Talk: Stories We Continue to Tell: The Many Returns of the Thousand and One Nights
When: February 7, 2021 6:30‐8pm
Where: Live Zoom Webinar, Registration Required: http://bit.ly/SZBANYUAD.
Who: NYU Abu Dhabi Institute in collaboration with Sheikh Zayed Book Award
In collaboration with New York Abu Dhabi University Institute,Sheikh Zayed BookAward at the Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre invites you to join the Award’s winners of Arab Culture in Other Languages, Philip Kennedy and Richard Van Leeuwen, in conversation with NYUAD Assistant Professor of Literature and Arab Crossroads Studies, Maya Kesrouany.
The Thousand and One Nights has been fueling the imagination and craft of storytellers since the 18th century. This conversation between two winners of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award traces the returns and afterlives of the Nights until today and discusses why these tales continue to inspire and affect the stories of writers from all over the globe.
The live Zoom webinar entitled ‘Stories We Continue To Tell: The Many Returns of The Thousand and One Nights’ will be held on the 7th of February at 6:30PM GST/ 9:30AM EST with simultaneous Arabic Interpretation. Register via http://bit.ly/SZBANYUAD.
Simultaneous Arabic Interpretation will be provided.
* Time: 6:30pm Gulf Standard Time
9:30am Eastern Standard Time
Speakers
Richard van Leeuwen, Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies, University of Amsterdam; Winner of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award for Arabic Culture in Other Languages (2020)
Philip Kennedy, Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Comparative Literature, NYUAD; Winner of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award for Arabic Culture in Other Languages (2019)
In conversation with
Maya Kesrouany, Assistant Professor of Literature and Arab Crossroads Studies, NYUAD
Speakers’ Bios
Philip Kennedy
Prof. Kennedy is a British academic and researcher specialising in Middle Eastern and Islamic studies; winner of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award for Arabic Culture in Other Languages (2019). He holds a PhD in Classic Arabic Poetry and a Masters in Middle East Studies. He is the author of The Wine Song in Classical Arabic Poetry: Abu Nuwas and the Literary Tradition (1997), Recognition in the Arabic Narrative Tradition (2016) and a number of other studies about Arabic Literature. He is Vice Provost for Public programming at the NYUAD Institute and the General Editor of the Library of Arabic Literature.
Maya Kesrouany
Assistant Professor of Literature and Arab Crossroads Studies, NYUAD. Her recent scholarship centers on twentieth- and twenty-first-century cultural production from the Middle East, with a specific interest in the relationship between aesthetics and politics in literary and visual arts and the theory, practice, and impact of translation on 20th century Arab cultural thought.
Over the course of her academic career, Kesrouany has taught courses in Arabic and postcolonial literature, modern British literature and culture, the novel, literary theory in a comparative framework, and Middle Eastern studies.Kesrouany’s current research project – Conversions with No Endings: Aesthetics and Politics in the Arab World – explores visual and literary cultural transformations in Egypt and Lebanon from the 1940s until today.
Richard van Leeuwen
Richard van Leeuwen, Ph.D. (1992) University of Amsterdam, is senior lecturer in Islamic Studies at that university; Winner of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award for Arabic Culture in Other Languages (2020). He has published widely on the history of the Middle East, Arabic literature, and Islam, and is also a translator of Arabic literature. His publications include Notables and Clergy in Mount Lebanon (Brill 1994); Waqfs and Urban Structures (Brill 1999); (2004; The Arabian Nights Encyclopedia, 2 vols. (Santa Barbara 2004; with U. Marzolph); The Thousand and One Nights: space, travel and transformation (2007) and Narratives of Kingship in Eurasian Empires, 1300-1800 (Brill 2017).
