Ingraham 206 @ 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Professor Shereen Abouelnaga (Cairo University) looks at how women writers create their sense of self through stories that are often broken, layered, and full of contradictions. She uses cross-stitching—both as a real craft and a metaphor—to show how women piece together identity, memory, and voice across different times and places.
Ingraham 206 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Choukri blends harsh realism with creative storytelling, following Zola’s idea that literature should be rooted in real human experience. His stories reveal the difficult truths of poverty, oppression, and social exclusion, rejecting idealized portrayals.
Ingraham 206 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Dr. Wortmann (Wake Forest University) will speak on her current research, which focuses on networks of Islamic schools and charities in Zanzibar, Tanzania, and Oman run by Ibadhis, a Muslim minority community.
Online via Zoom @ 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Maha Nassar is associate professor in the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Arizona. Her research focuses on the cultural and intellectual history of the modern Arab world.
