Gregory Orfalea
Gregory Orfalea has taught writing at the Claremont Colleges and he currently teaches Arab American Literature at Georgetown University in Washington DC. Richard Rodriguez called Orfalea’s 2009 memoir Angeleno Days, "delightful and wise". The author of two acclaimed histories, The Arab Americans: A History and Messengers of the Lost Battalion, his first collection of short stories is soon to be released as The Man Who Guarded the Bomb. He is now at work on a study of the founding of California by Junipero Serra. Orfalea divides his time between Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles.
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06/02/2012At a celebration of literary translation on Monday 6 February at Kings Place, Khaled Mattawa will receive the 2011 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation.
[read more]03/02/2012
The Mosaic Rooms celebrates theartistic and poetic works of the great Syrian poet Adonis with talks and events from 3-8 February and an exhibition of Adonis's collages from 3 February until 30 March. The opening evening this Friday sees Adonis in conversation with Khaled Mattawa who is the winner of the 2011 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for his translation Adonis: Selected Poems.
[read more]16/01/2012
Khaled Mattawa wins the 2011 Saif Ghobash-Banipal Translation Prize for Adonis:Selected Poems
[read more]12/01/2012
Chair of IPAF Judges Georges Tarabichi announces the shortlist authors of the 2012 International Prize for Arabic Fiction.
[read more]09/01/2012
Banipal Book Club's first book for discussion is The Tobacco Keeper by Ali Bader.
[read more]08/01/2012
Ibrahim Aslan, one of Egypt's best-loved authors, has died of heart failure at the age of 77.
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