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A LECTURE BY<br>
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AMMIEL ALCALAY<br><br>
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4043 INTN<br>
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3-5 PM, TUESDAY APRIL 13 <br><br>
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**Selections from a forthcoming book, <i>a little history</i>, which will
be a point of departure for the talk, are available from Jeff Sacks @
<a href="http://jeff.sacks.ca">jeff.sacks.ca</a>
@<a href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a><br>
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AMMIEL ALCALAY is 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. He was the first holder of the Lannan
Visiting Chair in Poetics at Georgetown University and has been a
visiting professor at Stanford University. His latest book,
<i>Islanders</i>, a novel, is out from City Lights in 2010.
<i>Scrapmetal</i>: <i>work in progress</i> came out with Factory School
in 2007. <i>from the warring factions</i>, a book length poem dedicated
to the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, came out in 2002, and is due for a
2<sup>nd</sup> edition in 2010. <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, <i>Keys to the Garden: New Israeli
Writing</i> (City Lights, 1996), and the co-translation of a Hebrew novel
(with Oz Shelach), <i>Outcast</i>, by Shimon Ballas (City Lights, 2007).
<i>A Little History</i>, a book of essays on politics and poetics is due
out in 2010 from Beyond Baroque. He has also been involved as an activist
on many domestic and international issues. 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. Most recently, he is the founder and general editor of Lost
& Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative
(<a href="http://centerforthehumanitiesgc.org/lostandfound">
http://centerforthehumanitiesgc.org/lostandfound</a>).<br><br>
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<div align="center">SPONSORED BY THE DECOLONIZATION STUDIES MELLON
WORKSHIP, THE CENTER FOR IDEAS AND SOCIETY, AND THE DEPARTMENT OF
CREATIVE WRITING<br>
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John M. Ganim<br>
Professor of English<br>
Department of English<br>
University of California, Riverside<br>
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