CALL FOR PAPERS: The_Nakba_ in the Wake of Said” at the 2008 MLA Convention
The Modern Language Association (MLA) Discussion Group on Arabic
Literature and Culture invites paper proposals for a panel on the topic “The_Nakba_ in the Wake of Said” at the 2008 MLA Convention, to be held 27-30 December 2008 in San Francisco, CA. Sixty years after 1948, how does the dispossession of Palestine figure in Arabic culture-through and beyond the lens of Edward Said? Papers on all media and on all parts of the Arabic-speaking world welcome. Please send 500-word abstracts and vitae by 7 March 2008 to Shaden M. Tageldin (tageldin_at_umn.edu). mla.org
