Session Details

Sunday, 28 December

188. Modern Arabic Literature as/and World Literature

8:30–9:45 a.m., Yerba Buena Salon 11, Marriott

A special session

Presiding: Ken Seigneurie, Lebanese American Univ.

1. “Adab and World Literature: Rethinking the History of Reading in Modern Egypt,” Michael Allan, Columbia Univ.

2. “Reading Palestine in the (Dis)Comfort of the Classroom,” Terry DeHay, Southern Oregon Univ.

3. “Tarabishi’s Trajectory; or, The Vicissitudes of Arabic Postcolonial Critique,” Hala Youssef Halim, New York Univ.

4. “Worldly War Literature: Lebanon,” Ken Seigneurie

For copies of abstracts, write to kseigneurie@lau.edu.lb after 1 Dec.

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