Sat Nov 7 · 6pm
Fireside Chat with Rim Battal & Liza Tripp
Rim Battal and her translator Liza Tripp give a bilingual reading from I'll Look Myself in the Eyes, Battal's autobiographical novel about a 17-year-old in Marrakesh whose mother, catching her smoking, demands a virginity test, and talk about translating culture and sensitive language. The French original won the 2025 prix de la littérature arabe des lycéens. Battal, a poet and journalist, lives between Paris and Rabat.