International Writers Series: Iman Mersal In-Person
Join the International Writers Series for a reading and conversation with Egyptian writer and professor Iman Mersal, who will discuss her award-winning book Traces of Enayat (Transit Books, 2024).
Traces of Enayat is a luminous biographical detective story in which Mersal retraces the life and afterlife of a forgotten writer, Enayat al-Zayyat, though interviews with family members and friend, even tracking down the apartments, schools, and sanatoriums where Enayat spent her days. As Mersal maps two simultaneous psychogeographies-- from the glamor of golden-age Egyptian cinema to the Cairo of Mersal's own past-- a remarkable portrait emerges of two women striving to live on their own terms. With Traces of Enayat, Mersal embraces the reciprocal relationship between a text and its reader, between past and present, between author and subject.
Free and open to all, registration requested.
This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies, the Department of Comparative Literature and Thought, and the Center for Literary Studies.
- Date:
- Thursday, February 13, 2025
- Time:
- 5:30pm - 7:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Central Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Olin Library, Ginkgo Room
- Campus:
- Danforth Campus
- Audience:
- Community Faculty Graduate Students Library Staff Staff Undergraduate Students