Jonathan Maurice Ross

On 20 October 2018 we hosted Mehmet Hakkı Suçin to discuss Nâzım Hikmet’s influence on Arabic poetry.

In his lecture at Boğaziçi University, Mehmet Hakkı Suçin, a specialist in translation studies, Arabic literature and creative drama, discussed the Iraqi, Palestinian and Egyptian poets influenced by Nâzım Hikmet’s life story as well as by his poetry. The lecture, which assessed in quantitative and qualitative terms Hikmet’s poems translated into Arabic and the elegies written for him, was moderated by Jonathan Ross, head of the Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies at Boğaziçi University.

Adapted from the page of the Nâzım Hikmet Culture and Art Research Centre at Boğaziçi University (nazimhikmetmerkezi.com). The lecture is in Turkish.