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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

Arabic Department - Commencement 2022 Remarks and Awards

Sponsored by:
Arabic
Remarks and awards for seniors and their families in the Mahaney Arts Center (MAC) room 126, during the joint reception ongoing from 4:30 - 6:00 p.m. in the lower lobby of the Mahaney Arts Center.

Mahaney Arts Center 126

African-American Literature in Arabic

Sponsored by:
Arabic
Dr. Mona Kareem will discuss her translation of Octavia Butler’s masterpiece Kindred (1979) into Arabic.

Co-sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies, Black Studies, the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Center for Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity, English and American Literatures, and Literary Studies.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public

Permission to Converse: Laws, Violence, and Roadblocks to Palestinian Political Expression

Sponsored by:
Arabic, History of Arts and Architecture, History, and Students for Justice in Palestine
Palestinians living on different sides of the Green Line make up approximately one-fifth of Israeli citizens and about four-fifths of the population of the West Bank. Activists in both groups assert that they share a single political struggle for national liberation. Yet, obstacles inhibit their ability to speak to each other and as a collective. Geopolitical boundaries fragment Palestinians into ever smaller groups.

Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

Closed to the Public

Jewish Studies: Moriel Rothman-Zecher '11 Reading from his novel, "Sadness is a White Bird"

Sponsored by:
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Arabic, Religion, Creative Writing, Hebrew, Middle East Studies and North Africa Studies, and Jewish Studies
Moriel Rothman-Zecher, ‘11, returns to Middlebury to read from his first novel, Sadness Is a White Bird, a coming-of-age novel of which the Jerusalem Post has said that it “conveys the complexities of Israeli and Palestinian life with passion, nuance and tenderness…” Rothman-Zecher “has shown a fearlessness and vulnerability on these pages that speak to his ability to explore difficult terrain without feeling the need to draw any neat or concise conclusions. It shuns certainty and is open, nuanced, inconclusive and often contradictory. Just like Israeli reality.”

Axinn Center Abernethy Room (221)

Towards a Palestinian Third Cinema

Sponsored by:
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Arabic, Film & Media Culture, Middle East Studies and North Africa Studies, and Gender, Sexuality, & Fem Studies
In 1970 the filmmakers Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin were commissioned by Fatah (with funding from the Arab League) to create a film about the Palestinian Revolution. The footage they shot eventually became the well known essay film Ici et Ailleurs. In 1971 Masao Adachi and Koji Wakamatsu visited the region to shoot footage for their film Japanese Red Army/PFLP Declaration of World War. These works have received considerable critical attention since they first appeared.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public