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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">dear all --<br><br>
i'm writing to share that ammiel alcalay will be at ucr on tuesday, april
13, to do a talk, from 3-5pm. as of now the title of the talk and
location are tba, but i wanted to share, so that you could put it on your
calendars. <br><br>
ammiel alcalay's talk is sponsored by the decolonization studies mellon
workshop, the center for ideas and society, and the department of
creative writing.<br>
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best wishes, & i'll pass along details soon,<br><br>
jeff sacks<br><br>
assistant professor<br>
department of comparative literature<br>
uc, riverside<br><br>
AMMIEL ALCALAY is a poet, translator, critic, scholar and activist; he
teaches in the Department of Classical, Middle Eastern & Asian
Languages & Cultures at Queens College and is a member of the
faculties of American Studies, Comparative Literature, English, and
Medieval Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center where is also Deputy Chair
of the PhD Program in English. His latest work, <i>Scrapmetal</i>,
recently came out with Factory School. <i>from the warring factions</i>,
a book length poem dedicated to the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, came out
in 2002. <i>Poetry, Politics & Translation: American Isolation and
the Middle East</i>, a lecture given at Cornell, was published in 2003 by
Palm Press. Other books include <i>After Jews and Arabs: Remaking
Levantine Culture</i> (University of Minnesota Press, 1993), <i>the
cairo noteboooks</i> (Singing Horse Press, 1993), and <i>Memories of Our
Future: Selected Essays</i>, 1982-1999 (City Lights, 1999). He has
translated widely, including <i>Sarajevo Blues</i> (City Lights, 1998)
and <i>Nine Alexandrias</i> (City Lights 2003) by the Bosnian poet
Semezdin Mehmedinovic , and <i>Keys to the Garden: New Israeli
Writing</i> (City Lights, 1996). He has also been involved as an activist
on many domestic and international issues. His latest projects include
co-translation of a Hebrew novel (with Oz Shelach), <i>Outcast</i>,
by Shimon Ballas (City Lights, 2007), and two books forthcoming from
Beyond Baroque: <i>A Little History</i>, a book of essays on politics and
poetics, and a collective translation of the Syrian poet Faraj
Bayraqdar. City Lights will publish a novel, <i>Islanders</i>, in
2010. He has been a regular contributor to the <i>Village Voice</i> and
his poetry, prose, reviews, critical articles and translations have
appeared <i>in The New York Times Book Review</i>, <i>The New Yorker</i>,
<i>Time Magazine</i>, <i>al-Ahram</i>, <i>The New Republic</i>, <i>Grand
Street</i>, <i>Conjunctions</i>, <i>Sulfur</i>, <i>The Nation</i>, and
various other publications in the United States and abroad. Along with
Anne Waldman and others, he was one of the initiators of the <i>Poetry Is
News Coalition</i>, and he organized, with Mike Kelleher, the
<i>OlsonNow</i> project.</blockquote></body>
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