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Safe Corridor

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Middle East Centre Booktalk
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This seminar discusses the inaugural Bait AlGhasham DarArab International Translation Prize winner, ‘Safe Corridor’; a bold, unforgettable novel of war, imagination, and survival.
Kurdish-Syrian novelist, Jan Dost; translator, Professor Marilyn Booth; Director of the Bait AlGhasham DarArab International Translation Prize, Ali Al Mujaini; and Founder and Director of DarArab for Publishing & Translation, Nasser Al Badri, all discuss Dost’s novel ‘Safe Corridor’, with Professor of Turkish Literature and Fellow of St Antony’s College, Laurent Mignon, as Chair.

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Slavery, Abolition and Islam: Debating Freedom in the Islamic Tradition

In this Contemporary Islamic Studies seminar, Dr Haroon Bashir discusses his new book ‘Slavery, Abolition and Islam: Debating Freedom in the Islamic Tradition’ published in January 2025 by Oxford University Press
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Middle East Centre Booktalk
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Jan Dost
Marilyn Booth
Ali Al Mujaini
Nasser Al Badri
Laurent Mignon
Keywords
kurdish literature
Arabic literature
syria
middle east
war
conflict
refugees
displacement
fiction
novel
translation
Department: Middle East Centre
Date Added: 11/11/2025
Duration: 00:58:52

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