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Series of events on Arabic literature to start on November 25, 2020 No 220/2020 from Nov 20, 2020 A new digital series in Arabic studies under the direction of Beatrice Gründler at Freie Universität Berlin will focus on Arabic-language narrative texts from the pre-modern era in the context of a global, modern consideration of literature. The transdisciplinary event series will start on November 25 with a public online lecture by Ulrich Marzolph, one of the world's leading researchers on Middle Eastern narrative traditions. Ulrich Marzolph is the author of a recently published book, 101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on Western Oral Tradition . The title of his lecture will be "The Frame Tale. Potentials and Limitations." The series Framing Narratives. New Perspectives on Premodern Textual Production in Arabic is being held in cooperation between the Cluster of Excellence "Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective" and the project Kal'la and Dimna - AnonymClassic . Narrative framing is part of both Arabic and European literary traditions.