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The Tunisia Office of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University invites you to:
A HISTORY OF PRISON LITERATURE IN THE MAGHREB
A Lecture by:
Yosra Amraoui, Assistant Professor of English at the Higher Institute of Languages of Tunis.
Hazem Ben-Gacem Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard CMES, 2022
Discussant:
Nader Uthman, Senior Preceptor in Arabic and Director of the Modern Language Programs, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
About the Keynote Speaker:
Yosra Amraoui holds a PhD in English Language, Literature and Civilization from the University of Manouba, Tunisia. Her areas of research and teaching revolve around Historiography, Media Studies and Literature. She is Assistant Professor and the head of a master’s program in English for Communication at the High Institute of Languages of Tunis, is an entrepreneurship coach, a conference interpreter and a consultant in countering violent extremism (CVE). She co-edited two volumes with Cambridge Scholars Publishing: On History and Memory in Arab Literature and Western Poetics (2020) and Poetics of the Native (2021) and has published a number of articles on the history and identity of British and American Jews and their role in the creation of Israel. She earned a post-doc position at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University in 2022-2023 and is currently undertaking research on political prison literature in the Maghreb region.
This event will be held in person.
Admission Free
