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Daughter of the Bedouin’s Chief : Writing Female Identity in the Land of Prohibitions

Sponsored by:
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Arabic, Middle East Studies and North Africa Studies, and Comparative Literature
Dr. Miral Mahgoub, an Egyptian novelist and Associate Professor of Modern Arabic Literature and Middle East/Islamic Studies at the School of International Letters and Cultures at Arizona State University, will speak about her novel, The Tent (1996), a dream-like portrayal of rural Bedouin life in Egypt. Dr. Mahgoub was awarded the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature in 2010 for her novel Brooklyn Heights and was recently profiled by the New York Times: “Making the Life of a Modern Nomad into Literature” (1/4/2012).

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public

Lecture by Carol Fadda

Sponsored by:
Arabic and Middle East Studies and North Africa Studies
“Carol Fadda is an Associate Professor of English at Syracuse University. Her work on US ethnic literatures focuses on Arab-American literary studies, delineating the complexity of Arab-American communal and individual identities, particularly in light of 9/11 and its aftermath. She has published widely on gender, race, ethnicity, war, trauma, and transnational citizenship in Arab and Arab-American literary texts. Her latest book is entitled Contemporary Arab-American Literature: Transnational Reconfigurations of Citizenship and Belonging.”

Axinn Center 229

Open to the Public

Gender and language ideologies in the Arab world: Moroccan artists 'blacklisted'

Sponsored by:
Arabic and Middle East Studies and North Africa Studies
Atiqa Hachimi is an Associate Professor at University of Toronto. She is a sociolinguist and Arabic specialist whose teaching contributes to the programs for Women’s and Gender Studies and African Studies. Her research focuses on social and language change in the Arabic-speaking world, particularly in Morocco.

Axinn Center 229

Free
Open to the Public

Translating Alterity in Syria and Lebanon

Sponsored by:
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs and Arabic
We often think of translation as a curative to conflict and miscommunication, but what happens if we understand translation as a site of conflict? In this conversation between Beirut-based writer and translator Lina Mounzer and University of Chicago Professor of Arabic literature and translator Ghenwa Hayek, the speakers will seek to interrogate the connection between translation, war zones, and migration.

Twilight Auditorium 101

Open to the Public

Lecture by Yasmine Nachabe Taan

Sponsored by:
Arabic
Yasmine Nachabe Taan’s lecture will focus on the works of Abdulkader Arnaout (1936-1992), who is a Syrian modernist graphic designer and artist who is also renowned for his poetry, paintings, and typography. It will also focus on the works of Hilmi al-Tuni (1934) who is one of the Arab world’s most prominent illustrator and book designer.

Axinn Center 100

Black is Beautiful in Arabic: Radwa Ashour and Al-Aswad al-Jamil

Sponsored by:
Arabic
Michelle Hartman, Associate Professor of Arabic Literature at the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University, will introduce the feminist activist intellectual and novelist Radwa Ashour in the context of Egyptian Black-Arab solidarity in the 1970s, and the literary production that expresses it. It also develops an analytical framework to think through issues of race by using the insights of translation studies to explore one of Ashour’s works, her novel Al-Rihla and its translation into English as The Journey.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public

Black is Beautiful in Arabic: Radwa Ashour and Al-Aswad al-Jamil

Sponsored by:
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs and Arabic
This lecture introduces the feminist activist intellectual and novelist Radwa Ashour in the context of Egyptian Black-Arab solidarity in the 1970s, and the literary production that expresses it. It also develops an analytical framework to think through issues of race by using the insights of translation studies to explore one of Ashour’s works, her novel Al-Rihla and its translation into English as The Journey.
Closed to the Public