Session Details

Thursday, 28 December

159. Muslim Heritage in English-Language Writing by Women

10:15–11:30 a.m., 309, Philadelphia Marriott

A special session

Presiding: T. Mera Moore Lafferty, Univ. of Pennsylvania

1. “Negotiating the Home and the World: Poetry by Imtiaz Dharker and Moniza Alvi,” Karni Pal Bhati, Furman Univ.

2. “Women of the Iranian Diaspora: Writing against the Grain,” Persis M. Karim, San Jose State Univ.

3. “Scheherazade’s Mirror: Fatima Mernissi’s Strategies of Global Storytelling,” Suzanne Gauch, Temple Univ.

For copies of abstracts, visit www.sas.upenn.edu/~tmlaffer/.

Program Archive