Sección: 8. South-South Translations (Wail Hassan) in dialogue with the author of The Enigma of Qaf (Alberto Mussa) | Brazil and Palestine: Sources of Identification / Brasil e Palestina: Fontes de Identificação | USP Extensão

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This class takes the form of an open conversation with Alberto Mussa, a Brazilian novelist of Lebanese and Palestinian descent, and Waïl Hassan, an Egyptian-American professor of comparative literature and the translator of Mussa’s novel O enigma de Qaf into Arabic as لغز القاف. Mussa will begin with some remarks, followed by comments from Hassan, then the floor will be opened for questions from the students.

Reading Assignment:
MUSSA, Alberto. O enigma de Qaf. Rio de Janeiro: Record, 2004.
- Seleccionar actividad Alberto Mussa. O Enigma de Qaf.
  
  Alberto Mussa. O Enigma de Qaf. Archivo
- Seleccionar actividad Alberto Mussa. The Enigma of Qaf (in Arabic). Translated by Wail Hassan.
  
  Alberto Mussa. The Enigma of Qaf (in Arabic). Translated by Wail Hassan. Archivo
- Seleccionar actividad Wail Hassan. Translational Literature and the Pleasures of Exile.
  
  Wail Hassan. Translational Literature and the Pleasures of Exile. Archivo
- Seleccionar actividad Wail Hassan. Arab-Brazilian Literature: Alberto Mussa's Arabian Ode and South-South dialogue. Alif, n.31, Cairo, 2011 (in Arabic).
  
  Wail Hassan. Arab-Brazilian Literature: Alberto Mussa's Arabian Ode and South-South dialogue. Alif, n.31, Cairo, 2011 (in Arabic). Archivo