Zahia Smail Salhi is Chair of Modern Arabic Studies at the University of Manchester. She served as Judge of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2013, and the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation in 2016. She acted as Co-Director of the Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World
This recording was taken at the final event in the MULOSIGE 2020 -21 Webinar series. Learn more about our corpus of translated Amazigh Literature here. Amazigh Literature in Translation: Launch Event This final event of the MULOSIGE research project showcases the corpus of Moroccan Amazigh oral and written literature translated
Daniela Merolla is Professor in Berber Literature and Art at the INALCO, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (Sorbonne Paris-Cité). She taught and researched African Literatures and Media at Leiden University (NL) until 2015. Her research focuses on African oral literary productions as well as on written literatures and media in African and
Watch Nikitta Adjirakor explore the steadily emerging literary system and network of African language literatures, in this MULOSIGE seminar.
Madhu Krishnan is Professor of African, World and Comparative Literatures at the University of Bristol. She is the author of Writing Spatiality in West Africa: Colonial Legacies in the Anglophone/Francophone Novel (2018), Contingent Canons: African Literature and the Politics of Location (2018), and Contemporary African Literature in English: Global Locations, Postcolonial Identifications (2014). She
Rana Haddad grew up in Latakia in Syria, moved to the UK as a teenager, and read English Literature at Cambridge University. She lived in London and worked as a journalist for the BBC, Channel 4, and other broadcasters. Rana has also published poetry and is currently mostly based in Athens. The Unexpected Love
“Blogging from Egypt: Digital Literature” Teresa Pepe considers how Egyptian blogs can be read as world literature; recognising their literary and political innovations.
Sara Grewal (MacEwan University) discusses how Canadian Sikh hip hop artists “translate” the anti-majority racial politics expressed in Black American hip hop into an appropriation of the genre that captures the unique context of the Canadian Sikh diaspora.
