Middle Eastern Literatures lecture series

Comparative Approaches to Middle Eastern Literatures
A lecture series organized by the Arabic Literature Colloquium

Monday, September 28
5:00-7:00PM
"Surviving Images: War, Memory and Trauma in Lebanese and Iranian Cinemas"
Kamran Rastegar
Assistant Professor of Arabic, Tufts University
Hagop Kevorkian Center Library


Monday, October 12
5:00-7:00PM
"A Letter Named Jīm"
Michael Beard
Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of North Dakota
1st Floor Great Room, 19 University Place


Friday, October 30
12:30-1:45PM
"A Genre Without Borders? The Arabic Ghazal and its Persian Cousin"
Dominic Parviz Brookshaw
Lecturer in Persian Studies and Iranian Literature, University of Manchester
Hagop Kevorkian Center Library


Monday, November 16
4:00-6:00PM
"Thou Shalt Not Translate Me"
Abdelfattah Kilito
Professor of French and Arabic Literature, Université Mohammed V, Rabat
1st Floor Great Room, 19 University Place


All events are free and open to the public.

Info: adabNYU@gmail.com

Sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature and the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, with funding and support from the Humanities Initiative.

Additional support provided by the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies