Moderated by Matthew L. Keegan

What Makes a Good Friend? Analysis of the Two Syriac Translations of "The Cat and the Mouse" 
Jan J. van Ginkel, Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Freie Universität Berlin 

Naṣr Allāh Munshī’s preface to a Persian Kalīla wa-Dimna
Theodore S. Beers, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Freie Universität Berlin 

"The Book of the Panther and the Fox" and other siblings of Kalīla wa-Dimna
Isabel Toral, Senior PostDoc Researcher, Deputy Head of the ERC project, Freie Universität Berlin 

Discussant: Lara Harb, Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University

This workshop will be followed by Q&A.