Presentations

1: Against Identity: Arab Surrealism at the End of the Twentieth Century

Anna Levett, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

2: Theorizing (Mis)Translation in Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq’s al-Sāq ʿālā al-sāq fī mā huwa al-Fāriyāq (1855)

Matthew Brauer, Northwestern U

3: Imagining Anticapitalist Networks in Arabic in Late-Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Beirut and Cairo

Elizabeth M. Holt, Bard C

Presider

Hoda El Shakry, Penn State U, University Park

Respondent

Hoda El Shakry, Penn State U, University Park