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S K posted an update in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 12 years agoHello everyone,
The Arabic Literature and Culture Division would like to encourage all our members to propose special panels, if they want to. These panels are vetted by the MLA, not by our division. Even if the final proposal is rejected, the whole exercise is informative, educational, and enjoyable. You’ll be connected to colleagues in your f…[Read more] -
S K posted an update in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 12 years agoDear Friends,
A quick reminder of session 119 “Open Hearing on the Future of the MLA Divisions”, a very important meeting today. Please try to attend it and make your voice heard regarding how the new structure will affect the Arabic Division. Here are the details of the the meeting:
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S K posted an update in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 12 years agoDear Colleagues:
The Executive Committee seeks nominees to stand in the Fall 2014 election for the Division on Arabic Literature and Culture. Nominees for the Fall 2014 election must be current MLA members (i.e., their names must appear in the membership list at the MLA Web site http://www.mla.org/member_search ).
The individual elected in 2014…[Read more]
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S K posted an update in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 12 years agoHello everyone, you are cordially invited to the following cash bar on Sat. evening:
Cash Bar Arranged by SAMLA, NEMLA, and PAMLA:
Saturday, 11 January, 8:45–10:00 p.m., Addison, Chicago Marriott
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S K posted an update in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 12 years agoDear Colleagues,
This year’s MLA convention features 21 panels that focus on Arabic literature and culture, listed below
The executive committee of the division looks forward to seeing you in Chicago
Best,
Suha Kudsieh
Secretary of the MLA Arabic lit. & Culture Division, 2013-14
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S K posted an update in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 12 years, 2 months agoDear Colleagues,
Please longin to the MLA Commons and make voice your opinion regarding the draft proposal to restructure the MLA groups and divisions, especially regarding Arabic. The deadline to add your
comment is Nov. 20. Here is the Commons link:Thank you for your…[Read more]
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Suha Kudsieh replied to the topic MLA Group Structure: Membership Feedback Sought in the forum
Arabic Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 12 years, 4 months agoHello everyone,
I am also glad that the MLA is reconfiguring its divisions and area studies, but I have misgivings about the new proposed groupings. First, I don’t see in what way the new structure is not euro-centric. If you look at the Western lit. groups, they have multiple subgroups and in many ways they retain their old structure and number…[Read more]
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Suha Kudsieh replied to the topic New Directions in Arabic Lit Scholarship? in the forum
Arabic Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 12 years, 8 months agoDear Katherine, thank you for bringing up an important point. The politics of selecting certain texts to be translated and marketed in the West is rather interesting, and I think a good number of scholars have […]
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Suha Kudsieh replied to the topic New Directions in Arabic Lit Scholarship? in the forum
Arabic Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 12 years, 8 months agoHello Samer and everyone in the group,
Not sure whether this is a new shift or not, but I think modern Islamic literature and fiction have been understudied. The impetus to cheer the Nahda has clouded our […]
Open access, open source, open to all
Thank you, Suha and all. Please see and feel free to distribute the following CFP for a special session that Dalia Gomaa are hoping to propose:
Narrating “Arab Americans”: Reflections on the term and its intersections with history, memory, geography, religion, race, gender, and sexuality in narratives by and about Arab Americans. 250-300 word…[Read more]