From Hafiz and Goethe to the Poets of A New...
29.6.19Bradford Literature Festival: Bradford Cathedral, 29 June At this Bradford Literature Festival event in the beautiful Bradford Cathedral, Professor Eric Ormsby introduced the Divans of Hafiz and Goethe, and then…
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Goethe’s West-Eastern Divan 200 years on
26.6.19BRISMES Conference, Leeds, 26 June The panel explored a remarkable 19th century work of inter-disciplinarity on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of its publication: Johann Wolfgangvon Goethe’s West-Eastern Diva….
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Book Launch – The Image Debate: Figural Representation in Islam...
21.6.1921 June 2019, 7 pm, at the Alumni Lecture Theatre, SOAS The Image Debate: Figural Representation in Islam and Across the World is a collection of thirteen essays which examines…
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A New Divan: A Lyrical Dialogue between East and West
24.5.19Hay-on-Wye Literary Festival, 24 May ‘A New Divan: A lyrical dialogue between East & West’ This event featured Nujoom Alghanem and Paul Farley reading from A New Divan and discussing…
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