Orientalism, Politics of Publishing Arabic Lit., and Challenges of Arabic Language

Photo by Katrina Weber Ashour: Ammiel Alcalay, Murat
Nemet-Nejat, Sinan Antoon  and Susan Bernofsky

My write up of Queens College's Symposium Celebrating the Literature of the Middle East is on M. Lynx-Qualey's Arabic Literature (in English).  
Among presenters at this event were Sinan Antoon, Elias Khoury, Ammiel Alacalay, Aron Aji, Murat Nemet-Nejat, and so many others.  Each panel left off in middle of conversation, it seemed, as there was so much to be said on each topic.  Panels included: "The Politics of Translation," "The Writer as Translator," and Elias Khoury's final address: "A Writer's Journey."
http://arablit.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/the-process-and-politics-of-translating-arabic-lit-a-symposium-at-queens-college/