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Ghenwa Hayek started the topic ACLA CfP: Palestine/Israel: The Vocabulary of the Conflict and its Circulation in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoWe invite submissions of proposals to participate in our ACLA seminar titled “Palestine/Israel: The Vocabulary of the Conflict and its Circulation.” A detailed description of the seminar here and at the end of this email. Feel free to contact us for more information. The deadline for submission through the ACLA website is Sept. 20.
Many thanks an…[Read more]
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Ghenwa Hayek started the topic CfP: Images and memory: representations of conflicts in Arab countries, 2010s in the discussion
Arabic Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoImages and memory: representations of conflicts in Arab countries during the 2010s.
The questions of memory and representations of conflicts are deeply rooted in the cinematic and artistic practices of Arab countries: Lebanese cinema always questions its civil war, since it started in 1975, exploring until today its consequences in a troubled…[Read more]
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Jason Frydman started the topic CFP MLA 2019: Peter Abrahams, RIP – Commemorating a Pan-African Life. in the discussion
CLCS Caribbean on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months ago<b>MLA 2019 Special Session. </b>Honoring the centenary of Abrahams’ birth, we re-assess his epoch-making career as author-journalist-Panafricanist from Johannesburg to London to Kingston. Abstracts 100-300 words by 22 March 2018; Jason Frydman (jfrydman@brooklyn.cuny.edu).
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Jason Frydman started the topic CFP MLA 2019: Peter Abrahams, RIP – Commemorating a Pan-African Life. in the discussion
English Literature Other Than British and American on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoMLA 2019 Special Session. Honoring the centenary of Abrahams’ birth, we re-assess his epoch-making career as author-journalist-Panafricanist from Johannesburg to London to Kingston. Abstracts 100-300 words by 22 March 2018; Jason Frydman (jfrydman@brooklyn.cuny.edu).
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Jason Frydman started the topic CFP MLA 2019: Peter Abrahams, RIP – Commemorating a Pan-African Life. in the discussion
English Literature Other Than British and American on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoMLA 2019 Special Session. Honoring the centenary of Abrahams’ birth, we re-assess his epoch-making career as author-journalist-Panafricanist from Johannesburg to London to Kingston. Abstracts 100-300 words by 22 March 2018; Jason Frydman (jfrydman@brooklyn.cuny.edu).
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Jason Frydman started the topic CFP MLA 2019: Peter Abrhamas, RIP – Commemorating a Pan-African Life. in the discussion
English Literature Other Than British and American on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoMLA 2019 Special Session. Honoring the centenary of Abrahams’ birth, we re-assess his epoch-making career as author-journalist-Panafricanist from Johannesburg to London to Kingston. Abstracts 100-300 words by 22 March 2018; Jason Frydman (jfrydman@brooklyn.cuny.edu).
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Shaden M. Tageldin's profile was updated on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months ago
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Shaden M. Tageldin's profile was updated on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months ago
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Ghenwa Hayek's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 12 months ago
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Shaden M. Tageldin's profile was updated on MLA Commons 7 years, 12 months ago
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Ghenwa Hayek posted an update in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 7 years, 12 months agoCfP for MEHAT 2018, for graduate students. If you have/know graduate students, please encourage them to apply:
33rd Annual Middle East History & Theory Conference
The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
May 4-5, 2018
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Ghenwa Hayek posted an update in the group
LLC West Asian on MLA Commons 7 years, 12 months agoGraduate students, please apply! Those who teach grad students, please circulate this CfP for MEHAT:
33rd Annual Middle East History & Theory Conference
The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
May 4-5, 2018
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Ghenwa Hayek posted an update in the group
Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 12 months agoMEHAT 2018 is looking for graduate students whose scholarship is at the intersection of digital humanities and Middle Eastern studies. Apply, and circulate widely:
Call for Papers
33rd Annual Middle East History & Theory Conference
The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
May 4-5, 2018
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Ghenwa Hayek posted an update in the group
CLCS Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 7 years, 12 months agoGraduate students in GAAA Studies, please apply to MEHAT! Those of you who teach graduate students, please encourage your students to apply:
33rd Annual Middle East History & Theory Conference
The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
May 4-5, 2018
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Ghenwa Hayek posted an update on Humanities Commons 7 years, 12 months ago
Apply to MEHAT 2018, or encourage others to do so: https://voices.uchicago.edu/mehat/conference/cfp/
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Ghenwa Hayek's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years ago
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Ghenwa Hayek's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years ago
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Ghenwa Hayek deposited Whitewashing Arabic for global consumption: translating race in The Story of Zahra on Humanities Commons 8 years ago
This article argues that, in reading comparatively the Arabic and English versions of Hanan al-Shaykh’s 1980 Hikayat Zahra, a pattern of omitting race and racial language emerges in the English version, published in 1986. I use a close reading of the translation’s selective appropriation of the original’s racial and political language to argue…[Read more]
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Ghenwa Hayek deposited The Urban Gateway: Teaching the City in Modern Arabic Literature on Humanities Commons 8 years ago
This essay argues that spatial approaches to the teaching of the city in literary texts can elucidate the ways in which literature is a privileged form for thinking about and representing the concept of ‘cityness’, a term borrowed from urban studies. In the context of Arabic literature, a city-based approach can bring to light new, int…[Read more]
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Ghenwa Hayek deposited Making Ordinary: Recuperating the Everyday in Post-2005 Beirut Novels on Humanities Commons 8 years ago
I argue that young Lebanese novelists like Sahar Mandour and Hilal Chouman mobilize the ordinary as a way to ‘write out’ of the literary legacy of war and trauma writing that have characterized Lebanese fiction, without denying or suppressing Lebanon’s violent past. I go on to argue that this discursive move of ‘making ordinary’ allows these wri…[Read more]
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