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The launch of ‘Mastering Nature in the Medieval Arabic and Latin Worlds. Studies in Heritage and Transfer of Arabic Science in Honour of Charles Burnett' is coming up on Saturday 27 January, 3-6pm at UCL IAS @ucl-ias.bsky.social 💫ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-a… 💫 not to be missed!

Department of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures, University of Washington A Workshop on Azerbaijani Turkish Language and Literature in Iran tinyurl.com/3ze95f4k The Afrassiabi Distinguished Lecture tinyurl.com/yc2jkyua Special thanks to Dr Aria Fani for the invitation.

Exciting news! GlobalLit releases Licit Magic Working Papers 19 'The Birth of Comparative Religion in Persian? Introduction and Partial Translation of the Bayān al-Adyān', an astonishing paper by @kristofszitar #GlobalLit #Persian #Arabic #Literature #Islam #Comparativereligion

“A Novel of Revolutionary Iran” by Rebecca Ruth Gould ⁦Rebecca Ruth Gould (rrgould.bsky.social)⁩ baos.pub/a-novel-of-rev…

Read my latest article open access, Translation as Metonymy: Bijan Elahi’s Persian Variation on Cyrano de Bergerac | Comparative Critical Studies euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.336…

Read our latest article (with Rebecca Ruth Gould (rrgould.bsky.social)) open access: Hyper-exegesis in Persian translations of the Qu'ran: On the Disjointed Letters as Translational Challenges | International Journal of Middle East Studies | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/3VZ4ue7

Proud to see this beautiful poem by Saeb Tabrizi translated by Transmodern and myself in the Best Literary Translations 2024 published by Deep Vellum, selected by guest editor Jane Hirshfield & nominated by Dana Isokawa Dana Isokawa The Margins aaww-nyc.bsky.social bookshop.org/a/8856/9781646…

📣 ANNOUNCING THE 2024 SARAH MAGUIRE PRIZE SHORTLIST! 📣 "House Arrest" by Hazan Alizadeh, translated from Persian by Kayvan Tahmasebian and Rebecca Ruth Gould Full announcement: bit.ly/3VakkAx

Honored to be on this excellent shortlist, with poets from Palestine (#MayaAbuAlHayyat trans. Fady Joudah & #OliviaElias trans. Kareem James Abu-Zeid), Georgia, South Korea & Mexico, alongside our own Hasan Alizadeh tran. w/ Transmodern for Arc Publications). Buy & read them all!

The inaugural issue of Encounters in translation is out now, with a commitment to “open, multilingual, and community-supported translation.” Promising new horizons in the theory and practice of translation to explore. Check the first issue: publications-prairial.fr/encounters-in-…

To submit a paper or proposal for a special issue to Encounters follow these instructions publications-prairial.fr/encounters-in-… M. Cristina Caimotto @Nanvpm 🍉 Elisa Barbero-Valderrama Matt Riemland @antonio_bib Mustafa Riad Joss Moorkens @RiskuHanna @COlallaSoler Şebnem Bahadır Andrea Bergantino Geraldine Chaia Ahd Othman Transmodern

Global Literary Theory is Reborn! A renewed call for engagement & submissions (short form, long form, book reviews, reworkings of academic papers, essays on world literature, working papers & more) from the GlobalLIT team at SOAS (also here: docs.google.com/document/d/1aW…)

We are delighted to share the wonderful contributions to the second edition of our Special issue: "Translational and narrative epistemologies". 🧵 Check ther full issue here: publications-prairial.fr/encounters-in-… Many thanks to all the authors, editors and reviewers! 1/6

Read my latest article open access: From Explication to Order: The Persian Vernacularization of Arabic Rhetoric doi.org/10.1163/245191…

My review is out: Persianate Verse and the Poetics of Eastern Internationalism. Samuel Hodgkin (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2024) | International Journal of Middle East Studies | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/40bmRgm

And now, another review of mine: Aria Fani, Reading across Borders: Afghans, Iranians, and Literary Nationalism | Iranian Studies | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/4h6Vnzh

Thrilled to share my interview with Alton Melvar M Dapanas 🌹🍉 (they/them) for Asymptote Journal, where we discuss Persian poetry and activist translation. Read it here: asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/01/0….

Issue 3/1 of #EncountersinTranslation is out! Featuring articles by Julie Boéri & Mona Baker @monabaker11.bsky.social Eivind Engebretsen Aisha Maniar & Duncan Poupard. As per our multilingual policy long synopses available in many languages inc Turkish Arabic Chinese Korean French Spanish Italian Norwegian etc