Always Almost: Approaching the 1001 Nights (Part of the 2024 World Languages & Literatures “Big Fat Books” Symposium)

Yasmine Seale’s work includes poetry, translation, criticism and visual art. She studied literature and languages in Paris and Oxford, where she also did graduate work in Ottoman history. Her writing has appeared in Harper’s, The Nation, Paris Review, the Times Literary Supplement and elsewhere. She is the author, with Robin Moger, of Agitated Air: Poems after Ibn Arabi (Tenement Press). Among her translations from Arabic are The Annotated Arabian Nights (W. W. Norton) and Something Evergreen Called Life, a collection of poems by Rania Mamoun (Action Books). She is currently a Fellow of the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, where she is completing a translation of The Dove’s Collar by Ibn Hazm, an essay on the nature of love written in 11th-century Cordoba.

Sponsored by: The Department of World Languages & Literatures, The Department of Romance Studies, The BU Poetry Reading Series, The Associate Dean of the Faculty for Humanities, College of Arts & Sciences, The Center for European Studies, LGBTQIA+ Center for Faculty & Staff, The BU Arts Initiative

When 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm on Friday, April 5, 2024
Building CAS, 725 Commonwealth Avenue
Room 306
Fees Free
Speakers Yasmine Seale