CALIFORNIA

As part of the Bridging Cultures: Poetic Voices of the Muslim World Exhibit, the Arab Cultural and Community Center presents, in partnership with the San Francisco Public Library and Poets House:

The Thousand and One Nights with Dr. Sinan Antoon

The Thousand and One Nights is among the world’s most beloved works. Since its translation and publication into European languages it has captivated the imagination not only of popular audiences but of countless writers and artists such as Poe, Joyce, Borges, Mahfouz, and Rushdie. The narratives of the Nights and the many offshoots they spawned have had a fascinating influence on literary and artistic production, popular culture and political imagination. Sinan Antoon‘s talk introduces audiences to this important world masterpiece and the debates surrounding it.

Thursday April 16, 2015
7:00pm – 9:00pm
2 Plaza St. SF

Dr. Sinan Antoon is an Iraqi-American poet, novelist, scholar, and an associate professor at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University. His teaching and research interests lie in pre-modern and modern Arabic literature and contemporary Arab culture and politics. He has published three novels, and two collections of poetry in Arabic and one collection in English. His scholarly works include The Poetics of the Obscene: Ibn al-Hajjaj and Sukhf (2014) and numerous essays on the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish, Sargon Boulus and on contemporary Iraqi culture. His essays and creative writings have appeared in major journals and publications in the Arab world including The Journal of Arabic Literature, The Nation, The New York Times, Ploughshares, World Literature Today, and Aljazeera.net. He co-directed a documentary on the lives of Iraqis in a post-Saddam-occupied Iraq About Baghdad (2003).