CASAW Workshop Proceedings
Arabic on Campus & Beyond
25 April 2008 (University of Edinburgh)
A final report on the workshop is available for download as a PDF document here: CASAWArabiconCampus.pdf
New Directions in the Study of the Arab World
13-14 September 2007 (University of Edinburgh)
A final report on the workshop is available for download as a PDF document here: CASAWNewDirectionsReport.pdf
Fieldwork in the Middle East
12 February 2007 (University of Edinburgh)
A final report on the workshop, compiled by Yasir Suleiman and Paul Anderson, is available for download as a PDF document here: Fieldwork_in_the_Middle_East_Report-1.pdf
The Baylor Journal of Theatre and Performance (BJTP) seeks submissions
The Baylor Journal of Theatre and Performance (BJTP) seeks submissions for a special issue titled Performing Islam/Muslim Realities. Conceived as a collaborative project between the journal and the Arabic Theatre Working Group of the International Federation for Theatre Research, the issue is guest edited by Hazem Azmy (University of Warwick, UK) and Marvin Carlson (Graduate Center of CUNY, New York, US).
Popular Culture and Nationalism in Lebanon: The Fairouz and Rahbani Nation
Author(s) - Christopher Stone
Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures
Based on an award-winning thesis, this volume is a pioneering study of musical theatre and popular culture and its relation to the production of identity in Lebanon in the second half of the twentieth century.
In the aftermath of the departure of the French from Lebanon and the civil violence of 1958, the Rahbani brothers (Asi and Mansour) staged a series of folkloric musical theatrical extravaganzas at the annual Ba‘labakk festival which highlighted the talents of Asi’s wife, the Lebanese diva Fairouz, arguably the most famous living Arab singer. The inclusion of these folkloric vignettes into the festival’s otherwise European dominated cultural agenda created a powerful nation-building combination of what Partha Chatterjee calls the ‘appropriation of the popular’ and the ‘classicization of tradition.’
Contemporary Arab Women Writers: Cultural Expression in Context,
Author(s) - Anastasia Valassopoulos
Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
This book engages with contemporary Arab women writers from Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon and Algeria. In spite of Edward Said’s groundbreaking reappraisal of the uneven relationship between the West and the Arab world in Orientalism, there has been little postcolonial criticism of Arab writing. Anastasia Valassopoulos raises the profile of Arab women writers by examining how they negotiate contexts and experiences that have come to be identified with postcoloniality such as the preoccupation with Western feminism, political conflict and war, the social effects of non-conformity and female empowerment, and the negotiation of influential cultural discourses such as orientalism.
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Forthcoming Proceedings
Arab Art, Architecture and Material Culture: New Perspectives
31 August, 2007 (University of Edinburgh)
A final report on this workshop will be available soon.
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