Indiana University Arabic Literature Workshop
Upcoming Indiana Arabic Literature Workshops
Fall 2012 Indiana Arabic Literature Workshop
Indiana University
Friday and Saturday, November 30 – December 1, 2012
Workshop events are conducted entirely in Arabic
Free and open to the public
Friday and Saturday, November 30 – December 1, 2012
Workshop events are conducted entirely in Arabic
Free and open to the public
Workshop Director: Professor Suzanne P. Stetkevych
Program Committee: Abdulmueen Balfas, Mohammad Alqanaei, and Al Amein Alshereif
Program of Events
Opening Reception
Friday, November 30, 2012
3:30 PM – 5:30 PM
President's Room, University Club, Indiana Memorial Union
Workshop Panels
Saturday, December 1, 2012
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Ballantine 006
Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM – 9:15 AM
Panel I
9:15 AM – 10:45 AM
- Abdulhameed Gadoua, Indiana University
"A Metrical Study of the Muʿallaqah of Imru al-Qays and the Muʿallaqah of Zuhayr ibn Abī Sulmā" - Hassan Bokhari, Indiana University
"Praising and Satirizing Authority: Two Poems by Ḥassān ibn Thābit and al-Farazdaq" - Mohammad Alqanaei, Indiana University
"Qaṣīdat al-Fakhr and the Destabilization of the Umayyad State: A Qaṣīdah by al-Nuʿmān ibn Bashīr al-Anṣārī"
Coffee Break
10:45 AM – 11:00 AM
Panel II 11:00 AM – 12:45 PM
- Ali Alnahhabi, Indiana University
"Performing the Qaṣīdah: A Study of the Arabic Traditions of Reciting Poetry" - Ahmad Almallah, Indiana University/Middlebury College
"Bashshār ibn Burd’s Ghazal and the Muḥdath Project" - Fahd Alebdha, Indiana University
"Identity and Ethnicity: Arab-Persian Conflict and the Ode of Ismāʿīl ibn Yasār" - Al Amein Alshereif, Indiana University
"Beyond Imitation: Bānat Suʿād of Kaʿb ibn Zuhayr and Muḥammad ibn Jābir"
Lunch
12:45 PM – 1:45 PM
Panel III
1:45 PM – 3:15 PM
- Abdulmueen Balfas, Indiana University
"Al-Bārūdī’s Panegyric to Khedive Tawfīq: Praising the Ummah through Praising the Ruler" - Nana Aba Bentil-Mawusi, Indiana University
"In Praise of the King: A Comparative Study of African and Arabic Praise Poetry" - Bilal Maanaki, Indiana University/University of Virginia
"The Trajectory of Isnād in the Stories of Majnūn Laylā across Ten Centuries"
Tea
3:15 PM – 3:30 PM
Panel IV
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
- Anwar Alsaad, Indiana University
"The Literary Movement and the History of Journalism in Kuwait" - Waed Athamneh, Indiana University/Connecticut College
"Aḥmad ʿAbd al-Muʿṭī Ḥijāzī’s Search for a Poetic Voice" - Eman Alsalem, Indiana University
"Negation in the Poetry of Fahd al-ʿAskar"
The Workshop is grateful for outside support from
The late Professor Alice Reid Jwaideh
Dr. Robert C. and Bridget McKinney
Al-Babtain Central Library for Poetry, Kuwait
