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The following report is conducted by the Culture for All Service as a part of the project Multilingualism and diversity as a resource in the cultural field – employment and integration through literature in the Nordic countries. The project is funded by the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture as part of a larger project initiated during Finland’s presidency of the Nordic Council of Ministers in 2016. The project is based on previous collaboration between the Culture for All Service, several organizations in the Nordic literary field and projects in which language diversity or freedom of expression have been especially present. As a part of the previous work Culture for All collected information about the position of non-dominant language authors in Nordic institutions and published the results in the report Wandering Words. Comparisons of the position of writers who write in non-dominant languages in Nordic support structures of literature (2016). This report, A View of the Conditions of Arabic Literature in the Nordic Region, relies on the findings of the previous report and focuses on the case of Arabic-Nordic literature. The report aims to offer a view of Arabic literature written or published in the Nordic region. It also aims to offer information on the social conditions of the authors and the obstacles they face when publishing their works. In the context of this report, Arabic-Nordic literature refers to literature produced or published in Arabic by persons/organizations residing and operating in the Nordic region. The report uses the term ‘Arabic-Nordic literary scene’ to refer to a scattered network of authors, publishers, literary scholars, critics, literature platforms and associations that operate either collectively or individually in and from the Nordic region. The emphasis of this report lays on the assembly of the Arabic-Nordic authors, publishers (in all forms) and literary networks (conventional and non-formal) that make up the Arabic-Nordic literature scene, operating in an unrecognized parallel platform of knowledge production in the Nordic countries.
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