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Lunch & Learn: Aisha Dad on Anarkali

Lunch & Learn with Aisha Dad Through the Looking Glass: The Narrative Performance of Anarkali• Free Online Event • Thursday, March 26, 2026 • 12:30–1:30 p.m. ET • Online via Zoom Register Now! Join the New Alexandria Foundation for a lively conversation with Aisha Dad, author of Through the Looking Glass: The Narrative Performance of Anarkali. In this session, Dad explores how Anarkali’s narrative lives through performance and re-performance across architecture, travel… Read more

Announcements

The Odyssey with Bruce King — Saturdays this April

The Odyssey with Bruce King 4-Week Online Seminar offered by the New Alexandria Foundation Saturdays 1:00-4:00 pm ET (with breaks) 4/4, 4/11, 4/18, 4/25 Register Now! From the smoking ruins of Troy to the long-awaited homecoming in Ithaka, Odysseus leaves a wake of death, sorrow, and reinvention. As a hero and trickster, he slips in and out of identities—king, husband, father, son, stranger, storyteller. Wherever Odysseus goes, trouble follows, for… Read more

Book Club

Book Club | March 2026: The Kalevala 6–15

“I am ancient Wainamoinen,Friend and fellow of the waters,I, the famous wisdom- singer;went to woo a Northland maiden,Maiden from the dismal Darkland,Quickly galloped on my journey,Riding on the plain of ocean.I arrived one morning early,At the breaking of the day-dawn.” In March, we continue to read the epic, The Kalevala, from Rune 6 to the end of Rune 15.  The gathering will take place on March 18, 2026 at 1:00 p.m.… Read more

Announcements,  Video

Conversations with Gregory Nagy

We are delighted to share a series of Office Hours video discussions with Professor Gregory Nagy, Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. In these videos, the ordeals of becoming a hero are explored through the greatest works of Ancient Greek literature. In these ‘Ancient Greek Heroes’ Office Hours videos, Gregory Nagy and his colleagues provide additional explanations about the content and… Read more

Topic for Discussion

Best of all things is water

When Pindar says “Water is best, (ἄριστον μὲν ὕδωρ) and gold, like a blazing fire in the night, stands out supreme of all lordly wealth” in Olympian 1, he is not wrong. Life happens around water. It is hard to find an example that water is not present in our daily lives. Water cleans, nourishes, and heals. Who wouldn’t enjoy a nice bath? How about the ancient Greeks? In this… Read more