Teaching with Arabic Literature in Translation: At the American University in Cairo
2018-04-23
“Bilingualism in Arabic/English at the department of English and Comparative Literature at AUC is certainly a distinctive case.”Continue Reading
Teaching with Arabic Literature in Translation: ‘Arab Literary Travels’
2018-02-26
“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.”Continue Reading
Teaching with Arabic Literature in Translation: ‘Djinn Stories: Poetry, Madness, and Memory’
2018-04-02
“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.”Continue Reading
Teaching with Arabic Literature in Translation: Pairing Arabic Literature and Film
2018-02-19
“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.”Continue Reading
Teaching with Arabic Literature in Translation: Abdelrahman Munif’s ‘Cities of Salt’
2018-03-26
“In a course with limited time to discuss reader perspectives and biases, I prefer to focus on the act of translation.”Continue Reading
Teaching with Arabic Literature in Translation: ‘Arab Women Memoirs, Writing Feminist History’
2018-03-19
“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.”Continue Reading
Teaching with Arabic Literature in Translation: ‘Narrating Conflict’ and ‘Literary Legacies of War in Lebanon’
2018-03-12
“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.”Continue Reading
Teaching with Arabic Literature in Translation: ‘Palestinian Literature and Film’
2018-01-15
It’s popular to think that literature gives us a “window into the lives of others” and other similar cliches, but marginalized, stigmatized subjectivities such as the Palestinians’ aren’t a costume that we can try on and take off at our whim by opening and closing a book. The desire to better understand diverse Palestinian experiences through their literature is noble, the claim to authoritatively know Palestinians through it isn’t.Continue Reading
Teaching with Arabic Literature in Translation: Once and Future Moroccos
2018-02-12
“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.”Continue Reading
