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Samuel Shimon at University of Texas at Austin
Iraqi author and editor Samuel Shimon is visiting the University of Texas at Austin to give a lecture and reading
New Arabic Literature
Public Lecture and Reading
by Samuel Shimon
3.00pm Monday 28 February
Texas Union, Eastwood Room
University of Texas at Austin
The lecture will be followed by a reading in Arabic from Samuel Shimon's novel An Iraqi in Paris
Samuel Shimon is the founder-editor of both Banipal magazine and the Arabic literary and
cultural website www.kikah.com. He is the author of An Iraqi in Paris and editor of the anthology of writing by
the 39 authors of the Beirut39 Hay festival project, Beirut39:New
Writing from the Arab World. His talk will discuss the trends of new
Arabic literature, markets, authors and publishers, translations and
festivals.
For more information contact tarek.elariss@austin.utexas.edu
Sponsored by
the Center for Middle Eastern Studies,
the Department of Middle Eastern Studies,
the Arabic Flagship Program,
the Department of English,
and the Department of Comparative Literature
Published Date - 28/02/2011
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