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Time and place: –, OCEH Lab, 4th floor, P.A. Munchs hus, University of Oslo

This meeting of the Al-Ard Book Club invites participants to read and discuss The Law of Inheritance by the Egyptian author Yasser Abdel Latif (2018).

Time and place: –, OCEH Lab, 4th floor, P.A. Munchs hus, University of Oslo

This meeting of the Al-Ard Book Club invites participants to read and discuss Of Loss and Lavender by the Iraqi author Sinan Antoon (2026).

Time and place: –, OCEH Lab, 4th floor, P.A. Munchs hus, University of Oslo

This meeting of the Al-Ard Book Club invites participants to read and discuss Honey Hunger by the Omani author Zahran Alqasmi (2017)

Time and place: –, OCEH Lab, 4th floor, P.A. Munchs hus, University of Oslo

This meeting of the Al-Ard Book Club invites participants to read and discuss The Drowning by the Sudanese author Hammour Ziada (2018).

Time and place: –, OCEH Lab, 4th floor, P.A. Munchs hus, University of Oslo

This meeting of the Al-Ard Book Club invites participants to read and discuss The Bleeding of the Stone by the Libyan author Ibrahim al-Koni (1990).

Time and place: –, OCEH Lab, 4th floor, P.A. Munchs hus, University of Oslo

This meeting of the Al-Ard Book Club invites participants to read and discuss The Tiller of Waters by the Lebanese author Hoda Barakat (1998).

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Time and place: –, OCEH Lab, 4th floor, P.A. Munchs hus, University of Oslo

This meeting opens the new 2026–2027 season of the Al-Ard Book Club, inviting participants to read and discuss My First and Only Love by the Palestinian author Sahar Khalifeh (2021).

Time and place: –, OCEH Lab and Zoom

This meeting of the Al-Ard Book Club invites participants to read and discuss the novel Where the Wind Calls Home by the Syrian author Samar Yazbek (2024). The original Arabic title is Maqām al-Riḥ and was published in 2021.

Time and place: –, OCEH Lab, 4th floor, P.A. Munchs hus, University of Oslo, and on Zoom

This first meeting of the Al-Ard Book Club invites participants to read and discuss excerpts from Abdel Rahman Munif’s novel Cities of Salt (Mudun al-Milḥ, 1984).