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The next
ARCE Chicago meeting is Saturday. August 7, 2010 @ 5:00PM in the LaSalle Bank Room of the Oriental Institute.
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ARCE Chicago
Events:
>>ARCE
Chicago
August Meeting:
Date: Saturday August 7, 2010
Time: 5:00 p.m.
Place: The Oriental Institute, LaSalle Bank Room
1155 East 58th Street
Chicago, 60637
Speaker:
Farouk Mustafa
University of Chicago
Title of Talk:
Contemporary Arabic Fiction in Egypt
Egypt has a thriving community of modern fiction writers
who explore the full gamut of social and political
issues through drama, comedy, and parody. Increasingly,
contemporary Egyptian works of fiction are being
translated into English. In this talk, noted translator
Farouk Mustafa (Farouk Abdel Wahab) will discuss trends
in contemporary fiction as well as the challenges that a
translator faces.
About the speaker:
Farouk Mustafa is the Ibn Rushd Professorial Lecturer in
Modern Arabic Language in the Department of Near Eastern
Languages and Civilization at the University of Chicago.
Under the name Farouk Abdel Wahab he is the translator
of a wide variety of Arabic novels including No One
Sleeps in Alexandria, The Lodging House, Love in Exile,
Zayni Barakat and A Certain Woman. His most recent and
highly praised translation was of Alaa Al Aswany’s novel
Chicago.
For further information, call 773-702-1062.
>>ARCE
Chicago Upcoming Events:
September 11: 5:00 Breasted Hall, The Oriental Institute
Otto Schaden: Update on KV 63
(Co-sponsored by the Oriental Institute)
October 2: 5:00 at the Oriental Institute
Emil Homelin, University of Rochester
Medieval Poetry of Cairo
November 3: 7:00 Breasted Hall, The Oriental Institute
Barry Kemp, Cambridge University
Toward a Better Understanding of Amarna: Recent Research
in the City and its Main cemetery
December 4: 5:00 at the Oriental Institute
Holiday party and tour of the exhibit “Visible Speech:
The Origins of Writing in the Ancient Middle East
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Hospitality Volunteers
We normally include a
light reception after all lectures. Typically this is provided
on a volunteer basis from our members.
We have been very
lucky that
Dennis Kelley has been so generous in the past by
donating food for our events. We appreciate their continued
support, although if you can help out by bringing any of the
following items for a meeting please let
Dennis Kelley know, thank you.
- wine
- soda
- coffee
- water
- cookies
- candy
- cheese and
crackers
- chips and dip
- small sandwiches
- fruit
- other finger
foods
- table clothes
- platesnapkins
- cups
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