Translating from the Arabic: Iman Humaydan (author) & Michelle Hartman (translator) in conversation with Luke Leafgren
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The Mahindra Rethinking Translation Seminar presents a conversation with
Iman Humaydan, author, and Michele Hartman, translator, of Songs for Darkness, an epic novel that intertwines a narration focused on four generations of Lebanese women’s lives with the major historical and political events of the twentieth century from the eve of World War I to the 1982 Lebanon War.
Iman Humaydan is a Lebanese novelist and the president of the Lebanese chapter of PEN.
Michelle Hartman is a literary translator and professor of Arabic literature at McGill University.
Luke Leafgren is an Assistant Dean at Harvard College and a translator of several Arabic novels into English.
Event funded by the Mahindra Re-thinking Translation Seminar and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University.
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