Fri 14 Jun 2013

The Spring and the Blood in Syria

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A discussion with Elias Khoury (Beirut/NYU)
June 26, 2013  at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Wallotstr. 19, 14193 Berlin

Under the title “The Spring and the Blood in Syria” Elias Khoury will try to analyse the current situation in Syria in relation to the ongoing revolutionary process in the Arab World.  

The discussion will be introduced and chaired by Wolf Lepenies (Former Rector & Permanent Fellow em. Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin) and will take place on Wednesday, June 26, 2013 at 4 pm at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Wallotstr. 19, 14193 Berlin.

Elias Khoury is a novelist, playwright, critic and a prominent public intellectual. He studied history and sociology in Beirut and Paris. In 1976 Khoury, along with the Palestinian poet Mahmud Darwish, published the journal Shu’un filastiniyya (Palestinian Affairs) until 1979. He has been the editor of the cultural supplement of the Lebanese newspaper an-Nahar, and the director of the theater masrah beirut in the nineties. Elias Khoury  has taught at Columbia University, the American University of Beirut, the Lebanese University, and the Lebanese American University, and is 'globally distinguished professor' at New York University for Arabic and Comparative Literature.  During the academic year 2010-11, he has been a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. He is the author of more than 10 novels and literary works which have been translated into several foreign languages. Among his recent novels translated into English are Gate of the Sun (Beirut 1998, tr. by Humphrey Davies 2006; winner of the Prize of Palestine in 1998 and named Le Monde Diplomatique’s Book of the Year in 2002, it was made into a five-hour feature film in 2003 by director Yousry Nasrallah, as well as a play staged in the West Bank city of Ramallah.); Yalo (Beirut 2002, tr. twice by Humphrey Davies and Peter Theroux  2008, best translated Book Award 2009, shortlist); As Though She Were Sleeping (Beirut 2007, tr. by Marilyn Booth 2011).

The discussion with Elias Khoury is part of the scholarly program of Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe (EUME), a research program at the Forum Transregionale Studien, and arranged within the annual theme of EUME on the relation between culture and politics.

Please leave a note via email, if you will be able to attend, until 21.06.2013 (eume(at)trafo-berlin.de).

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