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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150122T180000
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URL:https://test.arabamerica.com/events/writing-across-borders-languages-c
 onversation-italian-algerian-author-amara-lakhous/
SUMMARY:Writing across Borders and Languages: A conversation with Italian-A
 lgerian author Amara Lakhous
DESCRIPTION:Author joined by Madeleine Dobie\, Elizabeth Leake\, and Pier M
 attia Tommasino\n\nBorn in Algiers in 1970\, Amara Lakhous departed for It
 aly during the violence that ravaged Algeria in the 1990s. His critically 
 acclaimed novels in Arabic and Italian include Clash of Civilizations over
  an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio (2010)\, Divorce Islamic Style (2012) andD
 ispute over a Very Italian Piglet (2014). Using humor to explore the encou
 nter of cultures\, religions and languages\, Lakhous's work explores the e
 xperience of exile and the dynamics of migration in the contemporary Medit
 erranean. His novels have won major literary prizes\, including Premio Fla
 iano per la narrativa in 2006 and Algeria’s most prestigious literary aw
 ard\, the Prix des libraires algériens in 2008. Clash of Civilizations ov
 er an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio has been adopted by Cornell University a
 s the New Student Reading Project text for 2014.\n\nHe will discuss his no
 vels\, the practice of bilingual writing and translation\, literary cultur
 e in Algeria and Italy\, and the social and political framework of contemp
 orary migration\, with Columbia Professors Madeleine Dobie (French and Com
 parative Literature)\, Elizabeth Leake (Italian) and Pier Mattia Tommasino
  (Italian).\n\nCo-sponsored by the Columbia Maison Française\, Italian Ac
 ademy for Advanced Studies in America\, Institute of African Studies\, Ins
 titute for Comparative Literature and Society\, European Institute\, Middl
 e East Institute and Department of Middle Eastern\, South Asian and Africa
 n Studies\n\n&nbsp\;
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CATEGORIES:Books/Literature
LOCATION:Columbia University  (East Gallery\, Buell Hall)\, 116th Street an
 d Broadway\, \, New York\, NY\,  10027\, United States
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