Session Details

Sunday, 30 December

706. Francophone Cultural Expressions in the Middle East and Asia (Excluding the Maghreb)

10:15–11:30 a.m., Arkansas, Sheraton Chicago

Program arranged by the Division on Francophone Literatures and Cultures

Presiding: Aliko Songolo, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison

1. “The Genealogy of the Arab-Israeli Conflict in Myriam Antaki’s Les versets du pardon,” Carine Bourget, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson

2. “Dispatching the Oriental Other: Gobineau in Nineteenth-Century Persia,” Rosemarie Scullion, Univ. of Iowa

3. “Re-locations of Lebanon: The Francophone and Transnational Reflections of Etel Adnan and Amin Maalouf,” Nadia Sahely, Baldwin Wallace Coll.

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