An abbreviated version of The Nights will be coming out in Fall 2021, in Seale’s translation for W. W. Norton. The fuller Nights is currently set for 2023. You can follow the Nights Bot, with which Seale shares fragments of her translation, on Twitter. 

 

You can watch a recording of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2020 The Bookseller Webinar -The global influence of the Arabian Nights, with Richard van Leeuwen, Marina Warner, and Yasmine Seale, on YouTube.

 

You can read Seale’s talk with Veronica Esposito, “Wild Irreverence”: A Conversation about Arabic Translation with Yasmine Seale,  in World Literature Today.

 

At the beginning of the episode Seale reads an excerpt from Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi’s Ta’tir al-anam fi tafsir al-ahlam, which is featured in the DREAMS issue of ArabLit Quarterly, released December 15.


Seale also reads her poem “Conventional Wisdom,” which won the poetry category of the 2020 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize. The Book of Travels by Ḥannā Diyāb -- the Syrian writer who related the Aladdin tale to Antoine Galland -- will be out from the Library of Arabic Literature, in Elias Muhanna’s translation, in May 2021. Seale has written the foreword to the first volume.

An abbreviated version of The Nights will be coming out in Fall 2021, in Seale&rsquo;s translation for W. W. Norton. The fuller Nights is currently set for 2023. You can follow the <a href="https://twitter.com/the_small_hours?lang=en">Nights Bot</a>, with which Seale shares fragments of her translation, on Twitter.&nbsp;
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You can watch a recording of the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZABqQ9jrf-c">Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2020 The Bookseller Webinar -The global influence of the Arabian Nights</a>, with Richard van Leeuwen, Marina Warner, and Yasmine Seale, on YouTube.
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You can read Seale&rsquo;s talk with Veronica Esposito, &ldquo;<a href="https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/interviews/wild-irreverence-conversation-about-arabic-translation-yasmine-seale-veronica">Wild Irreverence&rdquo;: A Conversation about Arabic Translation with Yasmine Seale</a>,&nbsp; in World Literature Today.
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At the beginning of the episode Seale reads an excerpt from Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi&rsquo;s Ta&rsquo;tir al-anam fi tafsir al-ahlam, which is featured in the <a href="https://arablit.org/2020/12/15/release-party-for-winter-2020-arablit-quarterly-dreams/">DREAMS issue of ArabLit Quarterly</a>, released December 15.
 Seale also reads her poem &ldquo;<a href="https://www.wasafiri.org/article/2020-queen-mary-wasafiri-new-writing-prize-winners-announced/">Conventional Wisdom</a>,&rdquo; which won the poetry category of the 2020 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.libraryofarabicliterature.org/books/9781479892303/the-book-of-travels/">The Book of Travels by Ḥannā Diyāb</a> -- the Syrian writer who related the Aladdin tale to Antoine Galland -- will be out from the Library of Arabic Literature, in Elias Muhanna&rsquo;s translation, in May 2021. Seale has written the foreword to the first volume.

BULAQ is a book-centric podcast co-hosted by Ursula Lindsey (in Amman, Jordan) and M Lynx Qualey (in Rabat, Morocco). It focuses on Arabic literature in translation and is named after the first printing press established in Egypt in 1820. Produced by Sowt.

BULAQ is a book-centric podcast co-hosted by Ursula Lindsey (in Amman, Jordan) and M Lynx Qualey (in Rabat, Morocco). It focuses on Arabic literature in translation and is named after the first printing press established in Egypt in 1820. Produced by Sowt.

BULAQ | بولاق

BULAQ is a podcast about contemporary writing from and about the Middle East and North Africa. We talk about books written in Aleppo, Cairo, Marrakech and beyond. We look at the Arab region through the lens of literature, and we look at literature -- what it does, why it matters, how it relates to society and history and politics -- from the point of view of this part of the world.  BULAQ is co-produced by ArabLit and The Arabist and is hosted by Ursula Lindsey and M Lynx Qualey.

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