Tents in the Desert – Schedule
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THURSDAY, APRIL 28
2:00-4:00pm: Panel 1: Writing the Desert
CCAS Boardroom, ICC 241
- Ali Abdullatif Ahmida, University of New England, “Al-Koni’s Saharan Imagination: Engaging Modernity, History, and The Nation-State”
- Sharif Elmusa, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar, “The Ecological Bedouin: Ibn Khaldun and Desert Literature”
- Miriam Cooke, Duke University, “Writing the Tribal Modern”
- Chair: Elliott Colla
4:00-5:00pm: Wine and Cheese Reception
with book sale
Copley Formal Lounge
5:00-6:30pm: Readings with Author and Translators
(in Arabic and English)
Copley Formal Lounge
FRIDAY, APRIL 29
8:30-9:00am: Welcome and Breakfast
CCAS Boardroom, ICC 241
9:00-10:30am: Panel 2: Myths of the Desert
CCAS Boardroom, ICC 241
- Sa’id al-Ghanimi, independent scholar, Australia, “From Desert Epic to Lost Dimension Novel” (In Arabic)
- Miral Al-Tahawy, Appalachian State University, “Desert Codes… The Lost Sacred of the Tuareg”
- Chair: Rochelle Davis
10:30-10:45am: Coffee break
10:45-12:15pm: Panel 3: Signs and Wonders
CCAS Boardroom, ICC 241
- William Hutchins, Appalachian State University, “Al-Koni’s Demons”
- Luc Deheuvels, INALCO, Paris, “Signs and Languages in Ibrahim al-Koni’s Works” (In Arabic)
- Chair: Roger Allen
2:00-3:30pm: Panel 4: The Spiritual Horizon
CCAS Boardroom, ICC 241
- Hartmut Fähndrich, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, “Cain and Abel – the Biblical and Coranic Myth Basic to Ibrahim al-Koni’s Works”
- Amira El-Zein, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar, “Unity of Existence in the Work of Ibrahim al-Koni”
- Chair: Amin Bonnah