A3: Voices from the Periphery: Arabic Literature between the Ages of Imperialism and Globalism I

Seminar Leader: Hussein Kadhim, Dartmouth College

Friday, April 16, 8:15 – 10:15 AM, Grande Ballroom 3

Muhsin J. al-Musawi, Columbia University: “Narrating Identity Formation: The Poetics of Predicament”

Suzanne Stetkevych, Indiana University: “Imperialisms and Identities: Ahmad Shawqi’s Nahj al-Burdah”

Yaseen Noorani, Edinburgh University: “Counterhegemony and the Poetic Image in the Arabic Free Verse Movement”

Saturday, April 17, 8:15 – 10:15 AM, Grande Ballroom 3

Amal Amireh, George Mason University: “Willful Forgetfulness: The Disappearance of Women in Ahlam Mosteghanemi’s Memory in the Flesh”

Khadidiatou Gueye, Pennsylvania State University: “The Ebbs and Flows of Female Exile in Malika Mokeddem’s Of Dreams and Assassin”

Clarissa Burt, United States Naval Academy: “The Peripherality of Women of Voice and Vision: Cassandra, Zarqa’ al-Yammah, Sappho, Layla al-Akhyaliyyah”

Ikram Masmoudi, Princeton University: “Depicting and Challenging War in the Arabic Novel”

Sunday, April 18, 8:15 – 10:15 AM, Grande Ballroom 3

Karim Hamdy and Laura Rice, Oregon State University: “The Bedouin-Beldi Debate: Imperialism, Globalism, and Gender in Folk Poetry”

Hussein Kadhim, Dartmouth College: “Loss and Memory in Abd al-Wahhab al-Bayati’s A Song to My Son Ali”

Howard Yuen Fung Choy, “Muslims - Minority Nationality in China: Zhang Chengzhi’s History of the Soul”