness and Bliss," produced by Bedayat foundation, and in 2014 she contributed, both as a writer and as a translator, to "Syria Speaks: Art and Culture from the Frontline," published by Saqi Books. Last year she completed a Jean-Jacques Rousseau Fellowship, supported by Solitude Schloss Akademie, in Stuttgart, Germany, where she was working on her second short story collection, tentatively entitled "The Gist of It."
Alice Guthrie' s translations of contemporary Arabic literature have been published by a wide range of UK and US presses and venues, most recently Words Without Borders and the Massachusetts Review. She also edits Arabic-English translations for London’s Darf Books. Diverse media, NGO and academic translations have appeared in international online and print media, and her own (non-translated) journalistic work has featured in the Guardian and on the BBC. She was an American Literary Translators Association Fellow in 2014 and she is a recipient – with Rasha Abbas – of the 2015 Omi International Translation Lab fellowship.
This event is co-sponsored by Human Rights Project, the Translation Initiative and the Written Arts Program
For more information, call 845-758-7506, or e-mail [email protected].
Time: 6:15 pm EST/GMT-5
Location: Olin Humanities, Room 102