Taste of Texts
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Languages, literature, translation + teaching any/all of these
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👀 LAL's Spring 2020 books are up on the website! IMPOSTURES (coming May 2020) is a new translation of Maqamat of al-Hariri by Michael Cooperson. Esther Allen, translator of ZAMA, calls it "a wild romp through languages and literatures." libraryofarabicliterature.org/books/97814798… #FridayReads
"You learn as much about classical Arabic literature as you do about English literature...It makes different cultures talk to each other." Thank you Taste of Texts for this thoughtful video review of IMPOSTURES!
Taste of Texts Library of Arabic Literature Kevin Blankinship د.كيڤن Sometimes it does, although Hadil Ghoneim هديل غنيم reminds me we need to be better & more consistent about this! We'll have them all next issue.
Here's the recording of the #MichaelCooperson "The Englishing al-Hariri's Maqamat" event (Sept 7, 2020), featuring #HannahScottDeuchar, Aidan Kaplan, Layla Treuhaft-Ali, and Richard Ali.: nes.princeton.edu/events/near-ea… Thank you all for bringing the #Impostures Library of Arabic Literature to life!
