Session Details

Friday, 29 December

514. War Narratives

3:30–4:45 p.m., Adams, Loews

Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Arabic Literature and Culture

Presiding: Amal M. Amireh, George Mason Univ.

1. “War, Poetry, Mourning: Darwish, Adonis, Iraq,” Nouri Gana, Univ. of Michigan, Dearborn

2. “Complicating Resistance: The War at and for Home in Sahar Khaliefeh’s Wild Thorns,” Philip John Metres III, John Carroll Univ.

3. “Battling Collective Amnesia: The Trauma of Civil War in Two Lebanese American Novels,” Carol Fadda-Corney, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette

4. “War Diary: Jerusalem 1915,” Salim Tamari, Birzeit Univ.

Respondent: Amal M. Amireh

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