Session Details

Thursday, 28 December

276. The Rise of the Arab Novel in English

3:30–4:45 p.m., 307, Philadelphia Marriott

A special session

Presiding: Najat Rahman, Université de Montréal

1. “The Rise of the Arab Novel: Colonial Languages, French and English,” Hamid Bahri, Hunter Coll., City Univ. of New York

2. “Ahdaf Soueif and the Second Birth of Egyptian Anglophone Fiction,” Shaden M. Tageldin, Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities

3. “The Rise of the Arab American Novel,” Waïl S. Hassan, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana

4. “The Rise of the Anglophone Arab Canadian Novel,” Nouri Gana, Univ. of Michigan, Dearborn

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