What is the Point of Books in the Midst of Wartime Chaos?
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: September 22, 2017, 19:00 – 21:00
For Ghias Mousli to reach Prague, he has to leave Homs by taxi, cross a war zone and hope that he doesn’t miss his flight from Beirut due to holdups at the border. He is one of the few citizens of the war-torn city who can travel to Europe freely – thanks to having Slovak citizenship.
As well as his work as a doctor, surgeon Ghias Mousli, who studied medicine at Charles University in the late 1960s, is a literary translator. Over almost three decades he has translated numerous Czech and Slovak works of literature into Arabic.
He is coming to Prague for a residency at the Czech Literary Centre.
The evening will be hosted by Jáchym Topol, whose novel Noční práce (Nightwork) is currently being translated by Mousli.