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Past Events
Thu 22 June 2017
6.30-8.30pm
Arab British Centre Meeting Room, 1 Gough Square, EC4A 3DE
6.30-8.30pm
Arab British Centre Meeting Room, 1 Gough Square, EC4A 3DE
The Arab British Centre and Banipal
invite you to our second
WELCOME LITERARY SALON
Supporting Refugee Week 2017
We present a diverse evening of
special guests, literature, discussion, poetry, film, books, readings, theatre, performance, and open mic
– looking at the question of how literature is dealing with
the biggest enforced movement of people ever recorded.
Download the invitation here
MORE DETAILS COMING SOON!
ALL WELCOME
This is a free event but reservations are a must as places are limited.
Email info@arabbritishcentre.org.uk to reserve your place
We look forward to seeing you there!
The Welcome Literary Salon is part of Refugee Week – 19-25 June 2017
The theme of the week of events is
Different Pasts, Shared Futures
For more infotmation about Refugee Week go to: refugeeweek.org.uk
An Iraqi in Paris by Samuel Shimon
The Cinderellas of Muscat by Huda Hamed (Banipal Books, 2025)
The Tent Generations
Things I Left Behind by Shada Mustafa, translated by Nancy Roberts
Shadow of the Sun by Taleb Alrefai
Birds of Nabaa, A Mauritanian Tale by Abdallah Uld Mohamadi Bah
The Stone Serpent, Barates of Palmyra’s Elegy for Regina his Beloved by Nouri Al-Jarrah
Mansi A Rare Man in His Own Way by Tayeb Saleh (Banipal Books, 2020)
Tayeb Salih
Goat Mountain by Habib Selmi
Habib Selmi, author of Goat Mountain and 3 times shortlisted for the IPAF
The Mariner by Taleb Alrefai (Banipal Books, 2020)
Taleb Alrefai, author of Shadow of the Sun and The Mariner
Fadhil Al-Azzawi's Beautiful Creatures by Fadhil al-Azzawi (Banipal Books, 2021)
Fadhil al-Azzawi
Poems of Alexandria and New York by Ahmed Morsi (Banipal Books, 2021)
Saïd Khatibi
Amjad Nasser (1955–2019)
Digital Banipal the full archive
Ahmed Morsi, author of Poems of Alexandria and New York
Sarajevo Firewood
The Madness of Despair
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