Artist in Exile: Mukhtar Shehata’s “Makaki de Afrika” (Egypt) with Translator Melissa Krawczyk

Name: Artist in Exile: Mukhtar Shehata’s “Makaki de Afrika” (Egypt) with Translator Melissa Krawczyk
Start: 2026-08-23T15:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-08-23T16:00:00-04:00
Location: City of Asylum

Schedule

Sun Aug 23 2026 at 03:00 pm to 04:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

City of Asylum | Pittsburgh, PA

City of Asylum Writer-in-Residence shares a preview of his forthcoming novel, a multi-generational mystery blending Brazilian, Syrian, Polish-Jewish, and West African Muslim threads, in conversation with the work’s Arabic-to-English translator.