Welcome to the LLC Arabic forum! Members of the forum define “Arabic,” in the broadest sense, as both a multi-ethnic language and a multilingual ethnic formation. Therefore, we are interested in works written in Arabic as well as in Arab writing in other languages. We are interested in Arabic literature from the classical to the contemporary period, and we welcome comparative approaches that encompass other languages and cultures of the Middle East as well as those of Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas, and Australia.
Although our forum is young, approved by the MLA in 2009-2010, we have grown by leaps and bounds. Every year eight to twelve panels that pertain to Arabic literature and culture are approved by the MLA.
Please feel free to post pertinent announcements, call for papers, panels updates, and your suggestions. We look forward to hearing from all members.
Regards,
The Executive Committee of the LLC Arabic forum.
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Waiting for the arrivant: Godot in two poems by Nizār Qabbānī in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 1 month, 3 weeks agoThe theme of waiting permeates two poems by the late Syrian poet Nizār Qabbānī. The verse in both poems ‘Waiting for Godot’, and ‘A television interview with an Arab Godot’, describes an arduous wait, at once distressing and unpredictable. In the first poem, the poet urges Godot to arrive, as the savior who will appear in the form of the Messia…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Virtual Space: Palestinians Negotiate a Lost Homeland in Film in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 6 months, 1 week agoIn his seminal study, Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation, Eyal Weizman argues how the Israeli occupation has forced a new imagined space to emerge, which is at once confining to the Palestinians and increases their sense of marginalization and loss. Changing the landscape through imposing architecture construction is a way to…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited “‘Nothing is Left to Tell’ Beckettian Despair and Hope in the Arab World” in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 10 months, 4 weeks agoIn the Arab world, Beckett’s plays or their adaptations have not only been popular with audiences and directors but have also inspired other literary and media genres. The Beckettian wait itself has become synonymous with the condition of the Arab person. It is a wait that offers an unrealized potential of hope that reverberates with the d…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Palestinian Culture and the Nakba: Bearing Witness in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months agoThe Nakba not only resulted in the loss of the homeland, but also caused the dispersal and ruin of entire Palestinian communities. Even though the term Nakba refers to a singular historic event, the consequence of 1948 has symptomatically become part of Palestinian identity, and the element that demarcates who the Palestinian is. Palestinian exile…[Read more]
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Ghenwa Hayek started the topic Position: Arabic Lecturer, Full-Time, University of Chicago in the discussion
Arabic Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months ago<div>The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the Humanities Collegiate Division at the University of Chicago are announcing a position for a full-time Lecturer in Arabic, for a one-year, renewable, appointment. The successful candidate will typically teach a</div>
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Tahia Abdel Nasser started the topic Johns Hopkins University Job Search in the discussion
Arabic Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoThe Department of Comparative Thought and Literature at Johns Hopkins University searches for a tenure-track assistant professor, with an anticipated start date on <span class=”aBn” tabindex=”0″ data-term=”goog_285680215″><span class=”aQJ”>July 1, 2019</span></span>. We are looking to hire a promising scholar and teacher with a focus at the…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Coming of Age in Troubled Times: Son of Babylon and Theeb in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoJordan and Iraq are not countries that are often associated with a local film culture. Recently, however, a nascent film industry has started to grow in both Iraq and Jordan, producing films that have been shown in international film festivals. Even though the Jordanian film industry remains in its infancy, the films that have emerged of late…[Read more]
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Hatem Akil replied to the topic CfP: Images and memory: representations of conflicts in Arab countries, 2010s in the discussion
Arabic Literature and Culture via email on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoDear Ghenwa,
This sounds like quite a fascinating project. Thank you for sharing. Is this for an edited volume? Journal?
All the best,
Hatem
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Ghenwa Hayek started the topic CfP: Images and memory: representations of conflicts in Arab countries, 2010s in the discussion
Arabic Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoImages and memory: representations of conflicts in Arab countries during the 2010s.
The questions of memory and representations of conflicts are deeply rooted in the cinematic and artistic practices of Arab countries: Lebanese cinema always questions its civil war, since it started in 1975, exploring until today its consequences in a troubled…[Read more]
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Tahia Abdel Nasser posted an update in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 2 years, 7 months agoLLC Arabic CFPs for MLA 2019
The Forum on Arabic Literature and Culture invites paper proposals for four sponsored panels at the 2019 MLA convention in Chicago:
Textual Transactions in Arabic Theory
Exploring critical theories and philosophies from the Middle East, North Africa, and diaspora. Tracing transnational, transregional, and…[Read more] -
Ghenwa Hayek posted an update in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months agoCfP for MEHAT 2018, for graduate students. If you have/know graduate students, please encourage them to apply:
33rd Annual Middle East History & Theory Conference
The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
May 4-5, 2018
We invite proposals for papers and pre-arranged panels from graduate students, faculty, and independent scholars about the Middle…[Read more] -
Hatem Akil started the topic Please Join us for GAAM’s Sessions at MLA 2018 in the discussion
Arabic Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoDear Colleague,
Please join the Global Arab and Arab American forum at the following sessions during MLA 2018. This is a very crucial time for those engaged in Arab and Islamic topics at the MLA – and our solidarity is more essential than ever.
44A: Global Arab Precarity and the Contemporary US Academy: Race, Religion, Profession: …[Read more]
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Hoda El Shakry started the topic LAST CALL: Arab/ic CFPs for 2018 MLA in NYC — Please apply or share! in the discussion
Arabic Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoArab/ic CFPs for 2018 MLA in NYC — Please apply or share!
“Palestine, Ethics, and World Literature”
We invite proposals that examine BDS and the ethical engagement with literature, as well as Palestine and World Literature. We welcome critical engagements with Edward Said’s work, and papers that explore other boycott movements, state and aca…[Read more]
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Hatem Akil started the topic Reminder re. Global Arab and Arab American Forum MLA 2018 CFPs in the discussion
Arabic Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoDear Friends,
Time is closing on submissions to the MLA 2018 convention panels organized by the Forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature (GAAM). Please review and circulate as may be necessary.
Environmental Insecurities and Global Arab Humanities
Teaching Global Arab Comics in the U.S.
Below are the detailed CFPs:
Environmental…[Read more]
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Hoda El Shakry posted an update in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months agoCFP “Insecurity and Dissent in Middle Eastern Cinema”
What are the aesthetics that Middle Eastern filmmakers have deployed to express dissent and challenge the security of the regimes under which they live? What forms do such films employ to represent the insecurities of resistance? Please send abstracts (max. 250 words) and CVs to R. Shareah…[Read more] -
Hoda El Shakry posted an update in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months agoCFP: “Medieval States of Insecurity panel”
We invite proposals for a proposed session on Medieval States of Insecurity cosponsored by the Medieval Iberian Literature and Culture LLC and the Arabic Forum at the MLA annual conference in New York (2018). We welcome proposals that explore how insecurity—political and social, real or i…[Read more] -
Hoda El Shakry posted an update in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months agoCFP: “Speculative Futures in Arab/ic Literature”
We invite proposals that explore literary topoi, themes, and imagery of apocalypse, eschatology, science fiction, dystopia, utopia, (non)futurity, or fantasy in Arab/ic literature. We are particularly interested in papers that problematize the genres of magical realist, speculative, fantastical,…[Read more]
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Hoda El Shakry posted an update in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months agoCFP: “Palestine, Ethics, and World Literature”
We invite proposals that examine BDS and the ethical engagement with literature, as well as Palestine and World Literature. We welcome critical engagements with Edward Said’s work, and papers that explore other boycott movements, state and academic institutions, as well as MLA and the production, c…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic 2017 Forum Delegate Election: Solicitation of Membership Suggestions in the discussion
Arabic Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoWhen this forum’s executive committee meets during the upcoming convention in Philadelphia, it will take up the matter of nominations for the fall 2017 election of a new Delegate Assembly representative for the forum. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who has be…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Challenging the myth of “a land without a people”: Mahmoud Darwishs Journal of an Ordinary Grief and In the Presence of Absence in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoIn his address at the Madrid Peace Conference, the Head of the Palestinian Delegation, Dr Haidar Abdul-Shafi challenged the persistent myth that has defined Palestinian existence for at least a century by saying: “For too long the Palestinian people have gone unheeded, silenced […] we have been victimized by the myth of ‘a land witho…[Read more]
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