Writers Institute Blog: Ghassan Zaqtan on PBS NewsHour

Tomorrow's visitor to UAlbany, Palestinian poet and Director General of the Literature Department of the Palestinian?Ministry of Culture, is featured on the Poetry Series web page of The News Hour with Jim Lehrer with audio of readings in both English and Arabic.

NewsHour link: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/indepth_coverage/entertainment/poetry/profiles/poet_zaqtan.html

Here are the event details:

Ghassan Zaqtan, Palestinian poet, with Fady Joudah, Palestinian-American poet and translator
October 16 (Tuesday)
Seminar ? 4:15 p.m., Campus Center Room 375, Uptown Campus
Reading ? 7:00 p.m. [Note early start time], Campus Center Room 375, Uptown Campus
Ghassan Zaqtan, poet, novelist, journalist, screenwriter, and playwright, is a major Palestinian poet and a leading representative of the avant-garde in Arabic literature. His most recent collection?the first to appear in English?is Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me (2012), which was translated by Fady Joudah, a Palestinian-American poet and winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition for his own collection, The Earth in the Attic (2008). A past participant in numerous panels and colloquia with leading Israeli writers on peaceful coexistence and mutual concerns, Zaqtan is also the co-founder and director of the House of Poetry in Ramallah and is currently the Director General of the Literature and Publishing Department of the Palestinian Ministry of Culture.

Note: This event has been rescheduled from April 10, 2012.

Source: http://nyswiblog.blogspot.com/2012/10/ghassan-zaqtan-on-pbs-newshour.html

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