events 2010
Tuesday, February 9
Ersi Sotiropoulos
6pm reading
7pm wine & cheese reception
Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts
New York University
1 Washington Place
New York, NY
Thursday, February 11
Ersi Sotiropoulos, Karen Emmerich, & Karen Van Dyck
6:30pm
reading, discussion, & celebration three new Greek translations
Book Culture
536 West 112th Street
(between Broadway and Amsterdam)
New York, New York, 10025
212 865 1588
cosponsored by the Program in Hellenic Studies at Columbia University
Wednesday–Saturday, April 7–10
Associated Writing Programs Conference
2010 Annual Conference & Bookfair
Exhibit Hall A, D14
(with special guest Akashic Books)
Hyatt Regency Denver & Colorado Convention Center
Denver, Colorado
Monday, April 12
Alex Epstein
7pm
John Fowles Center
Dee & Don Henley Reading Room, Leatherby Libraries
1 University Drive
Chapman University
Orange, California
Friday, April 16
Edwidge Danticat, Mitchell Kaplan, & Pam Thompson
panel on reading world literature
University of Miami
Miami, FL
details tba
Friday–Saturday, April 23–24
Juniper Literary Festival book fairFine Arts Center
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01002
Saturday–Sunday, April 24–25
Alex Epstein
Los Angeles Times Book Festival
Los Angeles, California
details tba
April 26–May 2
PEN World Voices
New York, NY
details tba
events 2009
Sunday, November 15
Reading and book launch with Uzma Aslam Khan
3pm
Revolution Books
2626 South King Street
Honolulu, Hawai'i
Sunday, September 13
Brooklyn Book Festival10am–6pm
Brooklyn Borough Hall and Plaza
Brooklyn, New York
Thursday–Sunday, May 28–31
Book Expo AmericaJacob Javits Center
New York, New York
Interlink booth #4952
Saturday, May 30
Rachid El Daif in conversation with Pam ThompsonEl Daif, the acclaimed Lebanese novelist, is the author, most recently, of Learning English
4:30–5:00pm
Downtown Stage
Jacob Javits Center
Wednesday, May 13
Translation workshop with Karen Emmerich:Impossible Things? Poetry in Translation
6:00-8:00pm
Mechanics' Institute Library Meeting Room, 4th Floor
57 Post Street
San Francisco
Tuesday May 12
Karen Emmerich reads from her translations12:30–1:30pm
Center for the Art of Translation
111 Minna Gallery, 2nd Street and Minna Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
Friday–Saturday, April 24–25
Juniper Literary Festival book fairFine Arts Center
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01002
Saturday, March 7
Literature and the “Real” Arab WorldAdania Shibli, Radwa Ashour, and Ahmed El-Fagih
on a panel moderated by Khaled Mattawa
11am–12:30pm
Family Theater
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
2700 F Street NW
Washington, DC 20566
800 444 1324
Friday, March 6
Reception and reading with Adania Shibli and poet Fadhil El Azzawi5–7pm
Arabesque: Arts of the Arab World
Concert Hall Box Tier
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
2700 F Street NW
Washington, DC 20566
800 444 1324
RSVP by email to kcreception@arabculturefund.org
Wednesday–Saturday, February 11–14
Associated Writing Programs ConferenceChicago Hilton
720 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60605
312 922 4400
Interlink Booth #242