Ibn Sina Foundation and the Orthodox Saint Tikhon Humanitarian University (OSTHU) organized and held a literary event dedicated to “the literature of expulsion”, presenting the novel “The Last Day” by Mikhail Nuaimeh. The event took place on November 10 2025 at OSTHU in the framework of the Third Festival “The Week of Orient: from Ninevia to Beirut”.
The Scientific Director of the Foundation Andrey Lukashev pronounced a welcome speech. He presented the projects of the Foundation aimed to the development of a dialogue between Islamic and Orthodox culture, thus underlining the importance of interaction between confessions.
The presentation of the novel “The Last Day” by the Lebanese writer Mikhail Nuaimeh that had been published in Russian for the first time with the assistance of the Foundation became a culmination of the event. It was held by the translator himself – Faris Nofal, a research scholar from the Department of the Islamic World Philosophy of the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
F. Nofal told about specific features of Lebanese literature in the beginning of the XX century. He spoke on the formation of the unique style of Nuaimeh thus disclosing why the novel “The Last Day” became a masterpiece of the Arab mystical and realistic prose.
The photos are provided by the Orthodox Saint Tikhon Humanitarian University (OSTHU)
