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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nFriday, March 07, 2025 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
  \n JHB318 \n Jackman Humanities Building (170 St. George Street, Toronto
 ) \n\nSpeakers \nDima Ayoub, Associate Professor, Middlebury College \n
 \nDescription: \nParatexts in Arabic Translation (Or The Persistence of Ot
 hering)Please join us for our next Marmura talk, with Dima Ayoub, who wi
 ll analyze how translators rely on paratexts (introductions, forewords, 
 afterwords, prefaces) to navigate the Orientalist legacies and political 
 agendas that shape Arabic literature’s westward movement into the Anglopho
 ne world!Abstract: In this talks, Ayoub examines the key figures, instit
 utions, and networks involved in the intellectual history and intellectua
 l formation of the field of Arabic literature in English translation. She 
 foregrounds a dense array of translators, publishers, and writers to exp
 lore the evolution of post-war Arabic-to-English literary translation and 
 the interplay between some of Arabic literature’s foremost English transla
 tors and government, academic, and publishing institutions. She asks: Ho
 w do translators rely on paratexts (introductions, forewords, afterwords
 , prefaces) to navigate the Orientalist legacies and political agendas th
 at shape Arabic literature’s westward movement into the Anglophone world?B
 io: Dima Ayoub is Associate Professor of Arabic and Chair of the Arabic De
 partment at Middlebury College where she was also the C.V. Starr Junior Fa
 culty Fellow in International Studies and former director of the Middle Ea
 st studies program. Her book manuscript Paratext and Power: Modern Arabic 
 Literature in Translation examines the key figures, institutions, and ne
 tworks involved in the intellectual history and intellectual formation of 
 the field of Arabic literature in English translation. Parallel to her boo
 k project, Dr. Ayoub is currently developing a digital archive of paratex
 ts in modern Arabic literature in English, French, German and Spanish tr
 anslation. Her most recent publications appeared in Critical Inquiry, Los
  Angeles Review of Books, Journal of Translation Studies, the Journal of
  Arabic Literature and Middle Eastern Literatures and in the edited collec
 tion, Multilingual Literature as World Literature (Bloomsbury).For zoom r
 egistration: https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/eE8dm1tFTsKR4pZ_ljf
 k4g* See the event poster: 2024-25.7.marmura.ayoub_.pdf \n\nSponsors \nThe
  Centre for Comparative Literature \n\nCategories \n Lectures \n\nAudience
 s \n Alumni and FriendsCommunityFacultyGraduate StudentsProspective Studen
 tsStaffUndergraduate StudentsGeneral Public
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SUMMARY:Michael E. Marmura Lectures in Arabic Studies 2024-25: Dima Ayoub
URL;TYPE=URI:https://www.nmc.utoronto.ca/events/michael-e-marmura-lectures-
 arabic-studies-2024-25-dima-ayoub
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