BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.7//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6009@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200716T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200716T190000 DTSTAMP:20200708T153612Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/liverpool-arab-arts-festival-ara bs-a-3000-year-history-of-peoples-tribes-and-empires/ SUMMARY:: Liverpool Arab Arts Festival: Arabs: A 3\,000 Year History of Peo ples\, Tribes and Empires DESCRIPTION:\nArabs: A 3\,000 Year History of Peoples\, Tribes and Empires\ n\n\nThursday 16 July\, 6:00 pm - 7:00 pmFree\n\nTalksLiteratureTim Mackin tosh-Smith with Denyse Woods\nWatch Online\nSign up here to receive the link\n\n‘He seems incapable of writing a dull sentence\, and in him the scholar\, the linguist and the storyteller swap hats with marvellous speed ’. New York Times\n\nAcclaimed historian\, Arabist and traveller Tim Ma ckintosh-Smith delivers a very special event at Liverpool Arab Arts Festi val\, reading from his acclaimed book exploring three millennia of Arab cu lture\, history and people\, and in conversation with Irish novelist\, De nyse Woods. \n\nHaving been based in the Arab world for over a third of a century – principally in the Yemeni capital Sana’a – Mackintosh-Smi th is one of the most significant writers dedicated to a modern study of A rabic culture and people.\n\nA fan of Arabic travel literature\, he is the author of several books of his own travels. His trilogy on Ibn Battutah ( Travels with a Tangerine\, The Hall of a Thousand Columns\, and Landfall s) retraces the Moroccanʼs wanderings around three continents. He has co- written and presented a BBC series on Ibn Battutah\, described by the Guar dian as ‘marvellous\, memorable television’.\n\nArabs: A 3\,000 Year H istory of Peoples\, Tribes and Empires is his most recent book. Published by Yale University Press it is\, according to the Spectator\, ‘a book o f vast scope and stunning insight\; ‘it ‘rebalances’ Arab history\, seeing Islam as part of it\, not the start of it’.\n\nTime differences  mean this will be a pre-recorded event\, however we will be encouraging q uestions to be sent in to us at LAAF ahead of the event. Please email adm in@arabicartsfestival.co.uk with any questions you have for Tim and Denys e by Monday 15 June 2020.\n\n \;\n\n\n\nTim Mackintosh-Smith\n\nTim Ma ckintosh-Smith is a fan of Arabic travel literature\, and the author of s everal books of his own travels. Of these\, his trilogy on Ibn Battutah (T ravels with a Tangerine\, The Hall of a Thousand Columns\, and Landfalls ) retraces the Moroccanʼs wanderings around three continents. Timʼs work has earned him the 1998 Thomas Cook/Daily Telegraph Travel Book Award an d\, appropriately\, the Ibn Battutah Prize of Honour\, awarded in 2010 by the Arab Centre for Geographical Literature. Tim has delivered the Hamilt on A.R. Gibb Lectures at Harvard\, and his writing has been anthologized i n a number of collections\, from The Picador Book of Journeys to The Ho ward Marks Book of Dope Stories. His most recent work\, published by Yale University Press\, is Arabs: A 3\,000-Year History of Peoples\, Tribes an d Empires – ʻa book\,ʼ according to the Spectator\, ʻof vast scope and stunning insightʼ\; it ‘rebalances’ Arab history\, seeing Islam a s part of it\, not the start of it. He is currently at work on a new editi on and translation of Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadis Kitab al-Ifadah\, an eye -witness account of late twelfth-century Egypt and its devastating famines .  Tim is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain\, and an emeritus Senior Fellow of the New York University Library of Arabic Liter ature. He has been based for more than a third of a century\, through thic k and thin\, in the Yemeni capital Sanaʼa\, but since late 2019 has been ʻon sabbaticalʼ in Kuala Lumpur.\n\nDenyse Woods\n\nDenyse Woods is an I rish novelist\, based in Cork. Three of her novels are set in the Arab wor ld\, including the critically-acclaimed Overnight to Innsbruck (Lilliput Press) and Like Nowhere Else (Penguin Ireland). Her sixth novel\, Of S ea and Sand (Hoopoe Fiction\, American University in Cairo Press) is set in Oman and Iraq. Denyse is the recipient of an Arts Council of Ireland Li terature Bursary and she has been awarded residencies in Shanghai\, Liznja n\, Paris and Ernest Hemingway’s studio in Key West. She is the former d irector of the West Cork Literary Festival.\n\nImage: Arabs: A 3\,000 Year History of Peoples\, Tribes and Empires. Yale University Press\, 2019.\n\ nBook Tickets ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2020/07/Website-banner-Arabs-cover-768x512-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200329T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR