Arabic Literature Colloquium Fall 2015
Modern Arabic Poetry and Theory
October 22nd – 23rd
Location: Baker Scholars Conference Room, Room 550, Regent’s Hall 5th Floor
Organized by:
Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych,
Sultan Qaboos bin Said Professor of Arabic & Islamic Studies, Georgetown University
&
Hussain Walid Abulfaraj
Assistant Professor of Arabic Literature, King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah
Visiting Researcher, Georgetown University
Program
Modern Arabic Poetry and Theory
Sponsored by the Sakka Family Fund
Department of Arabic & Islamic Studies, Georgetown University
Organized by:
Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych,
Sultan Qaboos bin Said Professor of Arabic & Islamic Studies, Georgetown University
&
Hussain Walid Abulfaraj
Assistant Professor of Arabic Literature, King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah
Visiting Researcher, Georgetown University
Session I: Thursday 22 October, 2:30-5:00 pm
Paper 1: Arab Solidarity and the Sacrifice of Palestine
Yaseen Noorani, Associate Professor of Arabic Literature, University of Arizona
Paper 2: The Pre-Oil Aesthetics: The Identification of the Poet and the Palm Tree in Muhammad Al-Thubaiti’s The Place of Sand /The Place of Alliteration
Hatim Alzahrani, PhD Candidate, Georgetown University
Paper 3: Poetic Recycling of the Arab Literary Heritage
Ferial J. Ghazoul, Professor of Arabic Literature, American University, Cairo
Panel Discussion: Thursday, October 22, 5:30-7:30
(Reception to follow)
Toward a New Aesthetics: Panel Discussion of Qassim Haddad’s
“The Music of Poetic Composition”
Moderator: Suzanne Stetkevych, Georgetown University
Panelists:
Ferial Ghazoul, American University in Cairo
Hatem al-Zahrani, Georgetown University
Huda Fakhreddine, University of Pennsylvania
Muhammad Shawkat al-Ahmad, Georgetown University
Muhsin al-Musawi, Columbia University
Session II: Friday 23 October, 9:00 am-12:30 pm
Paper 1: Fadwa Tuqan’s Poetics of Writing
Boutheina Khaldi, Associate Professor of Arabic and Translations Studies, American University of Sharjah
Paper 2: War and Peace in Modern Iraqi Poetry from 1970-1990
Faraj Hattab Hamdan, PhD Candidate, University of Arizona
[coffee break]
Paper 3: The Poetics of Narrative in Mahmoud Darwish’s In the Presence of Absence
Muhammad Shawkat al-Ahmad, Lecturer in Arabic Literature, Georgetown University
Paper 4: In Search of the Arabic Prose Poem
Huda Fakhreddine, Assistant Professor of Arabic Literature, University of Pennsylvania
Session III: Friday 23 October, 2-4:30 pm
Paper 1: Binding Diegesis in the Poetry of Talal Haidar
Enass Khansa, PhD, Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow for the Santiago de Compostela Project
Paper 2: The Reception of the Great Hymn to the Aten in Modern Arabic Poetry
Aya Bassiouny, PhD Candidate, Indiana University
Paper 3: Textual Poetics
Muhsin Al-Musawi, Professor of Arabic Literature, Columbia University, New York
Closing Remarks and Reception: 4:30-5:30