Reading Between the Lines/Languages: Moroccan Poetry in Text, Translation, and Performance

A program of readings (with translation) by Moroccan poets Idriss Aissa and Driss Mesnaoui. With commentary and critique from Omar Berrada (writer/translator, Dar Al-Ma’mun), Alexander Elinson (Arabic, Hunter College), and Deborah Kapchan (Performance Studies, Anthropology, Music, and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, NYU).