Session Details

Thursday, 06 January

33. Arab Literature and Commitment

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 406B, LA Convention Center

Program arranged by the Division on Arabic Literature and Culture

Presiding: Amal M. Amireh, George Mason Univ.

1. “Al-Katib Al-Misri: The Politics of Late-Nahda Cosmopolitanism,” Christopher Micklethwait, Univ. of Texas, Austin

2. “Muslim Women in Naif Al-Mutawa’s Comic Book The 99,” Shirin E. Edwin, Sam Houston State Univ.

3. “The Politics of Pain: Evelyne Accad and Aïcha Ech-Channa,” Brinda J. Mehta, Mills Coll.

4. “Iconographies of Redemptive Self-Sacrifice in Contemporary Lebanon,” Ken Seigneurie, Simon Fraser Univ.

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