Join us for an engaging virtual conversation on "Empty Cages" by Fatma Qandil, the 2022 Winner of the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature. An urgent and raw confessional of memory and family and all that is lost and won in one woman's lifetime.
The event will feature award-winning translator Adam Talib, who brought the novel into English with nuance and depth, alongside Karam Youssef, publisher of the Arabic edition and founder of Al Kotob Khan publishing house.
The discussion will be moderated by literary critic and editor Marcia Lynx Qualey, founder of ArabLit.
About "Empty Cages":
The discovery of an old tin of chocolates, its contents long ago devoured, marks the entry into this intimate story that reaches back through a lifetime of memories in search of self and home, with the relationship between mother and daughter at its core.
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"Astonishing . . . exceptional . . . lit from within by unexpected humor . . . Qandil exposes the faulty wiring at the heart of an ordinary Cairo family while offering readers a memorable immersion in the city's culture during the second half of the 20th century."—Shelf Awareness
"An unflinchingly honest portrayal of the relationships of violence that lie beneath the surface of an ordinary, middle-class Egyptian family."—Dina Heshmat, American University in Cairo
Date: Wednesday, 13 August 2025
Time: 7pm Cairo (GMT+3) | 5pm London | 12pm New York
Register here to attend via Zoom:
https://bit.ly/Register-EmptyCages
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