A3: Voices from the Periphery: Arabic Literature between the Ages of Imperialism and Globalism I

Seminar Leader: Hussein Kadhim, Dartmouth College

Friday, April 16, 8:15 � 10:15 AM, Grande Ballroom 3

Muhsin J. al-Musawi, Columbia University: “Narrating Identity Formation: The Poetics of Predicament”

Suzanne Stetkevych, Indiana University: �Imperialisms and Identities: Ahmad Shawqi�s Nahj al-Burdah�

Yaseen Noorani, Edinburgh University: �Counterhegemony and the Poetic Image in the Arabic Free Verse Movement�

Saturday, April 17, 8:15 � 10:15 AM, Grande Ballroom 3

Amal Amireh, George Mason University: �Willful Forgetfulness: The Disappearance of Women in Ahlam Mosteghanemi�s Memory in the Flesh�

Khadidiatou Gueye, Pennsylvania State University: �The Ebbs and Flows of Female Exile in Malika Mokeddem�s Of Dreams and Assassin�

Clarissa Burt, United States Naval Academy: �The Peripherality of Women of Voice and Vision: Cassandra, Zarqa� al-Yammah, Sappho, Layla al-Akhyaliyyah�

Ikram Masmoudi, Princeton University: �Depicting and Challenging War in the Arabic Novel�

Sunday, April 18, 8:15 � 10:15 AM, Grande Ballroom 3

Karim Hamdy and Laura Rice, Oregon State University: �The Bedouin-Beldi Debate: Imperialism, Globalism, and Gender in Folk Poetry�

Hussein Kadhim, Dartmouth College: �Loss and Memory in Abd al-Wahhab al-Bayati�s A Song to My Son Ali�

Howard Yuen Fung Choy, �Muslims - Minority Nationality in China: Zhang Chengzhi�s History of the Soul�