{"id":276976,"date":"2010-03-02T21:10:50","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T21:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2010\/03\/02\/scenes-from-the-arab-booker-announcement\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T16:41:03","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:41:03","slug":"scenes-from-the-arab-booker-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2010\/03\/02\/scenes-from-the-arab-booker-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"&#34;Scenes&#34; from the Arab Booker Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Abu Dhabi International Book Fair officially kicked off this morning with a slew of professional and cultural events, including a conversation with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adbookfair.com\/cms\/archives\/915\">Azar Nafisi<\/a> and the announcement of a new distribution company serving the Arab World. (More on that later. Much later.) <\/p>\n<p>Fair aside though, the big news of the evening was the announcement that Abdo Khal won this year&#8217;s Arab Booker award for <em>Spewing Sparks as Big as Castles.<\/em> (And yes, I realize that this title is a bit mistranslated. Can you really &#8220;spew&#8221; sparks? Do you want to? And as Heidi pointed out, &#8220;Big as Castles&#8221; is verbatim slang that just doesn&#8217;t quite work in English . . . ) Sounds like a potentially interesting book, and although I totally wanted Rabee Jaber to win for <em>America<\/em> (if only you could see him&#8212;he looked so cold and hungry, and deserving), all congrats to Abdo Khal, who seems like an interesting guy. <\/p>\n<p>My attempt to document this event was a total fail though. Here&#8217;s the picture I took:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/images\/440.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Not only did I get up there to take the picture after everyone dispersed, but Khal is obscured by a professional photographer (the only person in focus), and my finger is over the minuscule iPhone lens. Nice. I&#8217;ll try harder tomorrow at the Sheikh Zayed Book Awards. (Which are even <em>more<\/em> opulent. And take place at the Emirates Palace . . .)<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad_banner\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/publishingperspectives.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/images\/378.jpg\"  \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Abu Dhabi International Book Fair officially kicked off this morning with a slew of professional and cultural events, including a conversation with Azar Nafisi and the announcement of a new distribution company serving the Arab World. (More on that later. Much later.) Fair aside though, the big news of the evening was the announcement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[31286],"class_list":["post-276976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-adibf-2010"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349386,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276976\/revisions\/349386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}