Presentations

1: Tawfiq al-Hakim, Taha Husayn, and the Idea of ‘Greece’ in the Modern Egyptian Imaginary

Adam Spanos, U of Chicago

2: Al-Rihla al-Ma’ayniya: The Saharan Shaikh Encounters Colonialism and Pan-Islamic Resistance in Egypt

July Blalack, SOAS, U of London

3: Al-Bayātī’s ‘Umar Al-Khayyām and Global Arab Literary Modernity

Levi Thompson, U of Colorado, Boulder

4: Shukri’s Tangier: The Global and the Local in Arab Modernity

Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo, Oakland U

Presider

Karim Mattar, U of Colorado, Boulder