Esty G. Hayim
Author; Teaches creative writing at Seminar Hakibutzim College, Israel... Read more about "I have no mother tongue, only my adopted language is my home"

The CMES Working Group on Middle East Literature in Transition: New Frontiers in the 21st Century is pleased to present the conference

Middle Eastern Literatures in the 21st Century

Organized by CMES Director William Granara... Read more about Middle Eastern Literatures in the 21st Century

The Israeli Law, Literature, and Society Seminar Series is pleased to present

Ilana Szobel
Assistant Professor on the Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Chair in Hebrew Literature, Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University... Read more about Transparent Skin: The Work of Dahlia Ravikovitch

The CMES Director's Series is pleased to present

Mai Al-Nakib
Associate Professor, Department of English Language & Literature, Graduate Program in Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies, College of Arts, Kuwait University... Read more about The Hidden Light of Objects (book talk)

The Department of Comparative Literature cordially presents
 

Chad Kia
Harvard University

On the intersection of the visual language of pictorial representation and the verbal imagery of poetic description--particularly in the allegorical form--the paper will focus on the literary and visual cultures of mysticism in the eastern Islamic world of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The phenomenal rise in the popularity of mysticism in the post-Mongolian-invasion Islamic world had by the fifteenth century resulted in the penetration of Sufi discourse into the language of literary works, not least those commissioned for illustration. What followed--the main topic of this presentation--is the advent of allegorical painting based on the contemporary literary discourse of Islamic mysticism and an intertextual system of signification that united literary discourse and esoteric religious practice over a period of centuries.... Read more about Figurative and Figural Allusions in the Medieval Literature of Persian Sufism

CMES is pleased to present 

Maher Jarrar
Professor at the American University of Beirut, in both the Civilization Sequence Program and the Department of Arabic. He is Director of the Anis Makdisi Program in Literature. Currently, he is the Shawwaf Visiting Professor at Harvard University. Professor Jarrar has published extensively on both classical and modern Arabic literature.... Read more about The Harbor of Narrative: Beirut, the Novel, and the Memory of War (talk in Arabic)

The Moroccan Studies Forum is pleased to present

Pierre Joris
Poet and Translator
Professor of English, SUNY Albany, NY... Read more about The Making of "Diwan Ifrikiya," or How to Put 2500 Years of Maghrebian Literature into One Book