February 10, 9:30 am
Ingraham 206
Youssef Rakha will be discussing his new book, The Dissenters (the first novel he has composed in English, amidst a career of writing Arabic novels and English nonfiction), as well as his critique of the landmark Egyptian neorealist film The Mummy.
His work explores language and identity in the context of Cairo, and reflects connections with the Arab-Islamic canon and world literature. He has worked in many genres in both Arabic and English, and is known for his essays and poems as well as his novels.
Sponsored by the Department of African Cultural Studies, the African Studies Program, with the support from the Lectures Committee and College of Letters and Science Jay C. and Ruth Hall Visiting Scholar Fund.
Free and open to the public.