C11: Voices from the Periphery: Arabic Literature between the Ages of Imperialism and Globalism II

Seminar Leader: Issa J. Boullata, McGill University

Friday, April 16, 2:00 – 4:00 PM, Gresham 1

Carol Bardenstein, University of Michigan: “Figures of Diasporic Cultural Production: Some Entries from the Palestinian Lexicon”

Salah D. Hassan, Michigan State University: “Refugees Return: The Representation of Palestinians in Said’s After the Last Sky and Khalidi’s Before Their Diaspora”

Lital Levy, University of California – Berkeley: “Modes of Enlightenment: Jewish Writers in Egypt and Iraq, 1870-1950”

Lucy Stone McNeece, University of Connecticut: “Outlaw Images: The Ideographic Imagination in Modern Arabic Literature and Film”

Saturday, April 17, 2:00 – 4:00 PM, Gresham 1

Issa J. Boullata, McGill University: “Rabi’ Jabir and His Novel Yusuf al-Inglizi”

Francesca Prevedello, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice: “Sonallah Ibrahim’s Novel Nagmat Aghustus”

Jonathan Smolin, Harvard University : “ The Killer, the Inspector and the Crime: Investigating Moroccan Detective Fiction”

Emad Mirmotahari, University of California – Los Angeles: “Islam as Specter in Hedayat’s Blind Owl”