Palestine in the International Imaginary, 1987-2017

24^th February 2017

John Woolley Common Room, Level 4, John Woolley Building

The University of Sydney, Australia

Organised by

Dr Isabelle Hesse, The Department of English, The University of Sydney

Dr Ben Etherington, The Writing and Society Research Centre, Western Sydney…[Read more]

Hello everyone,

We hope you will join us for the following panels organized for the 2017 MLA by the Global Arab and Arab American Literature Forum. They are as follows:

Session 200: States of In/Security: Global Palestine in Literature, Culture, Art, and Activism
Friday, 6 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 104B, Pennsylvania Convention Ce…[Read more]

Dear members,

It is time to suggest nominations for a new committee member to the MLA Global Arab and Arab American Literature Forum’s current Executive Committee.

The procedure for nominations is outlined by Anna Chang and posted on 10 August 2016 on the MLA Commons’ “News from the MLA”: https://news.mla.hcommons-staging.org/2016/08/10/nominatio…[Read more]

Suggest a nominee for Delegate Assembly representative!

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2017, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive comm…[Read more]

As someone who began working in Arab American Studies in 2001, and has continued to be an active contributor to the field’s research and teaching, it is a real honor to be considered for a position on the executive board of the CLCS Global Arab and Arab American Forum. The scope, importance, and impact of Arab American Studies has grown r…[Read more]

NeMLA 2017 – Global Arab Literature in the 21st Century: Transformations, Shifts, and Changes (Seminar Panel)

48th Annual NeMLA Convention
Baltimore, Maryland
March 23 – 26th, 2017

Deadline to submit abstract: 09/30/2016
Categories: World Lit.
Location: Baltimore, MD, USA
Institutional host: Johns Hopkins University

CFP: “Global Arab…[Read more]

Waypoints and Watersheds: Arab American Activism and Memories
A Conference Marking the 50th Anniversary of the 1967 War
Arab American Studies Association 2017 Conference
March 24-26, 2017
Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, MI
Several important Arab and Arab American institutions and associations were established in the immediate aftermath…[Read more]

Hello everyone,

As per, MLA member communications by Carol Zuses, the MLA “at its meeting during the 2016 convention in Austin, the Delegate Assembly approved six constitutional amendments and one resolution.” One of those has to do with speaking out against Islamophobia. As Carol Zuses’s email points out, “the assembly’s actions are not fi…[Read more]

Call for Papers 1:

AMERICAN REPRESENTATIONS OF THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA

2016 Midwest Popular Culture Association Conference/Midwest American Culture Association

Thursday-Sunday, October 6-9, 2016

Chicago, IL

Hilton Rosemont Chicago

Deadline: April 30, 2016

Submissions.mpcaaca.org

Topics can include–but are certainly not limited…[Read more]

Hello everyone,

Please spread the word and consider submitting an abstract to the following panel idea for MLA 2017:

Beyond Bounds: The Refugee in Global Arab/Arab American Studies

Interrogating concepts of cosmopolitanism, exile, globally through the figure of the Arab refugee across historical/epistemic/disciplinary/geographical boundaries.…[Read more]

Critical Arab American Studies Series
CALL FOR PROPOSALS AND MANUSCRIPTS
Syracuse University Press invites proposals for book-length works for its newly launched series in Arab American Studies. Expanding the Press’s historical concentration in Arab American Writing and Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East, the new series will f…[Read more]

Call for Papers: The Gender and Sexuality of Borders and Margins

JMEWS invites feminist scholars working in any discipline or interdisciplinary area in the interpretive social sciences and humanities to submit area-specific manuscripts on any topic related to the theme of The Gender and Sexuality of Borders and Margins. Manuscripts may address…[Read more]

Hello everyone,

Below is a CFP for a collaborative session organized by the Global Arab and Arab American Literature forum and the Life Writing forum at the MLA.

Writing Migrant Selves in Transnational Arab Contexts. Regional, transnational, cross-border, multilingual Arab constructions of selfhood. Please submit 250 word abstracts and bios by…[Read more]

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!!

Dear all,

Below you can find the listing of the first ever sessions organized by the Global Arab and Arab American Literature Forum (GAAM) at the 2016 MLA convention in Austin, TX. Hope to see you there!

Politics of Solidarities and Cross-Racial Alliances

Friday, 8 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 18D, ACC

Program arranged by the forums CLCS G…[Read more]

Hello everyone,

We are excited to announce that Karim Mattar and Shaden Tageldin will be joining the executive committee of the Global Arab and Arab American Literature Forum!

Please help us give them a big welcome by posting your congratulations here on our Commons page!

Hello everyone,

If you haven’t yet done so, please be sure to vote for new members to the Global Arab and Arab American Literature Forum! The last day for voting is tomorrow, December 10, 2015!

Candidates running for election for the term 2016-close of Jan. 2021 convention:

Ghenwa Hayek, University of Chicago
Karim Mattar, University of C…[Read more]