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Matthew Thomas Miller started the topic Special Session on Persian Literature in the forum
Arabic Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoAlthough this is the Arabic group, I thought I would post the announcement below here as well in case some of you find it relevant for your research interests.
For those of you that are attending the MLA conference next month in Chicago, I would like to draw your attention to a special session/panel on Persian literature (see details below)…[Read more]
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Samer M. Ali replied to the topic MLA Group Structure: Membership Feedback Sought in the forum
Arabic Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 12 years, 4 months agoI agree and disagree: The MLA has been on a years’ long campaign to atomize it’s whiteness, with the election of underrepresented ethnicities and disciplines to governing bodies — both Shaden and I have been elected to the DA. I was elected to the EC and will serve until 2016. With that seat at the table, I have proposed internationalizing our d…[Read more]
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Matthew Miller replied to the topic MLA Group Structure: Membership Feedback Sought in the forum
Arabic Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 12 years, 4 months agoDear All,
As I Comparative Literature PhD student who works on both Persian and Arabic (but admittedly much more on Persian), I just want to draw your attention to the fact that Persian is completely absent from this new, revised organizational structure. (We also were not included in the previous organizational structure either). I…[Read more]
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Samer M. Ali replied to the topic New Directions in Arabic Lit Scholarship? in the forum
Arabic Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 12 years, 8 months agoHi Sulaiman, I think by areas, you mean area studies or regional categories, and those have become less useful over the past decades for literatures. As for literary criticism and intertextuality, what methods or […]
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Samer M. Ali started the topic New Directions in Arabic Lit Scholarship? in the forum
Arabic Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 12 years, 8 months agoWhat new shifts in Arabic literature scholarship do you value? And why?
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Samer Mahdy Ali changed their profile picture on MLA Commons 13 years ago