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!

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

Ghenwa Hayek, University of Chicago
Karim Mattar, University of Colorado, Boulder

Candidates running for election for the…[Read more]

Hello,

I’m Karim Mattar, and am writing in support of my nomination for the Global Arab and Arab American Executive Committee for the 2016-2021 term.  I am an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder.  I received my DPhil in English from the University of Oxford (2013), after earning degrees at UCL (BA, 2003), War…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,
Please consider submitting an abstract to the following proposed seminar for ACLA 2016 (Cambridge MA, 17-20 March, 2016). The paper submission portal is now open and available at http://www.acla.org/node/add/paper. Abstracts must be received by midnight on Wednesday, September 23, 2015.
Visual Politics in Middle Eastern Li…[Read more]

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Visual (Inter)Changes in the Mediterranean Basin: Medieval & Renaissance Western and Eastern Illuminated Manuscripts
Please consider submitting an abstract to the “ Visual (Inter)Changes in the Mediterranean Basin: Medieval & Renaissance Western and Eastern Illuminated Manuscripts ” seminar of the 2016 American Com…[Read more]

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The City in the Life Narratives of the Global South

Organizer: Gretchen Head, Yale-NUS College

Co-Organizer: Rania Said, Binghamton University

Contact the Seminar Organizers:

gretchen.head@yale-nus.edu.sg

rania.said.tn@gmail.com

In Speech Genres and Other Late Essays, Mikhail Bakhtin insists on the…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

We welcome proposals that examine translations of books and exchange of knowlege between the Middle East and Russia in the pre-modern period:

131st MLA Annual Convention, Austin, 7–10 January 2016

Title of panel: “Russia and the Middle East (Pre-modern)”

Description: this  special panel examines broad cultural interaction be…[Read more]

The Global Arab and Arab American MLA Forum invites proposals for the following two panels at the MLA convention in Austin, Texas (Jan 7-10, 2016)

1. Global Arab Texts and their Publics
Displaced writers. Deterritorialized texts. How do recent Arab émigré/exiled/refugee writers and their publics redefine the global? Role of gender, religion, l…[Read more]

FYI:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/09/opinion/the-founding-muslims.html?_r=0

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FYI. A feminist thriller, Traitors, filmed in Morocco, in Arabic and French with English subtitles, now available from Amazon in DVD and VOD.

When writer/ director Sean Gullette’s feature film–a feminist thriller, shot in Morocco with a new Moroccan star, Chaimae ben Acha– opened at the Tribeca Film Festival…[Read more]

FYI:

The Forum on Modern Arabic Literature and Culture invites paper proposals for its three sponsored panel at the next MLA convention in Austin, Texas, 7–10 January 2016:

1. Who Reads Arabic Literature?

The publics of Arabic literature, its translation into other languages, worldwide circulation, reception, teaching, and adaptation into o…[Read more]

Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW) Triennial Conference
November 4-8, 2015
Sheraton Society Hill, Philadelphia, PA

Panel on “Arab American Women: Representation, Reception and Subjectivity in Contemporary American Literature by Women”

This panel welcomes papers that examine how Arab American women are represented in…[Read more]

CFP: Arab American Aesthetics, edited collection

This edited volume takes as its main question, how might we define Arab American Aesthetics? The impetus that undergirds this query is two-fold. First, the field of Arab American Studies contests the idea that Arab Americans and their various art(s) define themselves and their creations based on a…[Read more]

CFP: Arab American Aesthetics, edited collection
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Call for Papers: Upcoming Special Issue, Modern Fiction Studies

Enduring Operations: The Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq

Guest Editors: Aaron DeRosa and Stacey Peebles

Deadline for Submission: 1 February 2016

The Editors of MFS seek essays that focus on the fictional response to Operation Enduring Freedom and…[Read more]

FYI:

Dear Members of the Twentieth-Century American Literature Group:  I thought you would be interested in this project:

Call for Critical Essay Submissions: Working Women

For a book to be published by a major publisher, I am inviting essays on working women in late-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century American literature. The volume will…[Read more]

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Reminder of deadline for all proposals: February 13, 2015

 For the 2015 Triennial Conference of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers, Nov. 4-8, 2015, Sheraton Society Hill, Philadelphia, PA., the conference organizers welcome proposals on any topic related to the study of American women writers,…[Read more]