UWP Lecturers ammiel alcalay at ucr from Jeff Sacks

[John Ganim]

>dear all --
>
>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.
>
>ammiel alcalay's talk is sponsored by the decolonization studies 
>mellon workshop, the center for ideas and society, and the 
>department of creative writing.
>
>best wishes, & i'll pass along details soon,
>
>jeff sacks
>
>assistant professor
>department of comparative literature
>uc, riverside
>
>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, Scrapmetal, 
>recently came out with Factory School. from the warring factions, a 
>book length poem dedicated to the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, came 
>out in 2002. Poetry, Politics & Translation: American Isolation and 
>the Middle East, a lecture given at Cornell, was published in 2003 
>by Palm Press. Other books include After Jews and Arabs: Remaking 
>Levantine Culture  (University of Minnesota Press, 1993), the cairo 
>noteboooks (Singing Horse Press, 1993), and Memories of Our Future: 
>Selected Essays, 1982-1999 (City Lights, 1999). He has translated 
>widely, including Sarajevo Blues (City Lights, 1998) and Nine 
>Alexandrias (City Lights 2003) by the Bosnian poet Semezdin 
>Mehmedinovic , and Keys to the Garden: New Israeli Writing (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), Outcast, by 
>Shimon Ballas (City Lights, 2007), and two books forthcoming from 
>Beyond Baroque: A Little History, a book of essays on politics and 
>poetics, and a collective translation of the Syrian poet Faraj 
>Bayraqdar.  City Lights will publish a novel, Islanders, in 2010. He 
>has been a regular contributor to the Village Voice and his poetry, 
>prose, reviews, critical articles and translations have appeared in 
>The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Time Magazine, 
>al-Ahram, The New Republic, Grand Street, Conjunctions, Sulfur, The 
>Nation, and various other publications in the United States and 
>abroad. Along with Anne Waldman and others, he was one of the 
>initiators of the Poetry Is News Coalition, and he organized, with 
>Mike Kelleher, the OlsonNow project.
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