EVENTS

The Power of the Pen: Does Writing Change Anything?

Salman Rushdie
Margaret Atwood
Nuruddin Farah
Jonathan Franzen
Antonio Muñoz Molina

Crossover Artists: Writing in Another Language

Elif Shafak
Minae Mizumura
Shan Sa

Inappropriate Appropriation: A Believer Nighttime Event

Rick Moody
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Patrick Roth
Tsitsi Dangarembga
Minae Mizumura
Katja Lange-Muller
Yoko Tawada

Confronting the Worst: Writers and Catastrophe

Svetlana Alexievich
Elena Poniatowska
François Bizot
Ryszard Kapucinski
Carolin Emcke
Philip Gourevitch

Africa and the World: Writers at Home and Away

Breyten Breytenbach
Achmat Dangor
Elizabeth Alexander
Tsitsi Dangarembga
Zakes Mda

Quixote at 400: A Tribute

Salman Rushdie
Laura Restrepo
Antonio Muñoz Molina
Margaret Atwood
Paul Auster
Claudio Magris
Norman Manea

The Way We Love Now: Who Wrote the Book of Sex?

Wayne Koestenbaum
Elif Shafak
Antoine Audouard
Natsuo Kirino
Meir Shalev
Hanif Kureishi
Peter Stamm

International Noir: Breaking Out of Crime Time
Robert Polito
Jakob Arjouni
Natsuo Kirino
Luc Sante
Paco Ignacio Taibo

Literature and Power: Writing About Politics

John Ralston Saul
Oksana Zabuzhko
Shashi Tharoor
Tomás Eloy Martinez
Francine Prose
Bernard-Henri Levy


CONVERSATIONS 

Postcolonial Passages
Assia Djebar & Lyonel Trouillot

Enormous Changes 
Ha Jin & Eliot Weinberger

Reinventing Home
Michael Ondaatje & Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

In Search of the Sensual
Hanan al-Shaykh & Salman Rushdie

Continental Divides
Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton & Cornelia Funke

Power Struggles
Tsitsi Dangarembga & Achmat Dangor

A History of Trauma
Khaled Mattawa, Hanan al-Shaykh, & Fadhil al-Azzawi  


POETRY 

History of My Face
Khaled Mattawa

Non-Military Statements
Dunya Mikhail

The First Novel
Shan Sa 

The Last Iraq 
Fadhil al-Azzawi

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