<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">------------------------------</span><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">------------------------------</span><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">------------</span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Arabic-L: Thu 17 Oct 2013</span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <</span><a href="mailto:dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu" style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif" target="_blank">dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu</a><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">></span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">[To post messages to the list, send them to </span><a href="mailto:arabic-l@byu.edu" style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif" target="_blank">arabic-l@byu.edu</a><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">]</span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">[To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to</span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<a href="mailto:listserv@byu.edu" style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif" target="_blank">listserv@byu.edu</a><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> with first line reading:</span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> unsubscribe arabic-l ]</span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">-------------------------</span><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Directory---------------------</span><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">---------------</span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">1) Subject: </span><font face="arial, sans-serif">CFP Teaching Modern Arabic Lit in Translation</font><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">-------------------------</span><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Messages----------------------</span><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">-------------</span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">1)</span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Date: </span><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">17 Oct 2013</span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">From: </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">KateC Wilson <<a href="mailto:wilson.katec@gmail.com" target="_blank">wilson.katec@gmail.com</a>></span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Subject: </span><font face="arial, sans-serif">CFP Teaching Modern Arabic Lit in Translation</font><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Call for Essay Proposals for Volume on Teaching Modern Arabic Literature in</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Translation</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Essay proposals are invited for a volume in the MLA’s Options for Teaching</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">series entitled *Teaching Modern Arabic Literature in Translation*, to be</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">edited by Michelle Hartman. This volume is designed to offer a broad range</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">of ways to think through the teaching of Arabic literature in translation</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">in English. Essays will address the challenges of teaching Arabic</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">literature in translation in a variety of</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">courses<</span><a href="http://www.mla.org/options_mod_arabic_lit" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">http://www.mla.org/options_mod_arabic_lit</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">>and institutions.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The volume will provide suggestions for nonspecialists</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">who wish to teach Arabic literature, and it will offer specialists in the</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">field new perspectives on teaching. Essays should focus not just on</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">teaching the texts but on teaching them as translations and should *demonstrate</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">some familiarity with the field of translation studies*.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Essays should also take into account the following: the legacies of</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">orientalism in teaching Arabic literature today; the politics of teaching</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Arabic literature in particular locations (whether in North America or</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">elsewhere); and the ethical responsibilities of teaching literature</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">translated from Arabic in the classroom. *Modern* will be used in its</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">broadest possible meaning; essays are welcomed about teaching Arabic</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">literature from any period considered modern, particularly essays on texts</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">from the nineteenth century and/or the *nahda*. Essays focusing on</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">questions of canonicity and on canonical and noncanonical authors are also</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">welcomed.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Possible topics for essays include</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">· teaching Arabic literature in different kinds of</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">courses<</span><a href="http://www.mla.org/options_mod_arabic_lit" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">http://www.mla.org/options_mod_arabic_lit</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">o postcolonial literature,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">o world literature,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">o gender studies, etc.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">· teaching Arabic literature if you do not know Arabic; history,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">current events, and</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">· the politics of teaching Arabic literature;</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">· working within and beyond the canon of modern Arabic literature.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">If you are interested in contributing an essay (3,000–3,500 words), please</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">send a summary proposal (500 words) to Michelle Hartman (</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="mailto:michelle.hartman@mcgill.ca" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">michelle.hartman@mcgill.ca</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">) by 15 November 2013.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<div style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">--------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
End of Arabic-L: 17 Oct 2013</div></div>