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BOOK TALK: THE BAGHDAD CLOCK A Reading and Conversation with Award-Winning Iraqi Novelist Shahad Al Rawi and Translator Luke Leafgren

October 18, 2019 @ 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

  • « King Juan Carlos Chair CRISTINA PATO | A CONVERSATION WITH CRISTINA PATO AND KENNETH S. KOSIK: An Invisible Ancestry and the Unquiet Genes of the Brain
  • DAY 1: FIFTH ANNUAL INDO-AMERICAN ARTS COUNCIL (IAAC) LITERARY FESTIVAL »

Baghdad, 1991. In the midst of the first Gulf War, a young Iraqi girl huddles with her neighbors in an air raid shelter. There, she meets Nadia. The two girls quickly become best friends and together they imagine a world not torn apart by civil war, sharing their dreams, their hopes and their desires, and their first loves. But as they grow older and the bombs continue to fall, the international sanctions bite and friends begin to flee the country, the girls must face the fact that their lives will never be the same again. This poignant debut novel will spirit readers away to a world they know only from the television, revealing just what it is like to grow up in a city that is disappearing in front of your eyes, and showing how in the toughest times children build up the greatest resilience.

 

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Shahad Al Rawi was born in Baghdad in 1986. She is a writer and a novelist. The Baghdad Clock is her first novel. It was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction and went through three printings in the first months of publication. She is currently completing a PhD in Anthropology in Dubai.

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Luke Leafgren received his PhD in Comparative Literature from Harvard University in 2012, after taking BA degrees in English and theology from Columbia University and Oxford University. He has translated several novels from Arabic into English, including Najwa Barakat’s Oh, Salaam! (Interlink Books). He teaches Arabic at Harvard University, where he also serves as assistant dean of Harvard College. He is an avid sailor and designed the StandStand portable standing desk.

Co-sponsored by the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute.

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Date:
October 18, 2019
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12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
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https://as.nyu.edu/neareaststudies/events/fall-2019-/the-baghdad-clock--a-reading-and-conversation-with-award-winning.html

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NYU Abu Dhabi
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Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies
255 Sullivan St.
New York, NY 10012 United States
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  • « King Juan Carlos Chair CRISTINA PATO | A CONVERSATION WITH CRISTINA PATO AND KENNETH S. KOSIK: An Invisible Ancestry and the Unquiet Genes of the Brain
  • DAY 1: FIFTH ANNUAL INDO-AMERICAN ARTS COUNCIL (IAAC) LITERARY FESTIVAL »
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