but flashing glances
but that can do
what must be done.
– Iman Mersal, ‘I Look Around Me,’ translated by Khaled Mattawa, Words Without Borders, January 2006, used here by permission
Today (May 25), Mersal is among the Sheikh Zayed Book Award program’s most adamantly acclaimed laureates, welcomed as the 2021 winner in Literature for her creative nonfiction work
Fee Athar Enayat Al-Zayyat (In the Footsteps of Enayat Al-Zayyat), published in 2019 by Al Kotob Khan Library.
The French Edition, Actes Sud/Sindbad, the Arab Library
In April, Actes Sud’s Sindbad Arab Library published
Sur les traces d’Enayat Zayyat, a translation into French by Richard Jacquemond. An English edition reportedly is in progress.
âTurkestanâ by Bobby Jones and Jack Stern discovered at the US Congress Library archives 12 May 2021 10:04 Share in:
NUR-SULTAN. KAZINFORM âTurkestanâ, the Broadway song hit in 1919, was discovered at the US Congress Library archives as a result of the Farab Library scientific research, the Instagram account of the Elbasyâs press service reads. Related news
The song was performed by American Quartet. Its lyric was written by Bobby Jones, music by Jack Stern. As different archival sources say the album could have been written in 1906 or 1919.
As earlier reported, on May 11 First President of Kazakhstan âElbasy Nursultan Nazarbayev visited the Turkestan regional scientific library Farab. Elbasy got acquainted with the FabLab digital laboratory outcomes, surveyed the rare books and manuscripts hall. The library boasts more than 480,000 books. The three-storey library covers 2,600 sq m.
April 06, 2021
late French Professor Thierry Mauger.
RIYADH Literature, Publishing and Translation Commission is all geared up to republish the works of late French Professor Thierry Mauger, who documented aspects of culture and life in the Southern Region of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia during the 1980s.
These works will be launched Tuesday evening at a ceremony in Diriyah, in the presence of a delegation from the French Embassy in Saudi Arabia, Asir Development Authority, and a number of officials from Jazan region, researchers and interested individuals.
The ceremony will include a dialogue session with Saudis who accompanied the professor on his trips, displaying a selection of books pictures through interactive screens provided by the commission, in addition to digital screens dedicated to browsing the books.
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