“Djinn, however, are a different kind of supernatural entity. Unlike ghosts, they are not remnants of a past that we presume dead, but live lives parallel to ours.”
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Teaching with Arabic Literature in Translation: Abdelrahman Munif’s ‘Cities of Salt’
“In a course with limited time to discuss reader perspectives and biases, I prefer to focus on the act of translation.”
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Teaching with Arabic Literature in Translation: ‘Arab Women Memoirs, Writing Feminist History’
“The goal of this course was to help students recognize these voices as important sources of social and intellectual history, and hence the choice to use non-fictional texts, which lend themselves to historical interpretation more easily.”
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Teaching with Arabic Literature in Translation: ‘Narrating Conflict’ and ‘Literary Legacies of War in Lebanon’
“In the ‘Narrating Conflicts’ course, we think a lot about calls to empathy and how different experiments with form are trying to engage their readers / viewers / players.”
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Teaching with Arabic Literature in (Spanish) Translation: Teaching in Mexico City
ArabLit’s ongoing series on Teaching with Arabic Literature in Translation continues with a conversation between ArabLit’s editor and Shadi Rohana, who teaches “Literatura árabe moderna” and “Literatura árabe moderna II: literatura testimonial femenina” at El Colegio de Mexico.
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Teaching with Arabic Literature in Translation: ‘Arab Literary Travels’
“With the course’s title, I’ve offered students three huge categories that can be endlessly debated. On our first day of class, I put “Arab,” “Literary,” and “Travel” up on separate sections of the board.”
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Teaching with Arabic Literature in Translation: Pairing Arabic Literature and Film
“Iraq is just one example, but there are so many corners of this thing we call ‘Arabic Literature’ that are worthy of more attention than they get. I hope that we will see more of this literature make its way into university reading lists.”
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Teaching with Arabic Literature in Translation: Once and Future Moroccos
“I must say, I’ve never taught a course on Moroccan literature, until now, because I felt there hasn’t been enough work available. I feel like I’m now ready to start thinking about such a course.”
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Teaching with Arabic Literature in Translation: Seminars in Poetry and the Free Verse Movement
“Other labels we pick apart are ‘Literature of Resistance’ and ‘Poets of the South in Lebanon’ as examples of this labeling process that is motivated by extra-literary imperatives.”
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