Festival Event
with FADI AZZAM, DR. GHADA ALATRASH and THAYER HASTINGS
Monday, July 29, 2024, 7:00 - 8:30PM EST
at Akwaaba, NYC
We’re honored to present HUDDUD’S HOUSE (Interlink Books) by acclaimed author FADI AZZAM at Akwaaba on Monday, July 29th, 7PM - 8:30PM EST.
Huddud’s House translator, Dr. Ghada Alatrash, will provide translations and additional insights during the conversation. Thayer Hastings will moderate the discussion.
THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
We will be livestreaming the event for those who are not able to join us in person!
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Kweli Journal is excited to partner with Akwaaba to present this special #KweliLitFest24 festival event.
ARTISTS
FADI AZZAM
Fadi Azzam is a Syrian novelist and writer. He is the author of the highly-acclaimed Sarmada, longlisted for the 2012 International Prize for Arabic Fiction. Huddud’s House, his second novel, was longlisted for the 2018 International Prize for Arabic Fiction. He was the culture and arts correspondent for Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper and his opinion columns have appeared in the New York Times and in newspapers across the Middle East.
DR. GHADA ALATRASH
Dr. Ghada Alatrash is Asst. Professor at the School of Critical and Creative Studies at Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary, Canada. Dr. Alatrash’s pedagogy and research are grounded in anti-orientalist, anti-colonial, anti-racism, and feminist frameworks that interrogate and challenge Western hegemonic narratives through an intersectional, transnational, post-colonial lens. Her current research speaks to Syrian art and creative expression as resistance to dictatorship. She is the translator of Huddud's House by Fadi Azzam.
THAYER HASTINGS
Thayer Hastings is a PhD Candidate in the Anthropology Department at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City with a focus on political anthropology and Middle East Studies. His current dissertation project explores the politics of contemporary Palestinian life in the militarily occupied city of Jerusalem from the convergence of intimacy and bureaucracy.
KEY EVENT INFO:
Reading & Conversation feat. Fadi Azzam with translator, Dr. Ghada Alatrash and Thayer Hastings
A #KweliLitFest24 Festival Event
Date: Monday, July 29th, 7PM - 8:30PM EST
Location: Akwaaba (347 MacDonough St., Brooklyn, NY 11233)
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