ARABIC-L: LIT: Conference Schedule

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Date: 09 Mar 1999
From: William Granara <granara at fas.harvard.edu>
Subject: Conference Schedule

Harvard University - Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Conference: History as Mythical Discourse in Modern Arabic Literature
March 18-20, 1999
Schedule of events:


Thursday, 3/18, 6:00: Coolidge Hall,  Room 2 (1737 Cambridge St.)
"Eyewitness, Scribe and Story Teller: My Experience as a Novelist"
Prof. Radwa Ashour, Ain Shams University, Novelist

Friday, 3/19: Session 1: 9 -12:00 - Barker Center Room 133  (12 Quincy St.)
"Al-Andalus and the Search for a Lost Continent in Modern Arabic Literature"
William Granara, Harvard University
"A la recherche du temps present: The Evolution of Artistic Identity in
Neoclassical Arabic Poetry"
Margaret Larkin, University of California, Berkeley
"Abu Nuwas in America"
Michael Cooperson, UCLA

Friday, 3/19: Session 2: 2 -5:00 - Coolidge Hall  Room 510
"Palestinian Poets on the Kafr Qasim Massacre"
Susan Slyomovics, MIT
"Rewriting the Pre-Islamic Crisis in Search for a  Hero"
Amin Bonnah, Georgetown University
"The Dual Approach to the Islamic Heritage in Al-Mes'adi's Haddatha Abu
Huraira Qal"
Sarra Tlili, University of Pennsylvania

Saturday, 3/20: Session 3: 9:30-12:30 -Coolidge Hall Room 3
"The Line, the Circle, and the Treadmill: History's Structure in
Contemporary  Arabic Narrative"
Hosam Aboul Ela, Hofstra University
"Slaves or Siblings: Black Domestics in the Writings of Abdullah al-Nadim
Eve Troutt-Powell, University of Georgia
"History as Individual Mythos in Al-Ghitani's Mutun Al-Ahram"
Ayman El-Desouky, Harvard University

Saturday, 3/20: Session 4: 2: 5:00-Coolidge Hall Room 3
"Sexualizing History: Imra'at al-Qarura by Salim Matar Kamil."
Sinan Antoon, Harvard University
"Commemorative Proliferation at the 50-Year Mark: Lamenting Palestinian
Catastrophe, Celebrating Israeli Independence"
Carol Bardenstein, University of Michigan
"History and Writing the Novel"
Prof. Bensalem Himmich, Novelist, Morocco

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