Mishkenot Sha’ananim |

Maktoob مكتوب – Arabic Literature in Hebrew and Mishkenot Sha’ananim
are pleased to invite the public to a special evening of literature from the Levant.

The Program

It Was a Long Time Ago, When Money Had Not Yet Come into the World,
a reading in Arabic and Hebrew, Prof. Yehouda Shenhav Shahrabani and Luay Watad

Literature from Palestine and the Levant: On Space and Identity
Dr. Amer Dahamshe

A Woman and a Heroine, a Hakawati performance
Actress Rawda Sliman

The evening will include Arabic folk songs performed by Mira Azer

The Maktoob Series of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute is devoted to translating Arabic literature into Hebrew and offers deep familiarity with Arabic culture and the Middle East. The series consists of canonical works in Palestinian and Arab literature translated into Hebrew by means of a unique model of collaborative work of Jews and Arabs.

The event is taking place as part of the translation workshop that is a collaboration of Maktoob and Mishkenot Sha’ananim.