MLA Commons | CLCS Global Arab and Arab American | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-arab-and-arab-american/ Activity feed for the group, CLCS Global Arab and Arab American. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:48:38 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 cabefb85ef316f6d3e9c85b0bd4de48a Berna Gueneli started the topic CF Applicants: Assistant Professor of Film Studies, UGA, Athens, due by 1/15/26 in the forum CLCS Global Arab and Arab American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-arab-and-arab-american/forum/topic/cf-applicants-assistant-professor-of-film-studies-uga-athens-due-by-1-15-26-3/ Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:59:44 -0500 <span style=”font-weight: 400;”>The Department of Theatre and Film at the University of Georgia welcomes applications for the position of Assistant Professor of Film Studies. </span>

 

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Area of specialization is open. Desired areas of specialization include, but are not limited to, one or more of the following:…[Read more]

]]> 0 bc3ca5918e5aecb37dc737007efb2c8c Ahmed Idrissi Alami created the doc AATA Translation Contest, Deadline 15-August, 2025 in the group CLCS Global Arab and Arab American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1922625/ Mon, 14 Jul 2025 20:27:49 -0400 0 1bf02e4bf98efa14371e4d0306651bf8 Ahmed Idrissi Alami started the topic ARABIC TRANSLATION CONTEST – (AATA) submissions deadline August 15, 2025 in the forum CLCS Global Arab and Arab American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-arab-and-arab-american/forum/topic/arabic-translation-contest-aata-submissions-deadline-august-15-2025/ Tue, 11 Mar 2025 20:10:37 -0400 The American Association of Teachers of Arabic (AATA) is delighted to announce this year’s Arabic Translation Contest. We kindly ask you to encourage your eligible students to participate in the contest.
Details on the topics, eligibility, requirements, submission date, submission e-mail address, prizes, and coordinator/s are stated in the a…[Read more]

]]> 0 7ce408e8b6d34d52ab0f24ae3dbba1c8 Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for "Reading Cultures," a special issue of the journal Culture as Text in the forum CLCS Global Arab and Arab American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-arab-and-arab-american/forum/topic/cfp-for-reading-cultures-a-special-issue-of-the-journal-culture-as-text-3/ Fri, 01 Nov 2024 10:25:00 -0400 Reading Cultures

A special issue of the journal Culture as Text (degruyter.com).

Guest Editor: Thomas O. Beebee, Penn State University (Emeritus)

It is common practice among literary scholars to divide their field into a variety of authorial strategies and attachments, e.g. by form, genre, style or literary movement. Romanticism generally makes…[Read more]

]]> 0 d6aa417c62c21dd2c30f6bbcef11e566 Hania A.M. Nashef deposited The City is Closing in: Raja Shehadeh’s Going Home Searches for a Homeland in the group CLCS Global Arab and Arab American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1893020/ Sat, 20 Jul 2024 03:00:26 -0400 Growing constrictions and suffocating borders, due to an unrelenting occupation, continue to plague the lives of Palestinians living in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Raja Shehadeh’s 2019 book, Going Home, illustrates how this stifling existence has only worsened with time. His work provides a chronology of events and highlights changes w…[Read more]

]]> 0 4534cd8aaaa16c86ddd586dad5fc8f1e Ramzi Salti deposited Women’s Voices in Arabic Music by Ramzi Salti (Stanford University) in the group CLCS Global Arab and Arab American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890604/ Sat, 29 Jun 2024 04:00:12 -0400 This is the corrected and edited transcript of Dr. Ramzi Salti’s talk about “Women’s Voices in Arabic Music” which was presented for Women’s History Month at Santa Rosa Junior College on March 7, 2024. You can also watch the video on YouTube (with CC on).

]]> 0 ae8376eb9a4973f41c5fc1332b9ee85c Anna Ziajka Stanton started the topic Executive Committee -- Nominees Needed in the discussion CLCS Global Arab and Arab American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-arab-and-arab-american/forum/topic/executive-committee-nominees-needed/ Thu, 11 Jan 2024 12:45:57 -0500 The MLA Global Arab & Arab American Forum seeks nominees to the Executive Committee, with a term to begin after the 2025 MLA Convention and run through Jan 2030.

  • Only current MLA members are eligible for appointment.
  • Seven convention years must elapse before an individual can serve another term on the same executive committee.
  • No member may…

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]]> 0 19b05ffc964dc3b98c0f3cfc901545e9 Ramzi Salti deposited Vivian and Her Son in the group CLCS Global Arab and Arab American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870105/ Mon, 08 Jan 2024 04:01:52 -0500 This short story, written by Dr. Ramzi Salti, was published as part of his book titled “The Native Informant and Other Stories: Six Tales of Defiance from the Arab World”. It has been turned into a short film titled “The 40th Day’–available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/fspvJSiSQkc. Complete E-Book now available on Google Play and Kindle.

]]> 0 138f2892f081dc3cfc255f3e5c6e559f Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Against Stereotypical Representations: On young Saudi directors in the group CLCS Global Arab and Arab American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1857502/ Wed, 06 Sep 2023 01:12:30 -0400 In his writing, Cultural theorist Stuart Hall has often argued that an image or a set of images has the capability of condensing a number of attributes into a single picture, producing a misleading representation of what other people and cultures are like. As a result, multiple stories evolve into the one story that is told repeatedly and usually…[Read more]

]]> 0 683b1c70f3660fc67958683c4b2811ea Amel Abbady deposited “The past goes to sleep, and wakes up inside you”: Identity Crisis in Hassan Blasimʼs “The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes” in the group CLCS Global Arab and Arab American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1841284/ Thu, 13 Apr 2023 04:35:31 -0400 This article examines “The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes,” the last of the fourteen stories that comprise Iraqi writer Hassan Blasimʼs collection The Corpse Exhibition. In “The Nightmares” Blasim is not concerned at all about depicting the reception of refugees in Europe. As evident in the title itself, what is central to the story is the psycholo…[Read more]

]]> 0 8c4646e94a99fcf4ce054e25ff9d8a05 Amel Abbady deposited Mobility, Survival, and the Female Body in Laila Lalami᾿s Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits in the group CLCS Global Arab and Arab American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1841272/ Thu, 13 Apr 2023 04:09:37 -0400 Abstract of my book chapter, published in Memory, Voice, and Identity
Muslim Women’s Writing from across the Middle East
Edited By Feroza Jussawalla, Doaa Omran

]]> 0 973b99604287bf058117cf206f4d13e9 Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Journeys across fragmented lands: Coetzee’s Life and Times of Michael K and Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail in the group CLCS Global Arab and Arab American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1840264/ Thu, 06 Apr 2023 04:40:30 -0400 Solidarity between South Africa and Palestine has a long history, and often times, a comparison is drawn between the apartheid system in South Africa and the Israeli occupation and settler-colonial project in Palestine. In 1997, the late South African President, Nelson Mandela, said, “We know all too well that our freedom is incomplete without t…[Read more]

]]> 0 a5e084ce9b9101d5460b4a6bdb16e00e Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Suppressed Narrator, Silenced Victim in Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail in the group CLCS Global Arab and Arab American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1835411/ Sat, 25 Feb 2023 04:00:23 -0500 Although the systematic eviction of Palestinians from their homeland has been recorded at length since the establishment of the state of Israel in 948, the documentation has namely concerned itself with urban centers or villages. Expulsion and removal of marginalized communities, namely the Bedouins’, from their ancestral encampments or homes h…[Read more]

]]> 0 29b543477c0fbbf02aec42d6f549eb42 Anna Ziajka Stanton started the topic Seeking Nominees for Executive Committee + Delegate Assembly Rep (CLCS GAAM) in the discussion CLCS Global Arab and Arab American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-arab-and-arab-american/forum/topic/seeking-nominees-for-executive-committee-delegate-assembly-rep-clcs-gaam/ Fri, 13 Jan 2023 15:07:30 -0500 We are seeking nominations for the Executive Committee of the CLCS Global Arab and Arab American Forum at the MLA. We are also seeking nominations for a representative to the MLA Delegate Assembly on behalf of the CLCS Global Arab and Arab American Forum. Both appointments would begin after the MLA Convention in 2024. Please email all nominations…[Read more]

]]> 0 43459e1ff88940b24b5c0b54308ad93b Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic MLA 2023 CFP Adapting Digital Resources for Global and Comparative Studies in the discussion CLCS Global Arab and Arab American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-arab-and-arab-american/forum/topic/mla-2023-cfp-adapting-digital-resources-for-global-and-comparative-studies/ Thu, 10 Mar 2022 12:36:44 -0500 The Association of Departments and Programs of Comparative Literature invites submissions for its guaranteed MLA 2023 session: “Adapting Digital Resources for Global and Comparative Studies”

The COVID-19 pandemic forced professors to rely on technology to teach online.  This session aims to share innovative methodologies used for teaching grad…[Read more]

]]> 0 2cc49c73692510f1ae76bbbe8ef31581 Ahmed Idrissi Alami deposited MLA 2023- San Francisco, CA - CLCS Global Arab and Arab American: Calls for Papers in the group CLCS Global Arab and Arab American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1770510/ Sat, 05 Feb 2022 02:24:22 -0500 MLA 2023- San Francisco, CA – CLCS Global Arab and Arab American: Calls for Papers

Writing and Cultural Production as Oppositional Work
Oppositional work of writing and cultural production in the Arab region and global Arab diaspora, including protest and dissident literature/art/activism that resists surveillance and discursive/cultural…[Read more]

]]> 0 a8f334fbe83282f5dbbd401aa6970b0a Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Suppressed Nakba Memories in Palestinian female narratives Susan Abulhawa’s The Blue Between Sky and Water and Radwa Ashour’s The Woman from Tantoura in the group CLCS Global Arab and Arab American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1734389/ Fri, 09 Apr 2021 03:53:18 -0400 Israeli officials have long denied that rape was used as an instrument of war against Palestinians. Most of the files relating to the expulsion of Palestinians during the Nakba in 1948 and its aftermath remain sealed in Israeli archives and have been reclassified as top secret. Palestinian oral narratives have long been considered a poor…[Read more]

]]> 0 18c93bd494e9bc7e7d6638b14eda425b Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo started the topic Poetry Reading by Iraqi poet Dunya Mikhail in the discussion CLCS Global Arab and Arab American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-arab-and-arab-american/forum/topic/poetry-reading-by-iraqi-poet-dunya-mikhail/ Wed, 03 Feb 2021 15:26:36 -0500 Please, see attachment for information of a reading by Iraqi poet Dunya Mikhail.

]]> 0 ec301b7d343ee3889c904114b22fbd50 Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Against a reading of a sacred landscape: Raja Shehadeh rewrites the Palestinian presence in Palestinian Walks in the group CLCS Global Arab and Arab American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1718087/ Thu, 26 Nov 2020 03:48:45 -0500 ABSTRACT

In his introduction to Palestinian Walks, Raja Shehadeh remarks that in spite of the great number of travelers to Palestine, travel literature, for the most part, willfully ignored the living experience and existence of the land’s inhabitants. Often, Palestine was the imaginary place that was continuously invented to confirm r…[Read more]

]]> 0 8e56b1657a494f45bfdb8a7a461cbed7 Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Waiting for the arrivant: Godot in two poems by Nizār Qabbānī in the group CLCS Global Arab and Arab American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1704698/ Sat, 08 Aug 2020 03:53:41 -0400 The 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]

]]> 0 041a43ed6a2b5d0e69c4fa2239ebbd92 Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Virtual Space: Palestinians Negotiate a Lost Homeland in Film in the group CLCS Global Arab and Arab American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1681663/ Sun, 22 Mar 2020 03:48:44 -0400 In 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]

]]> 0 04c9e411a48294f9f57f07a800f98fdd Ahmed Idrissi Alami deposited CFPs: MLA 2021, CLCS Global Arab and Arab American in the group CLCS Global Arab and Arab American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1680328/ Mon, 09 Mar 2020 03:48:44 -0400 Global Indigeneity
Considers theoretical and political questions raised by the model of “trans-indigeneity” paying attention to indigenous mythologies, histories of settler colonialism, and questions of comparison, translation, resistance, language, and appropriation. 300-word abstract and short bio.
Deadline for submissions: Friday, 20 Mar…[Read more]

]]> 0 d36aaeea9a9e9dc5aa87f9d31b8a5d0c Karim Mattar started the topic CLCS Global Arab and Arab American Panels at MLA 2020 in the discussion CLCS Global Arab and Arab American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-arab-and-arab-american/forum/topic/clcs-global-arab-and-arab-american-panels-at-mla-2020/ Tue, 26 Feb 2019 22:26:51 -0500 Dear Friends,

We write to invite submissions for one or both of the CLCS Global Arab and Arab American Panels at MLA 2020:

  • Poetics and Politics of Defeat: Reconfiguring the Human after the Arab Spring. This panel reconsiders representations of the human / inhuman / posthuman in relation to the Arab Spring and its aftermath. Papers welcome on…

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]]> 0 cfce8ab35782abbf7737a3b244f7efdf Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Palestinian Culture and the Nakba: Bearing Witness in the group CLCS Global Arab and Arab American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1622800/ Sat, 03 Nov 2018 03:48:51 -0400 The 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]

]]> 0 e9c079ccfe6b0511c36ba564dc44f231 Ghenwa Hayek started the topic ACLA CfP: Palestine/Israel: The Vocabulary of the Conflict and its Circulation in the discussion Global Arab and Arab American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-arab-and-arab-american/forum/topic/acla-cfp-palestine-israel-the-vocabulary-of-the-conflict-and-its-circulation/ Tue, 18 Sep 2018 14:19:02 -0400 We invite submissions of proposals to participate in our ACLA seminar titled “Palestine/Israel: The Vocabulary of the Conflict and its Circulation.” A detailed description of the seminar here and at the end of this email. Feel free to contact us for more information. The deadline for submission through the ACLA website is Sept. 20.

Many thanks an…[Read more]

]]> 0 33aa262bb91bba96ada165ad969738ac George Potter posted an update in the group CLCS Global Arab and Arab American: If anyone is doing work in theater or performance studies, […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1608941/ Tue, 22 May 2018 20:24:21 -0400 If anyone is doing work in theater or performance studies, please submit to our working group at ASTR for the fall. We would be delighted to have you. Info. below:
Arab Arousal: Embodying Arab Identity in Performance
Hala Baki, University of California, Santa Barbara, halabaki@umail.ucsb.edu
George Potter, Valparaiso University,…[Read more]

]]> 0 fcc978d0be8f7160cc94f18636912b3b Ahmed Idrissi Alami edited the doc CFP_ Transacting Arab Literary ModernityCFP_ Global Transactional Cultures and Identities in/of the Mediterranean in the group CLCS Global Arab and Arab American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1601386/ Wed, 21 Feb 2018 14:57:18 -0500 0 e86eac57f2a34899ea75f894ade11747 Ahmed Idrissi Alami created the doc CFP_ Global Transactional Cultures and Identities in/of the Mediterranean in the group CLCS Global Arab and Arab American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1600541/ Mon, 12 Feb 2018 16:26:30 -0500 0 2f5a18d34e02f3cee087a7a58a915ff0 Ahmed Idrissi Alami posted an update in the group CLCS Global Arab and Arab American: “Race, Difference, and Public Space"_CFP 43rd Annual A […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1599229/ Wed, 31 Jan 2018 19:31:17 -0500 “Race, Difference, and Public Space”_CFP
43rd Annual American Studies Symposium
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, April 28-29, 2018

Submission Deadline: February 1, 2018

*Travel support is available

The American Studies Program at Purdue University announces its 43rd Annual Symposium to be held April 28-29, 2018. This event focuses on t…[Read more]

]]> 0 85fee7e69badf41ab7c5af9af6d44f32 Ghenwa Hayek posted an update in the group CLCS Global Arab and Arab American: Graduate students in GAAA Studies, please apply to MEHAT! […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1598813/ Sun, 28 Jan 2018 19:11:35 -0500 Graduate students in GAAA Studies, please apply to MEHAT! Those of you who teach graduate students, please encourage your students 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…[Read more]

]]> 0 04258019462da09b1ab9f83617d18769 Hania Nashef deposited A dialogue beyond the nation-state: Darwish's Mural and Shehadeh's A Rift in Time: Travels with my Ottoman Uncle in the group CLCS Global Arab and Arab American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1598705/ Sat, 27 Jan 2018 03:48:44 -0500 Even though postcolonial theory has helped in the critique of non-western texts, it has for the most part failed to engage with the Arab region and its literatures in spite of Edward Said’s seminal book, Orientalism. Robert Young argues that postcolonial theory since its inception has been concerned with the politics of invisibility, striving to m…[Read more]

]]> 0 2acf86387cd78b308fd5f3575d27f26e Mbarek Sryfi posted an update in the group CLCS Global Arab and Arab American: Dear GAAM, I am happy to join this group. I would like to be […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1595170/ Sat, 06 Jan 2018 19:28:30 -0500 Dear GAAM,
I am happy to join this group. I would like to be considered for nomination for membership in the executive committee. Thanks for your consideration.

Mbarek Sryfi

]]> 0 4fdc64569114bc0ef07b1970597bb83e Rachel Norman posted an update in the group CLCS Global Arab and Arab American: Dear Colleagues, I write to nominate myself for the […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1594801/ Fri, 05 Jan 2018 02:17:28 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

I write to nominate myself for the upcoming election to the forum’s committee. I am an advanced doctoral candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and am currently working on a dissertation on Arab diasporic literature in Canada, Mexico, and the United States. I look forward to seeing you all at the social hour…[Read more]

]]> 0 beada82c1293000a4be03c7693e9931e Hatem Akil started the topic Please Join us for GAAM's Sessions at MLA 2018 in the discussion Global Arab and Arab American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-arab-and-arab-american/forum/topic/please-join-us-for-gaams-sessions-at-mla-2018/ Sat, 23 Dec 2017 01:40:43 -0500 Dear 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:  Thursday,…[Read more]

]]> 0 beecffda4f343dc912c0e436f5a84de8 Pauline Homsi Vinson started the topic Deadline Extended until September 30 - Amerasia Special Issue: Arab/Americas in the discussion Global Arab and Arab American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-arab-and-arab-american/forum/topic/deadline-extended-until-september-30-amerasia-special-issue-arabamericas/ Wed, 09 Aug 2017 17:58:37 -0400 Hello everyone,

The deadline for submissions to the Amerasia Special Issue: Arab/Americas has been extended until September 30th. Please consider submitting your work and spread the word. Below is the text of the CFP:

Call for Papers for a special issue of Amerasia – Deadline Extended till September 30, 2017

Guest Editors: Dr. Sarah Gualtieri (…[Read more]

]]> 0 a25e4e7fa4876068a6fe8ad3fcd85d12 Pauline Homsi Vinson started the topic CFP: Amerasia Journal Special Issue - Arab/Americas: Locations and Iterations in the discussion Global Arab and Arab American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-arab-and-arab-american/forum/topic/cfp-amerasia-journal-special-issue-arabamericas-locations-and-iterations/ Tue, 30 May 2017 05:13:40 -0400 In her introduction to her path-breaking book, Bint Arab, Evelyn Shakir notes that most of the Arab immigrants and children of immigrants of her generation from the 1910s and 1920s called themselves “Syrian,” then repackaged themselves as “Lebanese” in the 1940s, only to recast themselves in the 1960s as “Arabs.” This special issue of Amerasia ai…[Read more]

]]> 0 654faa31cff729fa83fe4ccd01810aa9 Hatem Akil started the topic Reminder re. Global Arab and Arab American Forum MLA 2018 CFPs in the discussion Global Arab and Arab American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-arab-and-arab-american/forum/topic/reminder-re-global-arab-and-arab-american-forum-mla-2018-cfps/ Tue, 14 Mar 2017 02:35:05 -0400 Dear 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]

]]> 0 5d8ea2274d825f31fc6ce7c51f155e92 Pauline Homsi Vinson posted an update in the group CLCS Global Arab and Arab American: CFP for MLA 2018 in New York City: Session Proposed by CLCS […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1563071/ Thu, 23 Feb 2017 08:13:42 -0500 CFP for MLA 2018 in New York City: Session Proposed by CLCS Global Arab and Arab American

Environmental Insecurities and Global Arab Humanities
Areas to consider for this panel might include: Global Arab texts/contexts and environmental flashpoints: economy, imperialism, petro-despotism, climate-change, pollution, resource scarcity, war,…[Read more]

]]> 0 0752bd242983b69c42e8cd86bd4090d1 Dina Hassan replied to the topic CFP for 2018 MLA convention collaborative panel - Teaching Global Arab Comics in the discussion Global Arab and Arab American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-arab-and-arab-american/forum/topic/cfp-for-2018-mla-convention-collaborative-panel-teaching-global-arab-comics/#post-1013600 Fri, 17 Feb 2017 00:43:31 -0500 That makes sense. That you so much for your reply.

 

Best Regards,

Dina

]]> 0 3340a36422c775e89be9269eb20245c6 Pauline Homsi Vinson replied to the topic CFP for 2018 MLA convention collaborative panel - Teaching Global Arab Comics in the discussion Global Arab and Arab American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-arab-and-arab-american/forum/topic/cfp-for-2018-mla-convention-collaborative-panel-teaching-global-arab-comics/#post-1013599 Thu, 16 Feb 2017 23:55:20 -0500 Hello Dina,

Thank you for your interest in our panel. For this collaborative panel between the Global Arab and Arab American Literature forum and the Comics and Graphic Narratives forum, we are looking for work that addresses comics/graphic narratives written by or about Arabs in or outside the U.S.

We hope you can submit something if this topic…[Read more]

]]> 0 cbbfe488786ac7fcb150514a9dc69a19 Dina Hassan replied to the topic CFP for 2018 MLA convention collaborative panel - Teaching Global Arab Comics in the discussion Global Arab and Arab American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-arab-and-arab-american/forum/topic/cfp-for-2018-mla-convention-collaborative-panel-teaching-global-arab-comics/#post-1013591 Thu, 16 Feb 2017 18:41:18 -0500 I was wondering if the proposal particularly specifies Global Arab comics or can we include other forms like global Arab fiction?

]]> 0 bf783c32f40cddc64e32fe4982b9e283 Pauline Homsi Vinson posted an update in the group CLCS Global Arab and Arab American: CFP for a Collaborative Session with Comics and Graphics […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1562333/ Wed, 15 Feb 2017 18:51:12 -0500 CFP for a Collaborative Session with Comics and Graphics Narrative forum at the 2018 MLA in NYC: Teaching Global Arab Comics in the U.S. Graphic narratives by/about Arabs: circulation, translation, critical/pedagogical reception; aesthetics/politics of representation, counternarrative; figurations of history, occupation, states of belonging.…[Read more]

]]> 0 ea3df3ee68a349be3e05e8225c354820 Hatem N. Akil posted an update in the group CLCS Global Arab and Arab American: The Global Arab and Arab American Forum (GAAM) is seeking to […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1559936/ Sat, 28 Jan 2017 03:19:25 -0500 The Global Arab and Arab American Forum (GAAM) is seeking to fill an open position on its Executive Committee. Elected members serve a 5-year term. Eligible nominees should be MLA members and should not be currently serving on another MLA Forum’s Executive Committee. Please check GAAM details at MLA Commons. You may send your nominations (…[Read more]

]]> 0 32b42870275446007114d99ce8fbb47a Isabelle Hesse replied to the topic CFP - Palestine in the International Imaginary, 1987-2017 in the discussion Global Arab and Arab American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-arab-and-arab-american/forum/topic/cfp-palestine-in-the-international-imaginary-1987-2017-3/#post-1012399 Wed, 30 Nov 2016 06:17:20 -0500 Yes, it’s going to be a one-day conference, to be held on Friday, 24th February.

]]> 0 6118d8e8e400ab7163b8021a613890d8 Hania Nashef replied to the topic CFP - Palestine in the International Imaginary, 1987-2017 in the discussion Global Arab and Arab American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-arab-and-arab-american/forum/topic/cfp-palestine-in-the-international-imaginary-1987-2017-3/#post-1012398 Wed, 30 Nov 2016 05:45:12 -0500 Is this a one-day conference or longer?

]]> 0 3fc8e1cf180f71778a7d4e09f25a1120 Isabelle Hesse started the topic CFP - Palestine in the International Imaginary, 1987-2017 in the discussion Global Arab and Arab American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-arab-and-arab-american/forum/topic/cfp-palestine-in-the-international-imaginary-1987-2017-3/ Tue, 29 Nov 2016 04:34:56 -0500 Palestine in the International Imaginary, 1987-2017

24<sup>th</sup> February 2017

John Woolley Common Room, Level 4, John Woolley Building

The University of Sydney, Australia

 

Organised by

Dr Isabelle Hesse, The Department of English, The University of Sydney

Dr Ben Etherington, The Writing and Society Research Centre, Western Sydney…[Read more]

]]> 0 d8a17e9887e6d72f8ea218b699caf985 Pauline Homsi Vinson started the topic MLA 2017 Panels organized by Global Arab and Arab American Literature Forum in the discussion Global Arab and Arab American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-arab-and-arab-american/forum/topic/mla-2017-panels-organized-by-global-arab-and-arab-american-literature-forum/ Thu, 03 Nov 2016 23:57:32 -0400  

Hello everyone,

We hope you will join us for the following panels organized for the 2017 MLA by the Global Arab and Arab American Literature Forum. They are as follows:

Session 200: States of In/Security: Global Palestine in Literature, Culture, Art, and Activism
Friday, 6 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 104B, Pennsylvania Convention Ce…[Read more]

]]> 0 3290bf6f41ea4370bdd4c71f92a37ac0 Pauline Homsi Vinson started the topic Suggest a nominee for the GAAM executive committee in the discussion Global Arab and Arab American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-arab-and-arab-american/forum/topic/suggest-a-nominee-for-the-gaam-executive-committee/ Thu, 03 Nov 2016 23:08:40 -0400 Dear members,

It is time to suggest nominations for a new committee member to the MLA Global Arab and Arab American Literature Forum’s current Executive Committee.

The procedure for nominations is outlined by Anna Chang and posted on 10 August 2016 on the MLA Commons’ “News from the MLA”: https://news.mla.hcommons.org/2016/08/10/nominations-for-t&hellip;[Read more]

]]> 0 0cece43b32139a0c2eadc8412062f42a Carol Zuses started the topic Suggest a nominee for Delegate Assembly representative! in the discussion Global Arab and Arab American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-arab-and-arab-american/forum/topic/suggest-a-nominee-for-delegate-assembly-representative/ Thu, 27 Oct 2016 18:04:23 -0400 Suggest a nominee for Delegate Assembly representative!

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2017, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive comm…[Read more]

]]> 0 dc531d5bb3218e1e4406aa32ed561c3d Keith Feldman started the topic Executive Committee Vision Statement in the discussion Global Arab and Arab American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-arab-and-arab-american/forum/topic/executive-committee-vision-statement/ Sun, 09 Oct 2016 20:55:35 -0400 As someone who began working in Arab American Studies in 2001, and has continued to be an active contributor to the field’s research and teaching, it is a real honor to be considered for a position on the executive board of the CLCS Global Arab and Arab American Forum. The scope, importance, and impact of Arab American Studies has grown r…[Read more]

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