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SUMMARY:1001 Nights: Lecture by Dr. Sinan Antoon
DESCRIPTION:CALIFORNIA\n\nAs part of the Bridging Cultures: Poetic Voices o
 f the Muslim World Exhibit\, the Arab Cultural and Community Center presen
 ts\, in partnership with the San Francisco Public Library and Poets House:
 \n\nThe Thousand and One Nights with Dr. Sinan Antoon\n\nThe 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 Night
 s and the many offshoots they spawned have had a fascinating influence on 
 literary and artistic production\, popular culture and political imaginati
 on. Sinan Antoon's talk introduces audiences to this important world maste
 rpiece and the debates surrounding it.\n\n\nThursday April 16\, 2015\n7:00
 pm - 9:00pm\n2 Plaza St. SF\n\n\nDr. Sinan Antoon is an Iraqi-American poe
 t\, 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 collect
 ions of poetry in Arabic and one collection in English. His scholarly work
 s include The Poetics of the Obscene: Ibn al-Hajjaj and Sukhf (2014) and n
 umerous essays on the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish\, Sargon Boulus and on con
 temporary Iraqi culture. His essays and creative writings have appeared in
  major journals and publications in the Arab world including The Journal o
 f Arabic Literature\, The Nation\, The New York Times\, Ploughshares\, Wor
 ld Literature Today\, and Aljazeera.net. He co-directed a documentary on
  the lives of Iraqis in a post-Saddam-occupied Iraq About Baghdad (2003).\
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LOCATION:Arab Cultural & Community Center\, 2 Plaza Street\, San Francisco\
 , CA\, 94116 \, United States
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