Date: Monday, May 6, 2013. 5:30 PM.
Location: Stanford Humanities Center, Board Room
Author Visit: Sonallah Ibrahim Sonallah Ibrahim "one of Egypt's most formally interesting and politically uncompromising writers" will be giving a public talk in conversation with Professor Noha Radwan (Arabic & Comp Lit, UC Davis) and Professor Alexander Key (Arabic & Comp Lit, Stanford) in the Humanities Center Boardoom from 5:30-7:30pm on Monday 6 May 2013. His most recently translated book, "That Smell" "was a breathtakingly subversive answer to the problem of the omnipresence of the state in daily life and the inability of Arabic literature to express and capture that reality. It met with immediate censorship." (Yasmine El Rashidi , NYRB)
Location: Stanford Humanities Center, Board Room
Author Visit: Sonallah Ibrahim Sonallah Ibrahim "one of Egypt's most formally interesting and politically uncompromising writers" will be giving a public talk in conversation with Professor Noha Radwan (Arabic & Comp Lit, UC Davis) and Professor Alexander Key (Arabic & Comp Lit, Stanford) in the Humanities Center Boardoom from 5:30-7:30pm on Monday 6 May 2013. His most recently translated book, "That Smell" "was a breathtakingly subversive answer to the problem of the omnipresence of the state in daily life and the inability of Arabic literature to express and capture that reality. It met with immediate censorship." (Yasmine El Rashidi , NYRB)