The Tunisia Office of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University in collaboration with Nadwa Seminar: Tunisia, the Mediterranean and Beyond invite you to:
"Mapping the Medina in Tunisian Historical Novels"
A Lecture by:
Prof. William Granara
Research Professor of the Practice of Arabic at Harvard University
Former Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
Discussant:
Houssem Eddine Chachia
Assistant Professor of History at the University of Tunis
Inaugural Hazem Ben-Gacem Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies 2017-18
Prof. William E. Granara is Research Professor of the Practice of Arabic at Harvard University in the Departments of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and Comparative Literature. He is also the founding director of the Postcolonial Studies Program of the Harvard Summer School: France and the Arab World, in Aix-en-Provence, France. Granara specializes in the literature and history of the Arab Mediterranean, both medieval and modern. He has written extensively on Muslim Sicily and is the author of two monographs, Narrating Muslim Sicily: War and Peace in the Medieval Mediterranean World (2019) and Ibn Hamdis the Sicilian: Eulogist for a Falling Homeland (2021). He is also co-editor of the recently published The Thousand and One Nights: Sources and Transformations in Literature, Art, and Science (2020).
In addition, he lectures and writes on contemporary Arabic literature and has published translations of several Arabic novels into English: The Earthquake (2000); Granada (2004); and The Battle of Poitiers (2011). His work in literary criticism focuses on postcolonialism and intercultural poetics. His articles include: "Nostalgia, Arab Nationalism, and the Andalusian Chronotope in the Development of the Modern Arabic Novel" (2005); "Nile Crossings: Hospitality and Revenge in Egyptian Rural Narratives" (2010); "A Room of One's Own: The Modern Arab Heroine between Career and Domesticity" (2014); and "The Mediterranean in North African Literature: Contesting Views" (2019).
Nadwa Seminar: Tunisia, the Mediterranean, and Beyond is an independent academic and scientific platform designed to foster a prominent environment for the exchange of ideas and knowledge among researchers from various geographical areas and research fields. To learn more about Nadwa, visit: https://nadwaseminar.org/
This event is hosted as part of Nadwa’s series of hybrid Seminars; it is co-sponsored by Harvard CMES Tunisia, Nadwa Seminar, Blue Fish, Dar Ben Gacem, and Tourath.
The talk will be held in person and online. Admission Free to the Harvard CMES Tunisia Office (Find us: here)
To attend the session online, please register via the following Zoom link: here
Questions: contact@nadwaseminar.org// cmes_tunisia@fas.harvard.edu.
LOCATION:Tunisia Office, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20240510T210000Z DTEND:20240510T230000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR