Her Own Devices: Language and Craft in “The One-Thousand and One Nights”

Yasmine Seale is a writer and translator from Arabic and French. Her essays on books and art have appeared in Harper’s, The Nation, the Times Literary Supplement, Apollo, frieze and elsewhere. Her first translated book, Aladdin, came out from W. W. Norton in 2018 and she is currently working on a new translation of The Thousand and One Nights—the first by a woman–for the same publisher. Her lecture will discuss women, storytelling, craft and craftiness in the Nights. All are welcome: reception to follow.