Arabic-L:GEN:Call for Panelists and Papers on American Involvement in Arab Education

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1) Subject:Call for Panelists and Papers on American Involvement in Arab Education

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Date: 110 Feb 2010
From:oryxius at GMAIL.COM
Subject:Call for Panelists and Papers on American Involvement in Arab Education

Call for Panelists and Paper Proposals

MESA 2010

The American Academic Institution and Its Involvement in Arab Education:
Missions, Powers, and Conflicts

This panel seeks to explore and understand the complex histories, missions,
and perceptions (native and non-native) of the involvement of American
universities in the education of generations of Arabs both in the Arab World
and in the United States. With thousands of Arab students being educated in
the United States at American universities or on satellite campuses thereof
in the Arab World, the American educational tradition in the region, that
began in the mid-19th century, is only getting more and more diverse and
complex. Delving beyond the simplistic dichotomous
“liberating”/“imperialist” perception, researchers are invited to examine
the complexities, implications, and developments of this tradition from any
of the following disciplines and areas of interest (among others):

- Historiography
- Education
- Literature
- Art
- Media
- Politics (International Relations)
- Cultural Studies
- Development Studies
- Globalization

I myself will present a paper examining the portrayal of the American
academic locus in recent Arabic literature, comparing those texts that
approach the American university as an experiential lived-in reality with
those that provide a fictionalized envisioning of the world of the “learned
other.”

If you are interested in presenting a paper in this panel, please email me,
Muhamed Al Khalil (muhamed at msu.edu or oryxius at gmail.com), by February 10 to
discuss your proposed topic (an abstract of 200-400 words would be helpful).

Sincerely,

Muhamed Osman Al Khalil, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures
Michigan State University

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