#  Novelist Shahla Ujayli and Translator Michelle Hartman, on tour with the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **October 11, 2024** 

 01:00PM - 01:00PM EDT 

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 **Barker Center, Room 133**  



 

 



 

##  [RETHINKING TRANSLATION](/rethinking-translation)

##  **SPEAKER:** Shahla Ujayli, Author; Michelle Hartman, McGill University

 The Rethinking Translation seminar, together with the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University, is pleased to host a conversation between Syrian novelist Shahla Ujayli and translator Michelle Hartman, thanks to a tour organized by the International Prize for Arabic Fiction. Ujayli and Herman will read in Arabic and English, followed by a discussion and Q&A from the audience.

###  About the Speakers

 **Shahla Ujayli** is a Syrian writer, born in 1976. She holds a doctorate in Modern Arabic Literature and Cultural Studies from Aleppo University in Syria and teaches Modern Arabic Literature and Aesthetics at the American University in Madaba, Jordan. She is the author of four novels: *The Cat's Eye* (2006), which won the Jordan State Award for Literature 2009; *Persian Carpet* (2012); *A Sky Close to Our House* (2015) which was IPAF-shortlisted in 2016; and has been published in English, and *Summer with the Enemy* (2018). She has also published two short story collections: *The Latticed Window* (2005) and *Bed of the King’s Daughter* (2016), which won the 2017 Al-Multaqa Prize for the Arabic Short Story awarded by the American University in Kuwait. Her books of literary criticism include: *The Syrian Novel: Experimentalism and Theoretical Categories* (2009), *Cultural Particularity in the Arabic Novel* (2011) and *Mirror of Strangeness: Articles on Cultural Criticism* (2006). Shahla Ujayli has been featured in *Banipal* magazine on several occasions including the publication of a short story translated by Ayane Ezaki, *A Dead Hand*, in the Spring 2017 issue. She took part in the IPAF nadwa (writers' workshop) for promising young writers, where she worked on a passage from *A Sky Close to Our House*.

 **Michelle Hartman** is Professor of Arabic Literature at the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University, where she has worked since 2002. She teaches in all areas of Arabic literature and is especially interested in the way in which creative languages are used in literary texts, the connections between the politics of literature and its poetics and literature as resistance. One of her main areas of focus in her research is the politics of translation from Arabic to English, particularly the way in which theory and practice do and do not come together. Her literary and translation research is primarily on women writers from Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine. In addition to her academic research and writing on the Politics of Translation from Arabic to English, Michelle also is a literary translator. She has translated eight novels, a memoir, and a short story collection.

 *Co-sponsored by the [Center for Middle Eastern Studies](https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/).*



 

 



 

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