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Kamran Rastegar deposited Trauma and Maturation in Women’s War Narratives: The Eye of the Mirror and Cracking India in the group
LLC West Asian on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months agoA comparative study of Liana Badr’s The Eye of the Mirror and Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India shows that these two novels present intriguingly similar feminist frameworks through which the traumas of war and communal violence may be addressed. They do so by erasing the distinction between literary work and critical social history, producing what we…[Read more]
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Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to
LLC West Asian on MLA Commons 4 years agoThe Comparative World Literature program at CSULB is excited to announce a new tenure-track position. We are looking for a colleague whose research is in the medical or health humanities and who could teach courses in our health humanities minor (that we are constructing at this very moment), such as Literature and Medicine. We are particularly…[Read more]
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Ghenwa Hayek posted an update in the group
LLC West Asian on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months agoGraduate students, please apply! Those who teach grad students, please circulate this CfP for MEHAT:
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 East from…[Read more] -
Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for the Forum's First Delegate Election in the discussion
West Asian Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThe first 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 committee is responsible for making nominations, it is req…[Read more]
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Suha Kudsieh started the topic Endorsing the new forum on Global Arab and Arab American in the forum
West Asian Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoHello everyone,
I would like to ask those of you who are current MLA members to take a couple of minutes of your time to endorse the new MLA forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature and Culture. All you have to do is follow the four steps I listed below.
You don’t need to be working on Global Arab or Arab American to endorse the new…[Read more]
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Suha Kudsieh started the topic Reminder: Pls. cast your vote: MLA Resolution 2014-1 in the forum
West Asian Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoDear Colleagues,
Please remember to cast your vote concerning Resolution 2014-1. Regardless of how you intend to cast your vote, please vote.
You can read the MLA Executive Director’s letter, Rosemary G. Feal, here: http://t.e2ma.net/message/mx8ig/yum5sh
Please click on http://t.e2ma.net/click/mx8ig/yum5sh/6c2vcc (you need to log into your…[Read more]
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Stephen Sheehi uploaded the file: ABSTRACTS: Language, Colonialism, and the State in Nineteenth Century Southwest Asia to
West Asian Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoJeff Sacks (UC Irvine)
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