The Global Arab and Arab American MLA Forum invites proposals for the following two panels at the MLA convention in Seattle, Washington (Jan 9-12, 2020):

1/ Poetics and Politics of Defeat: Reconfiguring the Human after the Arab Spring

Reconsiders representations of the human / inhuman / posthuman in relation to the Arab Spring and its aftermath. Papers welcome on Arab literary and cultural responses to defeat. Please send a 200 word abstract and CV to Ala A. Alryyes ([log in to unmask]) and Rasha Chatta ([log in to unmask]) by March 29, 2019.

2/ Orientalism, Philology, World Literature

Explores the origins of “World Literature” in colonial history, and develops new, decolonizing critical methodologies for a worlded literary studies. Papers welcome on any author, genre, period, field, region, tradition, etc. Please send a 200 word abstract and CV to Karim Mattar ([log in to unmask]) and Ahmed Idrissi Alami ([log in to unmask]) by March 29, 2019.

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Rasha Chatta

Fellow of EUROPE IN THE MIDDLE EAST- THE MIDDLE EAST IN EUROPE (EUME) 2017/19 at the Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin

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