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Professor Yasir Suleiman-Malley speaks about the complexities of Arabic tracing his personal journey with the language, from early struggles with grammar to a deep appreciation for its richness. We explore the historical and pedagogical challenges of teaching Arabic, especially given its sacred status connected to the Quranic text and the socio-cultural resistance to modernizing its grammatical teaching methods. The conversation also delves into the dual nature of Arabic, the spoken and the written forms, their impact on education, everyday use, and the broader implications of Arabic as a cultural and identity-defining symbol in the Arab world.  00:00 Introduction 00:05 Professor Suleiman-Malley's Early Relationship with Arabic01:24 Challenges in Teaching Arabic Grammar05:34 Cultural and Historical Context of Arabic Pedagogy11:30 Arabic as a Symbol of Identity and Conflict15:43 The Health of the Arabic Language23:50 Decolonization and Language29:45 Reviving and Managing Languages38:26 The Role of Language in Identity39:19 Language as a Membership Card41:04 Diversity and Unity in the Arab World42:50 Cultural Arabness vs Racial Arabness45:39 Historical Perspectives on Arab Identity54:01 The Concept of Diglossia01:03:08 Challenges of Written vs Spoken Arabic01:07:11 The Future of Arabic Language and Identity01:13:30 Final Thoughts Professor Yasir Suleiman-Malley is Chair of the Panel of Judges, British-Kuwaiti Friendship Society Book Prize in Middle Eastern Studies. He serves as Trustee on the Boards of Arab-British Chamber Charitable Foundation, International Prize for Arab Fiction (in association with the Man-Booker Prize), Banipal Trust for Arab Literature and is trustee of the Gulf Research Centre-Cambridge. He is also Chair of the Advisory Board of the Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World, Chair of the Centre for the Study of the International Relations of the Middle East and North Africa (CIRMENA), Board Member of the Islamic Manuscript Association, Member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for Evaluation and Research in Muslim Education, Institute of Education, Member of the Advisory Board of The Doha Institute, Qatar and Member of the Advisory Board of Our Shared Future. He is a member of the editorial boards of a number of journals and book series. He is also Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, formerly Head of the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, and Founding Director of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies. Hosted by Mikey MuhannaConnect directly with Mikey Muhanna

Thanks to generous support from Nan Laird, who was awarded the 2021 International Prize in Statistics in recognition of her transformative work, the ASA launched the Telling Our Stories video project to raise awareness of the profound impact of statistics and inspire a greater appreciation for its contribution to advancing science and society. The latest installment in the series highlights former ASA President and retired US Census Director Rob Santos, who returns to “Practical Significance” to reflect on his storytelling journey. Cohosts Donna LaLonde and Ron Wasserstein also welcome Anna Soldatova ... The post Practical Significance | Episode 53: Beyond the Frame: Stories from the Telling Our Stories Video Project first appeared on Amstat News.

Isabelle is the Head of the Startup Battlefield Program at TechCrunch, where she leads the sourcing and selection of 200 game-changing, early-stage companies each year to showcase at TechCrunch Disrupt. Before this, she managed a global startup accelerator, helping hundreds of startups from countries like Japan, South Korea, Italy, and Spain expand to the U.S. Isabelle is passionate about supporting women founders and was recognized by the World Trade Organization for launching an accelerator program that brought women entrepreneurs from Spain to the U.S., winning the International Prize for Gender Equality in Trade. In this episode, you'll hear about: Behind the scenes with Isabelle Johannessen, head of TechCrunch Startup Battlefield, exploring the selection of 200 innovative startups for TechCrunch Disrupt. Insights into the rigorous selection process and the global reach of the program, emphasizing diversity with nearly 50% international founders. The evolution of Startup Battlefield from Battlefield 20 to featuring 200 startups, showcasing groundbreaking innovations. The importance of perfecting pitch presentations, leveraging AI, and engaging with top-tier VC judges. Tips for startup applications, focusing on progress towards KPIs, realistic business models, and market readiness. Follow and Review: We'd love for you to follow us if you haven't yet. Click that purple '+' in the top right corner of your Apple Podcasts app. We'd love it even more if you could drop a review or 5-star rating over on Apple Podcasts. Simply select “Ratings and Reviews” and “Write a Review” then a quick line with your favorite part of the episode. It only takes a second and it helps spread the word about the podcast. Supporting Resources: Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/isabelle-johannessen/ Website - https://techcrunch.com/apply Alcorn Immigration Law: Subscribe to the monthly Alcorn newsletter Sophie Alcorn Podcast: Episode 16: E-2 Visa for Founders and Employees Episode 19: Australian Visas Including E-3 Episode 20: TN Visas and Status for Canadian and Mexican Citizens Immigration Options for Talent, Investors, and Founders Immigration Law for Tech Startups eBook

Shrule man Trevor Hyland, who currently lives in Switzerland, will represent Ireland at the first ever Mullet Swiss Cup.

Transition Year students from Coláiste an Chroí Naofa here in Cork have won an international prize with their their First Aid community project, called ‘Aid Avengers.

Majalla 28 is a literary magazine out of Gaza co-producing an issue with ArabLit. We talk about the work by co-editors Mahmoud al-Shaer and Mohamed al-Zaqzouq and read excerpts from that issue. After that, we talk about a particular kind of Palestinian literature – by writers serving life sentences. Find out more about the Gaza issue at arablit.orgMore writing by Heba Al-Agha, translated by Julia Choucair Vizoso, is also available at arablit.orgYou can read more about the late author Walid Daqqa, who died in an Israeli prison, at JadaliyyaPalestinian prisoner Nasser Abu Srour's The Wall, translated by Luke Leafgren, is out now from Other PressA Mask, the Colour of the Sky, by Palestinian writer Basim Khandaqji, won this year's International Prize for Arabic Fiction. Khandaqji is serving three consecutive life sentences; his novel is forthcoming in English translation from Europa Editions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

*) Israel kills over a dozen Palestinians in Rafah — medics Israeli air strikes have targeted three houses in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, killing at least 13 people and wounding numerous others, according to medics. Additionally, Israeli planes struck two houses in Gaza City in the north of the enclave, which health officials say resulted in several casualties. These strikes occurred amid ongoing Israeli violence and tension, with over a million people in Rafah seeking shelter from previous bombardments. *) World Central Kitchen to resume Gaza ops after Israel killings World Central Kitchen has resumed operations in Gaza after seven of its aid workers were killed in an Israeli strike earlier this month. In a statement, the charity's chief executive officer emphasised the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza and their commitment to providing food assistance with renewed energy and focus. The organisation plans to deliver food to as many Palestinians as possible, including in the northern region, by utilising various transport methods: land, air, or sea routes. *) Heat wave kills two Palestinian children in Gaza The UN refugee agency UNRWA has reported that at least two Palestinian children have lost their lives due to a severe heat wave in Gaza. UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini expressed deep concern, highlighting the challenges faced by Palestinians in Gaza: death, hunger, disease, displacement, and now extreme heat conditions. This situation compounds the ongoing difficulties caused by a deadly Israeli offensive that killed more than 34,400 people and injured thousands. *) Ukraine signals worsening front amidst Russia's new gains Ukraine's army leader has acknowledged a deteriorating situation on the battlefield as Russian forces seized another village in eastern Ukraine. In a Facebook post, Oleksandr Syrsky admitted that Ukrainian troops had retreated westwards to establish new defensive lines along the front near Donetsk. He noted that Russia holds a significant advantage in manpower and ammunition, allowing them to make advances despite heavy fighting. *) Palestinian writer wins Arabic Fiction Prize after 20 years in Israeli jail Palestinian writer Basim Khandaqji, who was imprisoned in Israel 20 years ago, has been awarded the prestigious 2024 International Prize for Arabic Fiction. He won for his novel "A Mask, the Colour of the Sky” at a ceremony held in Abu Dhabi. Khandaqji was born in Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank in 1983 and began writing short stories until his arrest at the age of 21.

Ukraine's commander-in-chief says his troops have fallen back to new positions west of three villages where Russia has concentrated significant forces. Also: Divisions emerge in the Israeli government with ministers at odds about a potential ceasefire and hostage release deal, and we hear who has won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction.

Елена Янушевская - поэт, публицист, эссеист, художественный критик, кандидат философских наук. Окончила факультет журналистики МГУ имени М.В. Ломоносова, в 2007 году на философском факультете МГУ защитила кандидатскую диссертацию "Ценностный конфликт как источник творчества', там же с 2007 по 2022 год работала преподавателем. В 2020 году эссе Елены "Век без поэтов" из одноименной книги философской прозы вошло в лонг-лист Международной премии интеллектуальной литературы имени Александра Зиновьева. Елена - автор нескольких поэтических книг: "Порядок слов" (2023), "Свет остается", "Уцелеют одни поцелуи" (2024). Сборник лирической поэзии "От имени голубянки" вошёл в лонг-лист Международной литературной премии имени Фазиля Искандера. Елена - финалист премии "Я в мире боец" имени В.Г. Белинского в номинации "Театральная критика". Yelena Yanushevskaya - poet, publicist, essayist, art critic, candidate of philosophical sciences. Graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov, in 2007 she defended her thesis “Value Conflict as a Source of Creativity” at the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University, where she worked as a teacher from 2007 to 2022. In 2020, Yelena's essay “A Century Without Poets” from the book of philosophical prose of the same name was included in the long list International Prize for Intellectual Literature named after Alexander Zinoviev. Yelena is the author of several poetry books: "The Order of Words" (2023), "The Light Remains", "Only Kisses Will Survive" (2024). The collection of lyrical poetry "On behalf of the Blueberry" was included in the long-running sheet of the Fazil Iskander International Literary Prize. Yelena is a finalist of the “I am a fighter in the world” award named after V. G. Belinsky in the category “Theater Criticism”. FIND YELENA ON SOCIAL MEDIA VKontakte | Facebook | Pinterest ================================SUPPORT & CONNECT:Support on Patreon: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/denofrich⁠Twitter: ⁠https://twitter.com/denofrich⁠Facebook: ⁠https://www.facebook.com/mark.develman/⁠YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/denofrich⁠Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/den_of_rich/⁠Hashtag: #denofrich© Copyright 2024 Den of Rich. All rights reserved.

In the time it takes to listen to this short story, you could boil dozens of eggs...but would they be PERFECT?  Written & Narrated by Xavier Combe-Sound Design by Jim Hall In other Breaking News! Muffy Drake is honored to announce that our short film GAMES PEOPLE PLAY is making its European Premiere in London on March 16th at the Crystal Palace International Film Festival. GPP was first heard on our podcast and now is a Finalist at the festival and will compete to take home the International Prize.  Check it out here:https://cpiff.co.uk/animation/ And, we just had the World Premiere at the DC Independent Film Forum in Washington, DC. So happy to be in attendance at the 25th Anniversary of this cutting edge event. In our block of animation was an Academy Award winner! How cool is that to share the screen with OSCAR caliber work...   Check it out here:https://dciff-indie.org  

This week on the podcast is part two of our interview with International prize-winning violinist Ada Witczyk.   She's a dual citizen of Poland and Britain, and is the recipient of numerous awards such as the Henry Wood Award, the Star Award by the Countess of Munster Musical Trust, and the Margot MacGibbon Award.  As both a modern and baroque violinist, Ada has performed at many of the UK's most prestigious venues and festivals including Buckingham Palace, Royal Festival Hall, the Barbican and Royal Albert Hall. Ada has performed with renowned ensembles such as the Gabrieli Consort, The English Concert, and The Academy of Ancient Music. Ada gives us a sneak peek into her fascinating world of music and business. Ada, a dual citizen of Poland and Britain, isn't just an ordinary violinist but an International Prize-winner who's now on a mission to promote baroque violin compositions. From booking concerts and negotiating contracts to managing logistics, Ada shines the spotlight on the challenging yet rewarding path of arts entrepreneurship.Ada shares how she converted the hurdles on her path into stepping stones towards success. Ada's advice to budding artists and entrepreneurs alike is invaluable, highlighting the importance of real-life exposure and learning from professionals. She also gives us a sneak peek into her upcoming album featuring five diverse artists and her intriguing film recording project. So, come, join us in this captivating journey and get inspired by Ada's passion and resilience.https://www.volkweinsmusic.com/

Said Khatibi's detective novel نهاية الصحراء (End of the Sahara) is set in a remote desert city in Algeria in the Fall of 1988, when the country's October Riots are about to break out place. The book is one of the winners of this year's Sheikh Zayed Book Award. Khatibi explained how his writing is also a way of exploring larger historical crimes. Show Notes:This episode is produced in collaboration with the Sheikh Zayed Book Award.The Sheikh Zayed Book Award is one of the Arab world's most prestigious literary prizes, showcasing the stimulating and ambitious work of writers, translators, researchers, academics and publishers advancing Arab literature and culture around the globe.Today's guest, Said Khatibi, was awarded the Sheikh Zayed Book Award in 2023 in the category of Young Author, for his novel نهاية الصحراء, or “The End of the Sahara.” Khatibi is a writer and journalist who is based in Ljublana, Slovenia.Khatibi's 2018 novel Sarajevo Firewood was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2020, and he won the Katara Prize for his 2016 novel Forty Years Waiting for Isabel. His Sarajevo Firewood was translated by Paul Starkey and is available from Banipal Books. Edith Maud Hull's 1919 novel The Sheik was adapted into a 1921 film of the same name starring Rudoph Valentino.The Sheikh Zayed Book Award Translation Grant is open all year round, with funding available for fiction titles that have won or been shortlisted for an award. Publishers outside the Arab world are eligible to apply - find out more on the Sheikh Zayed Book Award website at: zayedaward.ae Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SynopsisToday we note the birthday of a remarkable composer, conductor and virtuoso violinist: Eugéne Ysaÿe, born in Liége, Belgium, on today's date in 1858. After studies with two famous violin composers of his day, Henyrk Wieniawski of Poland and his Belgian compatriot, Henri Vieuxtemps, Ysaÿe soon was touring Europe and Russia as a star performer himself.In 1886, when the 28-year old Ysaÿe married, the great Belgian composer Cesar Franck presented the young couple with a Violin Sonata as a wedding present. That same year, Ysaÿe founded a famous string quartet, and in 1893 it was the Ysaÿe Quartet that gave the premiere performance of Claude Debussy's String Quartet, a work its composer dedicated to the ensemble in admiration.In 1918, Ysaye made his American debut as a conductor with the Cincinnati Symphony, and made such a great impression there that he remained as music director of the Cincinnati Symphony from 1918 to 1922.As a composer, Ysaye wrote eight concertos and a famous set of six solo sonatas for the violin. He died at the age of 72, in 1931, and in 1937, Queen Elizabeth of Belgium inaugurated the annual Eugene Ysaÿe International Prize for promising young violinists.Music Played in Today's ProgramCesar Franck (1822 - 1890) Violin Sonata in A Itzhak Perlman, violin; Martha Argerich, piano EMI 56815Eugène Ysaÿe (1858 - 1931) Chant d'hiver Aaron Rosand, violin; Radio Luxembourg Orchestra; Louis de Froment, cond. Vox Box 5102

Mara Faye Lethem has received numerous international awards for her translations of contemporary Catalan authors, including the inaugural 2022 Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award for Max Besora's The Adventures and Misadventures of Joan Orpí and the 2022 Joan Baptiste Cendrós International Prize for her contributions to Catalan literature. Her translation of Irene Solà's When I Sing, Mountains Dance was shortlisted for the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Barrios Book in Translation Prize, and is currently longlisted for the 2023 Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize. In addition to many novels, she has translated shorter works that have appeared in The Guardian, Best American Non-Required Reading 2010, Granta, The Paris Review, Tin House, A Public Space, McSweeney's and more. She's also the author of the novel, A Person's A Person, No Matter How Small. In this conversation, she discusses with host Tanya Shaffer how became a literary translator, the different ways people approach the task, the particular challenges of the translator's job and the lessons they hold for all creative endeavors.

Mara Faye Lethem has received numerous international awards for her translations of contemporary Catalan authors, including the inaugural 2022 Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award for Max Besora's The Adventures and Misadventures of Joan Orpí and the 2022 Joan Baptiste Cendrós International Prize for her contributions to Catalan literature. Her translation of Irene Solà's When I Sing, Mountains Dance was shortlisted for the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Barrios Book in Translation Prize, and is currently longlisted for the 2023 Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize. In addition to many novels, she has translated shorter works that have appeared in The Guardian , Best American Non-Required Reading 2010, Granta, The Paris Review, Tin House, A Public Space, McSweeney's and more. She's also the author of the novel, A Person's A Person, No Matter How Small. In this conversation, she discusses with Tanya how became a literary translator, the different ways people approach the task, the particular challenges of the translator's job and the lessons they hold for all creative endeavors.

The International Prize in Statistics is one of the most prestigious prizes in the field. Awarded every two years at the ISI World Statistics Congress, it's designed to recognize a single statistician or a team of statisticians for a significant body of work. This year's winner is C.R. Rao, professor emeritus at Pennsylvania State University and Research Professor at the University at Buffalo. Rao's created and been honored for a number of contributions to the statistical world in his over 75-year career. That's the focus of this episode of Stats and Stories, with our guests Sreenivas Rao Jammalamadaka and Krishna Kumar. Jammalamadaka is a distinguished professor in U.C. Santa Barbara's Department of Statistics and Applied Probability. Kumar is a management consultant in business analytics and consulting economist. The two wrote letters supporting C.R. Rao's nomination for the International Prize in Statistics.

In dieser Folge spricht Juli Zeh mit dem Juristen, Lektor und Autor Georg M. Oswald über sein Buch “In unseren Kreisen”. Indem Familienroman geht es um den Umgang mit einer unverhofften Erbschaft.  Sein erfolgreichster Roman "Alles was zählt", wurde mit dem International Prize ausgezeichnet und in zehn Sprachen übersetzt. Sein Thriller “Unter Feinden” wurde vom ZDF und arte verfilmt und von der Kritik als “brillianter Krimi” gefeiert.  Juli Zeh sagt über “In unseren Kreisen”: “Georg Oswald benutzt literarische Präzisionswerkzeuge, um die Merkmale und Unterschiede zwischen den Schichten fein herauszuarbeiten. Er zeigt auf amüsante und vor allem durch wiedererkennbare Weise, dass sich ein Wechsel zwischen gesellschaftlichen Schichten auch heutzutage nur mit erheblichem sozialen Getöse vollziehen lässt.”

In dieser Folge spricht Juli Zeh mit dem Juristen, Lektor und Autor Georg M. Oswald über sein Buch “In unseren Kreisen”. Indem Familienroman geht es um den Umgang mit einer unverhofften Erbschaft. Sein erfolgreichster Roman "Alles was zählt", wurde mit dem International Prize ausgezeichnet und in zehn Sprachen übersetzt. Sein Thriller “Unter Feinden” wurde vom ZDF und arte verfilmt und von der Kritik als “brillianter Krimi” gefeiert. Juli Zeh sagt über “In unseren Kreisen”: “Georg Oswald benutzt literarische Präzisionswerkzeuge, um die Merkmale und Unterschiede zwischen den Schichten fein herauszuarbeiten. Er zeigt auf amüsante und vor allem durch wiedererkennbare Weise, dass sich ein Wechsel zwischen gesellschaftlichen Schichten auch heutzutage nur mit erheblichem sozialen Getöse vollziehen lässt.”  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In dieser Folge spricht Juli Zeh mit dem Juristen, Lektor und Autor Georg M. Oswald über sein Buch “In unseren Kreisen”. Indem Familienroman geht es um den Umgang mit einer unverhofften Erbschaft. Sein erfolgreichster Roman "Alles was zählt", wurde mit dem International Prize ausgezeichnet und in zehn Sprachen übersetzt. Sein Thriller “Unter Feinden” wurde vom ZDF und arte verfilmt und von der Kritik als “brillianter Krimi” gefeiert. Juli Zeh sagt über “In unseren Kreisen”: “Georg Oswald benutzt literarische Präzisionswerkzeuge, um die Merkmale und Unterschiede zwischen den Schichten fein herauszuarbeiten. Er zeigt auf amüsante und vor allem durch wiedererkennbare Weise, dass sich ein Wechsel zwischen gesellschaftlichen Schichten auch heutzutage nur mit erheblichem sozialen Getöse vollziehen lässt.” Die aktuellen Folgen finden Sie hier. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's literary prize season! When the Sawiris Cultural Awards were announced at the start of 2023, novelist Shady Lewis Botros turned his novel award down, launching a storm of criticism, defense, and discussion. Is it bad manners or good politics to turn down a prize? How do different prizes affect the literary landscape? How is the 2023 prize season shaping up? Show Notes:  Mada Masr published “A conversation with Shady Lewis Botros on the genealogy of literary refusal” The International Prize for Arabic Fiction recently announced their 2023 longlist, with a historically high number of women writers (half). Also in Jan 2023, Banipal Prize judges announced that two novels had won their 2022 prize. By coincidence, we did a joint episode on those two novels. PEN America recently announced their lit-prize longlists. Iman Mersal's The Threshold, translated by Robyn Creswell, made the poetry-in-translation longlist. In December 2022, Fatima Qandil's Empty Cages won the Naguib Mahfouz medal, and she said it was the first time she'd won a prize.

Will NIDA get rid of the word "Abuse" and go from National Institute on Drug Abuse to National Institute on Drugs and Addiction? Should people get a prescription to buy a vape pen? What is the science on label for marijuana products? Dr. Nora Volkow, director of NIDA shares her hopes for 2023 and discusses the science behind drug addiction. Nora D. Volkow, M.D., is Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) at the National Institutes of Health. NIDA is the world's largest funder of research on the health aspects of drug use and addiction. Dr. Volkow's work has been instrumental in demonstrating that drug addiction is a brain disorder. As a research psychiatrist, Dr. Volkow pioneered the use of brain imaging to investigate how substance use affects brain functions. In particular, her studies have documented that changes in the dopamine system affect the functions of frontal brain regions involved with reward and self-control in addiction. She has also made important contributions to the neurobiology of obesity, ADHD, and aging. Dr. Volkow was born in Mexico and earned her medical degree from the National University of Mexico in Mexico City, where she received the Robins Award for best medical student of her generation. Her psychiatric residency was at New York University, where she earned a Laughlin Fellowship from The American College of Psychiatrists as one of 10 outstanding psychiatric residents in the United States. Much of her professional career was spent at the Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, where she held several leadership positions including Director of Nuclear Medicine, Chairman of the Medical Department, and Associate Director for Life Sciences. Dr. Volkow was also a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Associate Dean of the Medical School at The State University of New York at Stony Brook. Dr. Volkow has published more than 800 peer-reviewed articles, written more than 100 book chapters, manuscripts and articles, co-edited "Neuroscience in the 21st Century" and edited four books on brain imaging for mental and addictive disorders. She received a Nathan Davis Award for Outstanding Government Service, was a Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal (Sammies) finalist and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Association of American Physicians. Dr. Volkow received the International Prize from the French Institute of Health and Medical Research for her pioneering work in brain imaging and addiction science; was awarded the Carnegie Prize in Mind and Brain Sciences from Carnegie Mellon University; and was inducted into the Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD) Hall of Fame. She was named one of Time magazine's "Top 100 People Who Shape Our World"; one of "20 People to Watch" by Newsweek magazine; Washingtonian magazine's "100 Most Powerful Women"; "Innovator of the Year" by U.S. News & World Report; and one of "34 Leaders Who Are Changing Health Care" by Fortune magazine.

We're back to talk about books we read over the summer and books we're looking forward to this fall. Including poetry from Iman Mersal, Hadiya Hussein's novel about looking for a lover disappeared in Saddam's Iraq, and Mohamed Alnaas' novel about the pressure to be a certain type of Libyan man.  Show Notes:Iman Mersal's The Threshold, trans. Robyn Creswell, is a selection from four of her poetry collections, forthcoming from McMillan. Hadiya Hussein's Waiting For The Past, trans. Barbara Romaine, is forthcoming from Syracuse Press. Bread on Uncle Milad's Table, by Mohamed Alnaas, won the 2022 International Prize for Arabic Fiction.  

A conversation with David Corbin is truly like none other. His insights and analysis of every situation are truly unique; any opportunity to hear him is one not to be missed. During this episode I benefitted from a real time assessment of my own frustrations as a consultant in the nursing home sector, I know his analysis, insight and feedback will be valuable for every listener no matter their background or area of business. David is like a beacon of light for entrepreneurs. His fundamental concept about facing the issues in order to correct course are integral to his concept of illuminating the negative in order to reach entrepreneurial goals is the guiding principle in his book: Illuminate: Harnessing the Power of Negative Thinking. Otherwise, you may be embarking on what could be considered Brand Slaughter. The prevailing thinking in business is not to go looking for problems where there aren't any that seem readily apparent. But it would be naive to think that there aren't always areas that can be improved upon. Without facing and illuminating the negative, it could be considered akin to an ostrich mentality, digging your head in the sand hoping that whatever is happening will soon pass. Corbin is a consummate innovator and inventor who applies provocative thinking to his unique approach to the entrepreneurial experience. His ideas are outside the mainstream of traditional thinking having a positive attitude and having faith against all odds. You may ask, why highlight this principle on SeniorsSTRAIGHTTalk? I think we can all benefit from applying the principle of Illumination to our complicated lives and relationships both personally and professionally.

A conversation with David Corbin is truly like none other. His insights and analysis of every situation are truly unique; any opportunity to hear him is one not to be missed. During this episode I benefitted from a real time assessment of my own frustrations as a consultant in the nursing home sector, I know his analysis, insight and feedback will be valuable for every listener no matter their background or area of business. David is like a beacon of light for entrepreneurs. His fundamental concept about facing the issues in order to correct course are integral to his concept of illuminating the negative in order to reach entrepreneurial goals is the guiding principle in his book: Illuminate: Harnessing the Power of Negative Thinking. Otherwise, you may be embarking on what could be considered Brand Slaughter. The prevailing thinking in business is not to go looking for problems where there aren't any that seem readily apparent. But it would be naive to think that there aren't always areas that can be improved upon. Without facing and illuminating the negative, it could be considered akin to an ostrich mentality, digging your head in the sand hoping that whatever is happening will soon pass. Corbin is a consummate innovator and inventor who applies provocative thinking to his unique approach to the entrepreneurial experience. His ideas are outside the mainstream of traditional thinking having a positive attitude and having faith against all odds. You may ask, why highlight this principle on SeniorsSTRAIGHTTalk? I think we can all benefit from applying the principle of Illumination to our complicated lives and relationships both personally and professionally.

Translator Alexander E. Elinson joins us to discuss Yassin Adnan's Hot Maroc, a sprawling satire of contemporary Morocco. The novel, set in Marrakesh and online, follows the story of Rahhal Laouina, aka “The Squirrel,” who finds his voice as an anonymous internet troll – and then has it co-opted by the country's security apparatus. While it paints a bleak picture of the possibilities of political dialogue, journalism, and self-expression, the novel itself is testament to literature's ability to chart new imaginative territory. Show Notes Hot Maroc is available from Syracuse University Press in Alex Elinson's translation You can read an excerpt of the novel at Asymptote. Aida Alami contextualizes the novel at Middle East Eye. Adnan talks about the inspiration for the novel in an interview with the International Prize for Arabic Fiction

Michel Moushabeck talked about his work in writing, editing, and publishing.Michel S. Moushabeck is a writer, editor, translator, publisher, and musician of Palestinian descent. He is the founder of Interlink Publishing, a 35-year-old, Massachusetts-based independent publishing house specializing in fiction-in-translation, history and current affairs, illustrated children's books, and award-winning international cookbooks. He is the author of several books including, Kilimanjaro: A Photographic Journey to the Roof of Africa. Most recently, he co-edited the winter issue of the Massachusetts Review focusing on Mediterranean literature and contributed a piece to Being Palestinian: Personal Reflections on Palestinian Identity in the Diaspora (Edinburgh University Press). He is the recipient of NYU's Founder's Day Award for outstanding scholarship, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee's Alex Odeh Award and The Palestinian Heritage Foundation Achievement Award. He serves on the board of directors of Media Education Foundation and on the board of trustees of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF).Created and hosted by Mikey Muhanna, afikra Edited by: Ramzi RammanTheme music by: Tarek Yamani https://www.instagram.com/tarek_yamani/About the afikra Conversations:Our long-form interview series features academics, arts, ‎and media experts who are helping document and/or shape the history and culture of the Arab world through their ‎work. Our hope is that by having the guest share their expertise and story, the community still walks away with newfound curiosity - and maybe some good recommendations about new nerdy rabbit holes to dive into headfirst. ‎Following the interview, there is a moderated town-hall-style Q&A with questions coming from the live virtual audience ‎on Zoom.‎ Join the live audience: https://www.afikra.com/rsvp   FollowYoutube - Instagram (@afikra_) - Facebook - Twitter Support www.afikra.com/supportAbout afikra:‎afikra is a movement to convert passive interest in the Arab world to active intellectual curiosity. We aim to collectively reframe the dominant narrative of the region by exploring the histories and cultures of the region- past, present, and future - through conversations driven by curiosity. Read more about us on  afikra.com

Youssef Rakha talked about his writing on post-Muslim perspectives in Arabic and Egyptian literature.Youssef Rakha is a novelist, poet, essayist and journalist who writes in both Arabic and English. His interests include Arab porn and the possibility of a post-Muslim perspective. His first two novels The Book of the Sultan's Seal and The Crocodiles appeared in English in early 2015. Frequently anthologized and translated into many languages, he has written widely on Arabic literature and Egyptian history. Youssef's 2006 photo travelogue Beirut Shi Mahal was nominated for the Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage. He was among the 39 best Arab writers under 40 selected for the Hay Festival Beirut39 Festival in 2010. His first novel, The Book of the Sultan's Seal, won the 2015 Banipal Seif Ghobash Prize for Paul Starkey's translation, and his third, Paulo, was on the long list of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2017 and won the 2017 Sawiris Award.Created by Mikey Muhanna, afikra Hosted by Malek RasamnyEdited by: Ramzi RammanTheme music by: Tarek Yamani https://www.instagram.com/tarek_yamani/About the afikra Conversations:Our long-form interview series features academics, arts, ‎and media experts who are helping document and/or shape the history and culture of the Arab world through their ‎work. Our hope is that by having the guest share their expertise and story, the community still walks away with newfound curiosity - and maybe some good recommendations about new nerdy rabbit holes to dive into headfirst. ‎Following the interview, there is a moderated town-hall-style Q&A with questions coming from the live virtual audience ‎on Zoom.‎ Join the live audience: https://www.afikra.com/rsvp   FollowYoutube - Instagram (@afikra_) - Facebook - Twitter Support www.afikra.com/supportAbout afikra:‎afikra is a movement to convert passive interest in the Arab world to active intellectual curiosity. We aim to collectively reframe the dominant narrative of the region by exploring the histories and cultures of the region- past, present, and future - through conversations driven by curiosity. Read more about us on  afikra.com

Map of Ellis Act Evictions in San Francisco, 1994-2021 | Map created by the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project On today's show: 0:18 – The San Mateo County Superior Court was recently sued for imposing a $300 civil assessment automatically every time an individual misses a payment or court deadline in their traffic infraction case. Joining us to discuss are Zal Shroff, Senior Racial Justice Attorney at the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the SF Bay Area (@lccrsf), a representing attorney on the case and Manuel Galindo, an organizer with the Debt Collective (@StrikeDebt), which is one of the plaintiffs. 0:33 – The Oakland Unified School District's pending decision to close or merge 19 schools in order to overcome a budget shortfall has galvanized a week of action among students, teachers and parents across the city. We continue our coverage with Moses Omolade, Westlake Middle School administrator and hunger striker and Arleita Bailey, a student at Westlake Middle School. 1:08 – Assemblymember Alex Lee (@alex_lee), representing the 25th Assembly District in San Jose, joins us to detail the death of AB 854, the Ellis Act reform bill that he authored. 1:20 – We continue our discussion with Shanti Singh, Communications and Legislative Director for Tenants Together (@TenantsTogether). 1:33 – Andrew Knoll, Fisher Professor of Natural History at Harvard, winner of prestigious International Prize for Biology and the Crafoord Prize in Geosciences joins us to discuss his new book, A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters. The post San Mateo court sued for imposing de facto tax on late traffic tickets; More on the week of action in Oakland; Plus Ellis Act reform bill dead and buried appeared first on KPFA.

Listen to Dr. Nora Volkow’s discussion with Dr. Roneet Lev on the gold standard for addiction, substance use disorder treatment, innovations in drug treatment, naloxone, emergency treatment, stigma, decriminalization, marijuana, and more.  This podcast includes Dr. Nora Volkow  keynote presentation at the Western Regional Opioid & Stimulant Summit of November 2021. Nora D. Volkow, M.D., is Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) at the National Institutes of Health. NIDA is the world's largest funder of research on the health aspects of drug use and addiction. Dr. Volkow’s work has been instrumental in demonstrating that drug addiction is a brain disorder. As a research psychiatrist, Dr. Volkow pioneered the use of brain imaging to investigate how substance use affects brain functions. In particular, her studies have documented that changes in the dopamine system affect the functions of frontal brain regions involved with reward and self-control in addiction. She has also made important contributions to the neurobiology of obesity, ADHD, and aging. Dr. Volkow was born in Mexico and earned her medical degree from the National University of Mexico in Mexico City, where she received the Robins Award for best medical student of her generation. Her psychiatric residency was at New York University, where she earned a Laughlin Fellowship from The American College of Psychiatrists as one of 10 outstanding psychiatric residents in the United States. Much of her professional career was spent at the Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, where she held several leadership positions including Director of Nuclear Medicine, Chairman of the Medical Department, and Associate Director for Life Sciences. Dr. Volkow was also a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Associate Dean of the Medical School at The State University of New York at Stony Brook. Dr. Volkow has published more than 800 peer-reviewed articles, written more than 100 book chapters, manuscripts and articles, co-edited “Neuroscience in the 21st Century” and edited four books on brain imaging for mental and addictive disorders. She received a Nathan Davis Award for Outstanding Government Service, was a Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal (Sammies) finalist and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Association of American Physicians. Dr. Volkow received the International Prize from the French Institute of Health and Medical Research for her pioneering work in brain imaging and addiction science; was awarded the Carnegie Prize in Mind and Brain Sciences from Carnegie Mellon University; and was inducted into the Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD) Hall of Fame. She was named one of Time magazine’s “Top 100 People Who Shape Our World”; one of “20 People to Watch” by Newsweek magazine; Washingtonian magazine's “100 Most Powerful Women”; “Innovator of the Year” by U.S. News & World Report; and one of “34 Leaders Who Are Changing Health Care” by Fortune magazine.

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Randy discusses tonight's presentation for the EdisonReport Lifetime Achievement Awards, the AIA Billing Index remains strong, DLC is offering a webinar on the effects of poor quality light at night, ArchLIGHT Summit is ramping up for their 2022 show, Espen Technology launches troffer retrofit kits, and RIBA announces 2021 International Prize shortlist.

A group of Melbourne cheerleaders have beaten the odds - and COVID lockdowns - to take the top prize in an international competition. The competition was meant to take place at Disney World in Florida, but instead of travelling, the Southern Cross Lady Reign group had to train via Zoom and perform their routine to the judges online.

Naomi Harris is a Canadian photographer and artist who seeks out interesting cultural trends to document through her subjects. Personal projects include Haddon Hall in which she photographed the last remaining elderly residents of a hotel in South Beach, Miami, Florida. For this work she received the 2001 International Prize for Young Photojournalism from Agfa/Das Bildforum, an honorable mention for the Yann Geffroy Award, and was a W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography finalist. Twenty years later the work is about to be jointly published in a book, also entitled Haddon Hall, by MAS and Void.For her next project America Swings, Naomi documented the phenomenon of swinging over the course of 5 years (from 2003 to 2008) all over the United States, attending thirty eight swingers parties in the process. This project was realized in her first monograph released by Taschen in 2008 as a limited collectors edition. A trade edition was released in 2010. Artist Richard Prince interviewed Naomi for the book, which was edited by Dian Hanson.Naomi then completed EUSA, a reaction to the homogenization of European and American cultures through globalization for which she visited and photographed American-themed amusement parks in Europe and European themed towns in America. The project was shortlisted for the Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award in 2016 and ultimately published as a book by Kehrer Books in 2018.Other accolades include being awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Photography in 2013, a Long-Term Career Advancement Grant from the Canada Council in 2012 and participating in the World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass in 2004.For her most recent project, I Voyager, Naomi embarked on a 70-day canoe trip along the fur trader's route in Ontario, Canada, accompanied by a guide and dressed in 19th century period costume inspired by the British painter Frances Anne Hopkins (1838 – 1919). The project includes self-portraiture and landscape photography and forms part of a much wider investigation into feminism, exploring the concepts of power, identity and sexuality.Naomi currently divides her time between Toronto and the USA where she is studying for an MFA in Studio Art at the graduate school of the University of Buffalo in New York state.On episode 162, Naomi discusses, among other things:Thoughts on social mediaDoing an MFA in Studio Arts and taking her practice in a new directionFacing the double whammy of gender disparity and ageismHaving a cloud over her head like Charlie BrownHer latest project, I Voyager.New book Haddon HallAmerica SwingsEUSA and the thorny topic of cultural appropriationExploring the theme of deathWebsite | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook“My timing is always off. I'm always one day and a dollar short.”

Every two years the International Prize in Statistics is given out to recognize an individual or team for major contributions to the field of statistics particularly those that have practical applications or which lead to breakthroughs in other disciplines. The winner is chosen in a collaboration between the American Statistical Association, the Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, the International Biometric Society, the International Statistical Institute, and the Royal Statistical Society. The 2021 honoree is Nan Laird and her award and career is the focus of this episode of Stats and Stories. Laird is the Harvey V. Fineberg Professor of Biostatistics at Harvard University. During her more than forty years on the faculty, she developed many simple and practical statistical methods for pressing public health and medical problems. Her work on the EM Algorithm, with Art Dempster and Don Rubin, is among the top 100 most cited of all published articles in science. She's also developed popular and widely used methods for meta-analysis, longitudinal data, and statistical genetics. She has worked in several areas of application including the quantification of adverse events in hospitals, childhood obesity, and genetic studies in Alzheimer's disease, bipolar disorder, asthma, and lung disease. Laird was awarded the 2021 International Prize in Statistics for, "her work on powerful methods that have made possible the analysis of complex longitudinal studies."

The International Prize in Statistics is considered the top award in the field of statistics. This year, it was awarded to Harvard Biostatistician Professor Nan Laird. In this episode, we chat with Professor Laird about the award as she looks back on her career. Joining us is one of her former PhD students turned colleague, Harvard Professor Garrett Fitzmaurice. The Random Sample is a podcast by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers. In this show, we share stories about mathematics, statistics and the people involved. To learn more about ACEMS, visit https://acems.org.au.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Entrevistamos en Cienciando al Dr. Ingeniero Jaime Gómez Hernández, Catedrático de Ingeniería Hidráulica y Medio Ambiente, y Responsable del Grupo de Hidrogeología del IIAMA-UPV (Instituto de Ingeniería del Agua y Medio Ambiente) de la Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, tras recibir el Premio Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water 2020, el más importante en el campo de la ingeniería del agua a nivel mundial, tanto por su prestigio como por su dotación económica. Estos galardones, que se conceden de manera bienal y engloban 5 modalidades, reconocen la investigación de vanguardia más innovadora realizada por científicos de todo el mundo para luchar contra la escasez de agua y mejorar su gestión, siendo el otorgado al Dr. Gómez-Hernández el premio en la categoría de «aguas subterráneas». Este premio está considerado como “el premio Nobel del Agua”.

Dr. Peter Crane is the Carl W. Knobloch Jr. Dean of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and Professor of Botany at Yale University. Much of Peter’s work has involved studying fossil plants, particularly plants from about 130 million years ago, to find out what they tell us about plant evolution and the evolution of flowering plants. Peter also compares fossil plants to those alive today to understand the relationships between historic and present day plants. Peter loves to travel and often gets to explore different places in the world as part of his scientific and other professional responsibilities. He enjoys spending time outside and is delighted to be able to work outdoors in the field for his research. When he has time to relax and pick up a book, Peter gravitates towards reading biographies of interesting people. Peter received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. in Botany from the University of Reading in the United Kingdom. Afterward, he conducted postdoctoral research at Indiana University and worked for about 17 years at the Field Museum in Chicago, rising from Assistant Curator in Paleobotany to Museum Director. Peter then served as Director and Chief Executive of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He also served as the John and Marion Sullivan University Professor at the University of Chicago before joining the faculty at Yale where he is today. Peter has received many prestigious awards and honors during his career. First and foremost, he was knighted in the United Kingdom in 2004 for his contributions to horticulture and conservation. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences, a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In addition, Peter has received multiple honorary degrees and fellowships, including an honorary doctoral degree from the University of Cambridge. He was also the recipient of the International Prize for Biology, as well as many other national and international awards. In this interview, Peter shares more about his life and science.

Penal Reform after Waikeria Prison disturbances - Kim Workman(of Ngati Kahungunu and Rangitaane descent) is a retired public servant, roles in the Police, the Office of the Ombudsman, State Services Commission, Department of Maori Affairs.He was Head of the Prison Service from 1989 – 1993. In 2005, Kim was the joint recipient (with Jackie Katounas) of the International Prize for Restorative Justice.In 2006 Kim joined with Major Campbell Roberts of the Salvation Army, to launch the “Rethinking Crime and Punishment” Strategy. Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz

Koko cries foul at the Zondo Commission, SA epidemiologist wins international prize and Google gets sued by ten US states

Koko cries foul at the Zondo Commission, SA epidemiologist wins international prize and Google gets sued by ten US states

Dieudo Hamadi and Face2Face host David Peck talk about his new film Downstream from Kinshasa, resilience over resistance, responsibility and reality, politics and the human condition and a desire for life and a better tomorrowTrailerSynopsis:Dieudo Hamadi returns with his latest portrait of his native Congo, honouring survivors of his country’s Six-Day War in 2000. Since making his feature documentary debut in 2013, Dieudo Hamadi has produced an unparalleled body of work that captures glimpses of contemporary Congolese life.In examining elections (Atalaku, 2013), schools (National Diploma, which played TIFF in 2014), violence against women and children (Mama Colonel, 2017), and political mobilization (Kinshasa Makambo, 2018), Hamadi has told individual stories that speak to collective experiences and histories. With Downstream to Kinshasa, Hamadi perfects this approach as he follows a group of victims of his country’s Six-Day War in 2000, who are seeking reparations from the government.In June 2000, Kisangani became a battleground. In this northeastern city on the Congo River, Rwandan and Ugandan forces clashed in a conflict that was part of the bloody Second Congo War. Though a devastating conflict — so much so that it’s sometimes called the African World War — 20 years later survivors are still fighting for compensation and recognition of the atrocities they endured in this siege.Here, Hamadi’s focus isn’t on past geopolitics but rather on the present and very personal: a group of Kisanganians who were maimed by the heavy shelling and gunfire. Through musical theatre, the victims have reclaimed their voices. But having never had official acknowledgement or financial compensation for their pain, they decide to journey down the Congo River to the capital in a bid to finally make their stories heard.(With thanks to TIFF)About Dieudo:Dieudo Hamadi was born in Kisangani (Democratic Republic of the Congo) in 1984 and studied Medicine in 2005-2008. He then attended several documentary workshops. Dieudo is author of two short documentaries Ladies in Waiting and Zero Tolerance that caught the attention of several festivals in Europe and Toronto. Ladies in Waiting received the ''Pierre and Yolande Perrault'' scholarship at Cinema du Réel in 2009.In 2013, with Atalaku, his first feature documentary he won the Jory Ivens Award in the Festival du Réel in Paris, the best Foreign film Prize at the San Diego Film Festival and the Jury Prize in Fidadoc. In 2014,National Diploma received the International Prize of the SCAM and the Potemkine Prize at the Festival du Réel. The film is shown at the TIFF in Toronto and travels to 60 festivals around the world.In 2017, Mama Colonelle is presented at the Berlinale and wins two awards - Best Film, Tagesspiegel Prize, Forum Section. After that it wins the Grand Prix at Cinema du Réel in Paris. The movie keeps on traveling in many festivals and an award for best documentary - AMAA 2017.In 2015, Dieudo created Kiripifilms, his own production company. In 2019 Dieudo Hamadi has been attributed the McMillan-Stewart Fellowship in Distinguished Filmmaking by the Film Study Center of Harvard University.Image Copyright and Credit: Kiripi Films and Dieudo HamadiF2F Music and Image Copyright: David Peck and Face2Face. Used with permission.For more information about David Peck’s podcasting, writing and public speaking please visit his site here.With thanks to Josh Snethlage and Mixed Media Sound. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Najwa Bin Shatwan, whose work has appeared here on ArabLit in translation, is widely acclaimed and well known, particularly since her shortlisting for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2017. A Libyan academic and novelist, Bin Shatwan is the author of three novels: The Horses' Hair (2007), Orange Content (2008), and Slave Pens (2016), as well as three short-story collections and a play. Before her IPAF shortlisting, Bin Shatwan was chosen as one of the 39 best Arab authors under the age of 40 by the Beirut39 project, in 2009, and her story The Pool and the Piano was included, in translation, in the Beirut39 anthology.

Today we note the birthday of a remarkable composer, conductor and virtuoso violinist: Eugéne Ysaÿe, who was born in Liége, Belgium, on today's date in 1858. After studies with two of the most famous violin composers of his day, Henyrk Wieniawski of Poland and his Belgian compatriot, Henri Vieuxtemps, Ysaÿe soon was touring Europe and Russia as a star performer himself. In 1886, when the 28-year old Ysaÿe married, the great Belgian composer Cesar Franck presented the young couple with his Violin Sonata in A Major as a wedding present. That same year, Ysaÿe founded a famous string quartet, and in 1893 it was the Ysaÿe Quartet that gave the premiere performance of Claude Debussy's String Quartet, a work its composer dedicated to the ensemble in admiration. In 1918, Ysaye made his American debut as a conductor with the Cincinnati Symphony, and made such a great impression there that he remained as music director of the Cincinnati Symphony from 1918 to 1922. As a composer, Ysaye wrote eight concertos and a set of six solo sonatas for the violin. In 1928, at the age of 70, the patriotic Belgian began work on an opera titled "Peter the Miner" to a libretto in his native Walloon language, and was at work on a second opera when he died at the age of 72, in 1931. In 1937, Queen Elizabeth of Belgium inaugurated the annual Eugene Ysaÿe International Prize for promising young violinists.

På midsommarafton släpper Bob Dylan sitt 39:e studioalbum, Rough and Rowdy Ways första plattan med nyskrivna låtar på 8 år. "En av Dylans bästa skivor någonsin" sa vår recensent Joakim Silverdal i morse hör honom förklara varför! MÖT ÅRETS VINNARE AV ARABVÄRLDENS STORA LITTERATURPRIS Ett av arabvärldens stora litterära pris, International Prize for Arabic Fiction gick i år till den algeriske författaren Abdelouahab Aissaoui. Priset fick han för romanen "Den spartanska domstolen" där han skildrar Algeriet under slutet av det osamanska riket och början på den franska kolonisationen och motståndet mot de två ockupationsmakterna. "KONSTEN ATT GÖRA ETT SOUNDTRACK"  OM ATT HÖRA PÅ FILM Just nu kan man se "Konsten att skapa ett soundtrack" på SVT Play, en dokumentär om att höra på film. P1 Kultur träffade filmens regissör Midge Costin när filmen visades på filmfestivalen i Cannes i fjol. ESSÄ: TILL BLÄDDRANDETS FÖRSVAR Om bläddringen  i kontrast till den långsamma noggranna läsningen  hittills saknat sin talesperson så har den fått det nu, i form av författaren och essäisten Henrik Nilsson. Programledare: Lisa Wall Producent: Eskil Krogh Larsson

للاستماع إلى بودكاست بعد أمس http://aj.audio/click  We discuss an acclaimed novel set during the first Palestinian Intifada and one inspired by a tiny, legendary bookstore in Algiers.  Show Notes: This year, the International Prize for Arabic Fiction—which went to Abdelouahab Aissaoui's The Spartan Court—and the Sheikh Zayed Book Award—which had winners in seven categories—both had awards ceremonies on YouTube.  MLQ will also participate in the now-online Sant Jordi Literary Festival (April 23-25), having recorded discussions with Elisabeth Jaquette about her translation of The Frightened Ones (by Dima Wannous) and Sawad Hussain about her translation of Bab as-Saha, or The Passage to the Plaza (by Sahar Khalifeh).  Khalifeh's classic 1990 novel The Passage to the Plaza is newly out in English from Seagull Books. Kaouther Adimi's Our Riches, translated by Chris Andrews, is also newly out from  New Directions; it follows the story of Edmond Charlot  and Les Vraies Richesses bookshop in Algiers.

Comedian Russell Howard on his new lockdown TV show, Home Time. Video conferenced from his childhood bedroom, he gives his entertaining take on life in quarantine, with remote music performances and interviews with comedians and key workers. The 2020 International Prize for Arabic Fiction has been announced today. The winner is Algerian novelist Abdelouahab Aissaoui for The Spartan Court which is set in the early 19th century when Algeria was invaded and captured by the French. Aissaoui is the first Algerian to win the prize, designed to increase the international reach of Arabic fiction. Scottish folk singer-songwriter Siobhan Miller is the three times MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards Singer of the Year and has also won a Radio 2 Folk Award. She discusses her fourth album, All Is Not Forgotten, and performs live. While we’re stuck at home John Mullan is making the case for us raising our spirits by reading, or re-reading, Austen novels. Tonight he makes the case for Northanger Abbey. Presenter: Samira Ahmed Producer: Hannah Robins

  We talk about the Syrian writer Dima Wannous' haunting novel The Frightened Ones, translated by Elisabeth Jacquette. It's a book about fear, panic and anxiety -- in one's body and society, between generations and lovers -- that is also somehow a great pleasure to read. Show Notes: The Frightened Ones was shortlisted for the 2018 International Prize for Arabic Fiction; its English translation is now out in the UK and forthcoming in the US.  We discussed the work of Wannous' father, the brilliant playwright Sa'adallah Wannous, in episode 28, “Sentenced to Hope.”  We mentioned concerns over the spread of COVID-19 in Egyptian prisons. Political prisoner Alaa Abdel Fattah wrote an essay on health and prison before the pandemic. 

In this episode, Finola speaks to three former language assistants - Jason, Clorrie and Isabel - about their experience as a language assistant in France. Starting with the typical week, they then discuss challenges and their adventures. From teaching the next generation of French chefs to having tea with a International Prize winning author! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/LanguageAssistants/message

In this episode of Unwrap Your Candies Now, Ernie Manouse introduces us to two of the performers taking to the Miller Outdoor Theatre stage as part of the 2019 Houston Shakespeare Festival. Shannon Uphold (Audrey/Ensemble) is a 2nd-year graduate student in the UH Professional Actor Training Program enjoying her second year with the festival; and Laura Frye is making her HSF debut after graduating from the University of Houston 12 years ago. Debuting in 1975,... Read More

MLQ is back from Abu Dhabi, and we talk about the recently awarded International Prize for Arabic Fiction — and an unfortunate controversy this year, involving leaks, no-shows, and calls for prosecution — and the book fair. We also share excerpts from the winning book and from several of the short-listed ones.

Rencontre avec l’écrivain Mohammed Abdelnabi pour parler de son livre La chambre de l’araignée.Dans cette interview, nous discutons de ce roman égyptien qui, s’il n’est pas le premier à évoquer ce sujet dans le monde arabe, est sans doute le premier à lui offrir la place centrale. À une époque où l’homosexualité est sévèrement réprimée en Égypte, l’auteur nous parle de ce livre, écrit en arabe, dans lequel le narrateur est homosexuel. Il nous explique ses intentions et son envie de contribuer à une meilleure compréhension de cette réalité. Une interview réalisée par Anne GreffeTraduction : Rania SamaraVoir la page du podcast de Mohammed Abdelnabi sur So Sweet Planet (+ photos et liens)Présentation par l’éditeurL’affaire du Queen Boat, qui fit à l’époque couler beaucoup d’encre, marque le début de la descente aux enfers de Hani Mahfouz, arrêté le jour-même de la rafle non sur le bateau mais dans la rue, alors qu’il se promène en compagnie de son ami Abdelaziz. Celui-ci, appartenant à une famille influente, est rapidement acquitté. Mais pas Hani, qui passe en prison plusieurs mois d’incessantes humiliations et en sort brisé – tant physiquement que moralement –, et ayant perdu l’usage de la parole.Reclus depuis lors dans une petite chambre d’hôtel, où seule une araignée comble sa solitude, il entreprend, sur le conseil d’un psychiatre, de consigner son histoire, en commençant par son enfance au sein d’une famille aisée. Habité de ses angoisses, il s’attelle à la tâche dans un va-et-vient permanent entre deux temps : avant et après son incarcération, avant et après son mariage forcé, avant et après sa première expérience charnelle avec un homme, avant et après la fréquentation de son mentor – dit “le Prince” pour son élégance et son rayonnement dans le milieu gay.D’autres histoires que la sienne surgissent dans sa mémoire : celles de ses compagnons d’infortune durant son incarcération ou d’homosexuels côtoyés auparavant, tous victimes de l’incompréhension de leurs proches et d’un rejet social quasi unanime, mais qui luttent différemment contre l’ostracisme ambiant, chacun selon son tempérament, tantôt en se repliant douloureusement sur lui-même, tantôt en affichant haut et fort son homosexualité – sans oublier ceux qui finissent par se suicider.Le grand mérite de La Chambre de l’araignée n’est pas seulement d’explorer en profondeur, et pour la première fois, la condition homosexuelle en Égypte, mais aussi de le faire dans une langue toute en retenue, en évitant les clichés et les anachronismes.Né en 1977, Muhammad Abdelnabi a fait des études de langue anglaise, de traduction et d’interprétation simultanée à l’université d’Al-Azhar, au Caire. Il est traducteur-interprète et anime un atelier d’écriture. Son deuxième roman, La Chambre de l’araignée, a été retenu en 2016 sur la short list de l’International Prize for Arabic Fiction. Muhammad Abdelnabi compte incontestablement parmi les écrivains égyptiens les plus brillants de sa génération.La Chambre de l’araignée de Mohammed AbdelnabiÉditions Sindbad / ACTES SUD - “Mondes arabes”Commander La Chambre de l’araignée de Mohammed Abdelnabi sur le site Librairies IndépendantesHuman Rights Watch : Égypte : la chasse aux homosexuels s'intensifie - 6 octobre 2017BBC.com : En Egypte, un an de prison pour l'interview d'un homosexuel - 21 janvier 2019

We talk the Brit Awards, the women dominating the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, John Legend and Palestine, Baby inspiration for Nancy Ajram's new tune plus George Michael's stunning art collection going under the hammer, with Saeed Saeed Arts and Culture Reporter for The National. Listen to #Pulse95Radio in the UAE by tuning in on your radio (95.00 FM) or online on our website: www.pulse95radio.com ************************ Follow us on Social. www.facebook.com/pulse95radio www.twitter.com/pulse95radio www.instagram.com/pulse95radio

What should you recommend to someone who is interested in exploring Arabic literature? We tackle this big question this week; we also talk about the authors short-listed on the International Prize for Arabic Fiction and about North African literature in English translation.

Brad Efron is Max H. Stein Professor of Humanities and Sciences and Professor of Statistics at Stanford University, and Professor of Biostatistics with the Department of Biomedical Data Science in the Stanford School of Medicine; he serves as Co-director of the undergraduate Mathematical and Computational Sciences Program administered by the Department of Statistics. He has held visiting faculty appointments at Harvard, UC Berkeley, and Imperial College, London. He has been recognized with the 2018 International Prize in Statistics.

The first episode of the DataBytes Podcast where we discuss popular topics related to data, statistics, data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence. In this episode, we discuss Thanksgiving food, the College Football Playoff selection, and the winner of the International Prize in Statistics. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/databytes/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/databytes/support

Dr.Susan Ellenberg is Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics , Perelman School of Medicineat the University of Pennsylvania, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy. She was the ​Chair of the International Prize in Statistics Foundation that will be awarded at the World Statistics Congressin July 2017.

Dr. Susan Ellenberg is Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics , Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy. She was the ​Chair of the International Prize in Statistics Foundation that will be awarded at the World Statistics Congress in July 2017.

Isobel was born and educated in Cambridge and came to Dubai in 1968 which has been her home ever since.Isobel taught at the Dubai Infants School for several years before her involvement in setting up Al Ittehad Private School and soon after co-founding Magrudy’s, a bookshop chain, in 1975.In addition to Magrudy’s, Isobel actively set about publishing children’s books in Arabic and English that have relevance to children from, and living in, the region. Together with the support of the Mohammed Bin Rashid al Maktoum Foundation, Isobel initiated a new reading and teaching scheme in Arabic, called Bustan Al Qusas, which empowered teachers to write and use their own stories.In 2008 Isobel founded and is Director of the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature, the Middle East’s largest celebration of the written and spoken word, bringing people of all ages together with authors from across the world to promote education, debate and, above all else, reading. The Festival won the Best Festival title at the Middle East Event Awards in 2013, 2014 and 2015, and in 2016 was declared Best Family Friendly Day Out at the Time Out Dubai Kids Awards.Awarded the Cultural Personality of the Year by Dr HH Sheikh Sultan Bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, the Ruler of Sharjah in 2010, an OBE by HM Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain in 2012, Cultural Icon of UAE by The 3rd Petrochem GR8! Women Awards-Middle East 2013, one of the Watani Humanitarian Awards in 2013 and more recently, the Al Owais Cultural Award 2014 and the Time Out Kids Outstanding Contribution to Children’s Award, Isobel has received official recognition for her tireless campaign to improve literacy and a love of books, particularly for children.In May 2013 and 2014, Middle East Business selected Isobel as one of the most influential Brits and the most inspirational woman living in the UAE. She was also selected at the 2015 Femina Middle East Awards ceremony as an ‘Unstoppable Woman’.On the eve of the 2013 Festival, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, The Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, and also the Festival patron, issued a Decree forming the Emirates Literature Foundation, naming Isobel as one of the trustees on the Board. In addition, Isobel also holds the position of CEO of the Foundation.Isobel was appointed a Trustee for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2014, the premier prize for novelists in Arabic.As the co-host of ‘Talking of Books’, broadcast weekly on Dubai Eye 103.8 FM, Isobel has now found an enjoyable way to spend Saturday mornings discussing the latest titles and interviewing authors from around the world.Enjoy the show! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Parinoush Saniee is an Iranian born writer. She was trained as a psychologist but has garnered an international reputation as a writer of fiction that focuses on the plight of Iranian women. Her work is especially intriguing because she combines her experience as a psychologist with her talent as a writer of fiction. Her first book, My Share, has been translated in 26 languages and has won several awards, including Spain’s Euskadi de Plata Prize in 2015, and was the International Prize winner of the XXVIV edition of the prestigious Giovanni Bobabbio’s prize in Italy for the best foreign book in 2010. Her second book, The Father of the Other One, has been published several times inside Iran and abroad and has been translated into 10 languages. After its initial publication in 2007, her latest book, Those Who Left and Those Who Stayed was banned. It offers a poignant portrayal of the difficulty of a large family, half in diaspora and half in Iran, in having a peaceful family reunion. http://iranian-studies.stanford.edu/event/women_in_iranian_fiction

Dr. Winslow Briggs is Director Emeritus of the Carnegie Institution Of Science. He received his Ph.D. in Biology from Harvard University. He has served on the faculty at Harvard University and is a Professor of Biology Emeritus at Stanford University. Winslow has been the recipient of many awards and honors over the course of his career. He is an elected Member of the  U.S. National Academy of Science, a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, and a Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences. In addition, he was awarded International Prize for Biology from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, the Adolph E. Gude Jr. Award from the American Society of Plant Biologists, an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Freiberg, the Finsen Medal from the International Association of Photobiology, the Sterling Hendricks Medal from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the American Chemical Society, the Stephen Hales Prize from the American Society of Plant Physiologists, the Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Winslow is here with us today to talk share his passion for research and tell us about his experiences in life and science.

Shortly after Grafton Architects won RIBA's inaugural International Prize for their UTEC campus in Lima, Peru, I spoke with the firm's director, Yvonne Farrell, to get the backstory to the project and discuss how the award might affect the firm in the long run. As an academic building, UTEC joins a rich collection of other institutional projects by the Dublin-based Grafton.  

Georgina Godwin interviews Raja Alem, winner of the 2011 International Prize for Arabic Fiction. With reference to her latest book The Dove’s Necklace which she launched at the festival, she discusses her writing —a blend of modern and traditional themes – a style that has made her unique among Saudi authors.

Anne McElvoy talks to Syrian architect Marwa Al-Sabouni about her country's built environment its impact on the behaviour of the people who live there. Also the politics of judging book prizes is debated by Professor Geoffrey Hosking, emeritus professor of Russian history, School of Slavonic & East European Studies, University College London and Fleur Montanaro, Administrator of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction. Writers Lasha Bugadze and Aka Morchiladze discuss Georgian literature past and present. The Battle for Home: The Memoir of a Syrian Architect by Marwa Al-Sabouni is out now.The winner of the 2016 Pushkin House Russian Book Prize is announced on April 25th. These are the shortlisted books Maisky Diaries: Red Ambassador to the Court of St James's 1932-43. Gabriel Gorodetsky, editor (Yale University Press) Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator. Oleg Khlevniuk, translated by Nora Seligman Favorov (Yale University Press) Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia. Dominic Lieven (Penguin) Russia and the New World Disorder. Bobo Lo (Brookings Institution) Stalin and the Struggle for Supremacy in Eurasia. Alfred Rieber (Cambridge University Press) The End of the Cold War: 1985-1991. Robert Service (Pan Macmillan)The winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2016 will be announced at an awards ceremony in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday 26 April, the eve of the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair. These are the shortlisted books Mercury by Mohamed Rabie A Sky Close to our House by Shahla Ujayli Numedia by Tareq Bakari Praise for the Women of the Family by Mahmoud Shukair Guard of the Dead by George Yaraq Destinies: Concerto of the Holocaust and the Nakba by Rabai al-MadhounProducer: Torquil MacLeod.

Peter Crane is the Carl W. Knobloch Jr. Dean of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and Professor of Botany at Yale University. Peter received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. in Botany from the University of Reading in the United Kingdom. Afterward, he conducted postdoctoral research at Indiana University and worked for about 17 years at the Field Museum in Chicago, rising from Assistant Curator in Paleobotany to Museum Director. Peter then served as Director and Chief Executive of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He also served as the John and Marion Sullivan University Professor at the University of Chicago before joining the faculty at Yale where he is today. Peter has received many prestigious awards and honors during his career. First and foremost, he was knighted in the United Kingdom in 2004 for his contributions to horticulture and conservation. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences, a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In addition, Peter has received multiple honorary degrees and fellowships, including an honorary doctoral degree from the University of Cambridge. He was also the recipient of the International Prize for Biology awarded in Japan last December, as well as many other national and international awards. Peter is here with us today to tell us all about his journey through life and science.

Nov. 4, 2011. PlanetRead is the recipient of the International Prize, one of three 2013 Library of Congress Literacy Awards. Speaker Biography: Brij Kothari is an Indian academic and a social entrepreneur, and president of PlanetRead, a non-profit involved in furthering Same Language Subtitling throughout the world. For transcript, captions and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6150

On Tuesday, in Abu Dhabi, Saud Alsanousi was announced winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction. In this podcast, recorded the morning after the announcement, deputy editor Ellah Allfrey spoke to Alsanousi about the place of guest workers in the Gulf countries, book clubs in Kuwait and the writing life. The podcast is in English and Arabic.

Harriett Gilbert talks to the Egyptian writer, Bahaa Taher an Egyptian novelist who writes in Arabic and is the winner of the inaugural International Prize for Arabic Fiction, awarded in 2008.