In the Fall of 2008, the Writers Institute began digitizing it's entire archive — 25 years of presentations by nearly 900 novelists, journalists, poets, playwrights and filmmakers, totalling more than 2,000 hours of readings, seminars and interviews. Here are some highlights of our most recent visiting writers.
EXPLORE VISITING WRITERS VIDEO ARCHIVES: The NYSWI video archive will be updated periodically. Check here for new additions.
Ghassan Zaqtan and Fady Joudah New York State Writers Institute
October 16, 2012
"The Arabic language did not undergo fundamental changes in the manner of so many European languages have undergone. . . " (4:01)