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The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is pleased to present
The Longue Durée of Arabic Literature, a conference in celebration of William Granara
This conference will bring together those who have worked with Professor Granara on Arabic literature to showcase the depth and breadth of their scholarship, which covers the vast terrain of Arabic literature, in all its continuities and disruption, spanning medieval and modern eras.
Download conference program here.
Speakers will include:
Ali Asgar Alibhai (UT Dallas)
Allison Blecker Al-Masri (Geneva Global)
Sinan Antoon (NYU)
Ceyhun Arslan (Koç University)
Daniel Behar (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Eric Calderwood (Univ of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Phoebe Carter (Harvard PhD candidate)
David DiMeo (Western Kentucky Univ)
Haci Osman Gunduz (Harvard PhD candidate)
Gregory Halaby (Harvard)
Luke Leafgren (Harvard)
Laila Parsons (McGill)
Benjamin Smith (Swarthmore)
Jonathan Smolin (Dartmouth)
Conference program:
Thursday, November 3, 2022
4:15-6:30pm
Friday, November 4, 2022
9:30am-5:00pm
Co-sponsors: Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations and the Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
Contact: Liz Flanagan