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The Impossibility of the Rhetoric of Partition in Zionist Literature

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The CMES Director's Series is pleased to present Hannan Hever Jacob & Hilda Blaustein Prof of Hebrew Language & Literature, Professor of Comparative Literature, Yale University Hannan Hever is Blaustein Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature at Yale...

Former CMES Associate Wins Literature Prize

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The Tamer Institute, founded by former CMES research associate Munir Fasheh, recently won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the world's largest prize for children's literature. Read more about the honor at Gaza Group Wins Top Children's Literature Prize...

Middle Eastern Literatures in the 21st Century

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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 This conference will assess...

Figurative and Figural Allusions in the Medieval Literature of Persian Sufism

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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...

The Thousand and One Nights: Sources and Transformations in Literature, Art, and Science

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The Thousand and One Nights does not fall into a scholarly canon or into the category of popular literature. It takes its place within a middle literature that circulated widely in medieval times. The Nights gradually entered world literature through the...

The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures

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The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies' Sohbet-i Osmani Lecture Series present The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures A book talk by C. Ceyhun Arslan, Koç...

The Ascendant Field: Critical Engagements with Ottoman Arabic Literature

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The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (NELC), the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) present the workshop The Ascendant Field Critical Engagements with Ottoman Arabic...

The "Longue Durée" of Arabic Literature, a conference in celebration of William Granara

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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...

Arabic Modernism: Adonis, Elegies, and World Literature

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The CMES Director's Series presents Robyn Creswell Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature, Yale University Contact: Liz Flanagan Save Save Save Save Save

Israeli Law, Literature, and Society

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From 2008 to 2018, this seminar series has focused on Israeli culture and society at Harvard—a joint endeavor of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Center for Jewish Studies. The goal of the seminar is to stimulate academic debate about the...

Gezi Protests and Turkish Literature: Towards New Artistic Frontiers

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The CMES Working Group on Middle East Literature in Transition: New Frontiers in the 21st Century is pleased to present Ceyhun Arslan Ceyhun Arslan is a second-year PhD student in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, and has...

A City of Many Faces: Architecture, Literature & Memory of My Diverse Hometown of Haifa

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The CMES Israeli Law, Literature and Society Seminar Series presents Nili Gold Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania The city of Haifa’s structure is tied to political and...