Join us on December 18, 2014, from 6:00 – 7:00 PM, at the Kinokuniya Bookstore to celebrate LAL at the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute’s first public program in Dubai, where LAL General Editor Philip F. Kennedy will be moderating a conversation on: how LAL came about, how it selects its titles, what’s to come, the critical importance of such projects in making a deep and rich tradition accessible to all, and the challenges facing translators in the 21st century. Click here to register for the event.

Moderated By:
Philip Kennedy, General Editor, Library of Arabic Literature and Associate Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, NYUAD

Speakers:
James Montgomery, Executive Editor, Library of Arabic Literature and Sir Thomas Adams Professor of Arabic, University of Cambridge
Shawkat Toorawa, Executive Editor, Library of Arabic Literature and Associate Professor of Arabic Literature and Islamic Studies, Cornell University
Joseph E. Lowry, Editor, Library of Arabic Literature and Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Chip Rossetti, Managing Editor, Library of Arabic Literature

We’ll see you there!

Chip Rossetti
Managing Editor, Library of Arabic Literature

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