Hello all,

Just a quick note that the Arabic division panel #77. Graphic Interventions: Visual Cultures of the Arab World will be meeting as scheduled today from 1:45–3:00 p.m. in room 402 of the JW Marriott.

We hope to see you there!!

Hello all,

Just a quick note that the Arabic division panel #77. Graphic Interventions: Visual Cultures of the Arab World will be meeting as scheduled today from 1:45–3:00 p.m. in room 402 of the JW Marriott.

We hope to see you there!!

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For film folks, the premier scholar on African Cinema, Kenneth Harrow, has a dispatch from this years FESPACO in Burkina Faso. There’s short reviews of films that Harrow finds notable and some thoughts on where the festival is as viable and important as in the past. Check out “Has the Magic Gone Out of Africa’s Largest Film Festi…[Read more]

African Literature….Says Who? The Last Fifty Years with Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

Kenyan born and internationally acclaimed, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o is the author of more major works of fiction, nonfiction, and drama than any African writer. His groundbreaking first novel Weep Not, Child recently celebrated fifty years, and he has since published over thir…[Read more]

The Executive Committee of the Arabic Division would like to invite the membership to submit ideas for a special session for the MLA in Austin, 2016.  The special session should speak to the Presidential theme, “Literature and Its Publics: Past, Present, and Future.” If you have an ideal, please submit a short abstract of the panel and a sample C…[Read more]