Adam Talib

classical Arabic 🔥
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[Adam Talib @khosh_adam]

Here's a recording of my talk for UCLA's experimental critical theory series. The problem of scale in marginalized mega-cultures @UCLA_CMRS
https://t.co/qHnL8JxsJG

[The Markaz Review is @markaz-review.bsky.social @TheMarkazReview]

📚 [TMR WEEKLY]

Fatma Qandil’s “Empty Cages” (@aucpress) doesn’t flinch—it confronts the silence, shame, and longing that shape girls into women. @AhmedNajiTW dives deep into a novel where the body becomes a battleground and taboo is turned inside out.

From childhood gardens in Cairo to the bruising realities of Egyptian womanhood, Qandil’s relentless honesty and poetic craft pull empathy from the hardest places. The cages women inhabit are built of care, trauma, desire—and even after they’re emptied, they remain.

🔗 Read the full review: https://t.co/dfleyYKW7X

#TheMarkazReview #TMRweekly #FatmaQandil #AhmedNaji #EmptyCages #AUCPress #ArabicLiterature #EgyptianWomen #Taboo #FeministBooks #LiteraryExploration

[The New Arab @The_NewArab]

Book Club 📚 'Empty Cages' by Fatma Qandil (trans. Adam Talib) explores a family’s dysfunction, revealing how addiction and betrayal shaped one woman’s life while also helping her grow stronger: https://t.co/Vjqw8HTEnn

[BRITTLE PAPER @brittlepaper]

Winner of the Naguib Mahfouz Medal, EMPTY CAGES by Fatma Qandil is a raw, lyrical reckoning with family, memory, and womanhood in post-60s Egypt

A daughter looks back to make sense of love, loss, and the ruins of home. Check out an excerpt via @AUCPress:
https://t.co/pxME3PPJcL

[Adam Talib @khosh_adam]

@liew_hh @ATQuickel @stabiberlin I'm afraid not. I'm sorry about that

[Arab & Islamic Civ @ARIC_Dept_AUC]

New ARIC Faculty Publication!
This article by Dr Adam Talib, Associate Professor of Arabic Literature at ARIC, has just been published: "Unlearning the Aesthetics of Malicious Joy," al-Usur al-Wusta vol. 32 (2024), 340-360.
https://t.co/v4gQcQFUUP
https://t.co/JcBwuzRTBR

[Al-ʿUsur al-Wusta @alusuralwusta]

the article is open access, so you can read, download, & share it here:
https://t.co/gglVQsMkJN

here’s the full abstract:

[Al-ʿUsur al-Wusta @alusuralwusta]

New article alert!

"Students of premodern Arabic poetry are more likely to be taught about saliva than sexual violence, coercion, or enslavement." Adam Talib argues that the teaching & presentation of Classical Arabic poetry obscures its relation to social worlds, past & present

[Matthew L. Keegan @Lit_as_Adab]

I'm happy to say that we will be joined by @khosh_adam as respondent-discussant! Looking forward to seeing you all there.

[Chihab El Khachab | شهاب الخشاب @celkhachab]

Just out in Cairo!! 📣📣

My new book “Al-Fahhama” {The Explanation Machine}, an introduction to social theory in Egyptian colloquial Arabic through 120 key concepts!

Available soon in all @DiwanBookstore branches and published by Diwan too

[Adam Talib @khosh_adam]

There's still a lot of antiquarianism in the field, but as this new special issue demonstrates البركة في الشباب
https://t.co/TiMHgArbu4
congratulations to Ghayde and @GunduzOzzy

[Al-ʿUsur al-Wusta @alusuralwusta]

UW publishes all year round, but the annual meeting of @MESA_1966 is still momentous! We publish the thematic dossier, book reviews, & more. Our 2022 issue clocked in at 661 pages of insightful work on fascinating topics! 🧵⬇️

[Middle Eastern Literatures @MELiteratures]

We're excited to publish this new article by @kseigneurie. It "focuses on one non-Western writer’s response to the emptiness at the heart of liberalism, [tracing] Naguib Mahfouz’s indictment of liberalism in his 1965 novel The Beggar" https://t.co/96Zned6PEI

[Arab & Islamic Civ @ARIC_Dept_AUC]

We're hiring a historian (open-rank) of the pre-1800 Islamic World. Our department is a center of interdisciplinary research that brings together specialists of material culture, historiography and documents, philology, and Islamic studies. https://t.co/Jpl1TcQCrt

[FWFT Conference @fwft2023]

EXTENSION: We are extending our deadline to Friday, 28 October. Please send your abstracts to [email protected] by this date, and contact us if you have any questions!

[Middle Eastern Literatures @MELiteratures]

Wen-chin Ouyang's review of two new books on the 1001 Nights's contemporary intertexts: https://t.co/Tu7wMQQH5u

[Middle Eastern Literatures @MELiteratures]

Annamaria Bianco reviews @JohannaBSellman's new book _Arabic Exile Literature in Europe. Defamiliarising Forced Migration_ https://t.co/giQrlCvON4

[Middle Eastern Literatures @MELiteratures]

The latest offering from MEL, and the first article of 24.3:
Is the Arab nahḍah really Arabic? Very excited by Alaaeldin Mahmoud's piece!
https://t.co/ij7yp82c8y

[Brick, A Literary Journal @brickliterary]

Step inside the Old City of Jerusalem with #AdaniaShibli in her essay from #Brick104. Translated from the Arabic by @khosh_adam, you'll enter Warda's world, where
"letters of the alphabet would echo around the alleyway."

https://t.co/GbXbYbxxmp.

[Middle Eastern Literatures @MELiteratures]

Issue 24.2 is a wrap. Alongside articles on the Palestinian literary sea, al-Maghout's rhetoric of sincerity and the Iranian-Jewish periodical Ha-Hayyim, we've some brilliant translations of Syrian poet Wafai Laila
https://t.co/URpKGA1UIQ

[Daniel Amir @Daniel_Amir1]

My article on Iranian Jewish poetry in the 1920s is finally out and open access in @MELiteratures! It's got Zionism, Constitutionalism, and satirical turnips - so something for everyone.

https://t.co/C4QRXkfGLo