Session Details

Thursday, 06 January

34. Britain and the Middle East

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Platinum Salon H, J. W. Marriott

Program arranged by the Division on Twentieth-Century English Literature

Presiding: Joseph Allen Boone, Univ. of Southern California

1. “War Writing, Travel Writing, and Arabia: T. E. Lawrence,” Joshua Bernstein, Univ. of Southern California

2. “Bell, Balfour, Dreadnought: The British Hoax of the Middle East,” Jennifer Wicke, Univ. of Virginia

3. “The Spy Thriller in Iraq: Agatha Christie,” Judy Suh, Duquesne Univ.

4. “The Suez Crisis and Magic Realism: Salman Rushdie and Naguib Mahfouz,” Karim Mattar, Univ. of Oxford

For abstracts, write to josephbo@usc.edu after 20 Dec.

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