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

Mukhtar Shehata shares a preview of his forthcoming novel, a multi-generational mystery blending Brazilian, Syrian, Polish-Jewish, and West African Muslim threads.

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.
Sunday, August 23rd 2026 Doors 2:30 PM Show 3:00 PM