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ONLINE | 10-Week Seminar: Building Bridges: Topics in Arabic Literature in Translation

The structure of this course is inspired by it’s Building Bridges theme. The course begins with foundational debates on marginalization in Arabic literature, followed by an exploration of the history of Arabic fiction in translation. This ensures that students grasp key issues before engaging with questions of translatability in week three, providing them with the necessary theoretical and conceptual tools to analyze classic texts. The Arabian Nights and Kalila wa Dimna offer significant case studies of Arabic literary history and cross-cultural circulation. The mid-section of the course, spanning weeks five to seven, bridges classical
and modern Arabic literature by examining its current reception in the Western market, followed by discussions on postcolonialism and literary resistance to the canon. The final weeks shift towards emerging themes in Arabic literature, including ecofeminism and exile. These topics engage with pressing discussions of displacement, identity, and the environment in global literary studies. Ending with Arabic literature and exile in the last week allows for a powerful closing discussion that ties together themes of translation, migration, and cultural adaptation. This reinforces the course’s central objective of exploring Arabic literature as a bridge across linguistic, cultural, and geographic divides.

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The Consortium’s Co-Led Online Seminars are taught by two endangered scholars – one who is hosted by a Consortium member institution, and the other a colleague of their choice. The seminars are designed to reconnect endangered scholars with the academic community they have lost while in exile and reengage students from around the world with professors they have lost. They are free and open to anyone anywhere in the world with an internet connection.

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Amin Ali 

Associate Professor of English

Thamar University, YEMEN

Dr. Amin Ali is currently an associate professor at the Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Thamar University in Yemen. He was formerly a postdoctoral researcher at GLA University, Mathura, India and received his PhD in 2014 from The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India. Dr. Ali's research interests include English literature, Arabic literature, literary theory, comparative literature, and literary translation.

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Mohammed Muharram

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Dhamar University, Yemen

Dr. Mohammed Muharram is currently a visiting postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bremen where he researches postcolonial studies and the blue humanities with specific reference to Arabic literature and culture. After earning his PhD in 2012 in Anglophone postcolonial studies from the English and Foreign Languages University (Hyderabad, India), Dr. Muharram worked as an Assistant Professor of English Literature at Thamar University (Yemen) where he also chaired the English Department at the Faculty of Education and directed Thamar University English Language Center for Translation and TOEFL Preparation. He taught widely in many public and private universities in Yemen.

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Full syllabus and readings are available on the New University in Exile Consortium website, linked here.

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Week 1

March 6

The Marginalization of Arabic Literature

Muharram, Mohammed. "The Marginalization of Arabic Fiction in the Postcolonial and World English Curriculum: Slips? Or Orientalism and Racism?" Minnesota Review, vol. 78, 2012, p. 130-145. Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/article/478955.

Week 2

March 13

Translatability of Arabic Literature

Johnson-Davies, Denys, et al. “On Translating Arabic Literature: An Interview with Denys Johnson-Davies.” Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 3, 1983, pp. 80–93. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/521657.

Week 3

March 20

 A History of Arabic Fiction in Translation

Khalifa, Abdel Wahab, and Ahmed Elgindy. "The reality of Arabic Fiction Translation into English: a Sociological Approach." International Journal of Society, Culture & Language 2.2 (Special Issue on Translation, Society and Culture) (2014): 41-56.‏ https://www.ijscl.net/article_5433_093e57e7ec35fd52e1fac99e5d62c1bf.pdf

Week 4

March 27

Current Status in the Western Market

Stanton, Anna Ziajka. “Introduction: From Embargo to Boom: The Changing World of Arabic Literature in English.” The Worlding of Arabic Literature: Language, Affect, and the Ethics of Translatability, 1st ed., Fordham University Press, 2023, pp. 1–26. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.1176747.4

Week 5

April 3

Writing Back to the Canon

Muharram, Mohammed. "Challenging the Center: Writing Back to the Canon with Specific Reference to Tayeb Saleh’s Season Migration to the North” Journal of Yemen Academy for Graduate Studies. 2018:1-13. https://tinyurl.com/4hvaskmw

Week 6

April 10

The Arabian Nights and Kalila wa Dimna

Marroum, Marianne. “Kalila wa Dimna: Inception, Appropriation, and Transmimesis.” Comparative Literature Studies, vol. 48, no. 4, 2011, pp. 512–540, https://doi.org/10.5325/complitstudies.48.4.0512

Week 7

April 17

Arabic Literature in Translation and History

Hezam, Abdulrahman M. M. “Zayd Mutee Dammaj's Approach to History in the Hostage.” Arab World English Journal for Translation & Literary Studies, vol. 2, no. 2, 2018, pp.133-141. https://awej-tls.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/9.pdf

Week 8

April 24

Arabic Literature and Ecofeminism

Elrefaei , Pervine. “Arabic Literature and Ecofeminism.” The Routledge Handbook of Ecofeminism and Literature, 2022, pp. 25–36. https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Ecofeminism-and-Literature/Vakoch/p/book/9781032050119

Week 9

May 1

Arabic Literature and the Postcolonial

Ai-Nowaihi, M.M. (2005). The “Middle East”? Or … /Arabic Literature and the Postcolonial Predicament. In A Companion to Postcolonial Studies (eds H. Schwarz and S. Ray). https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470997024.ch15

Week 10

May 8

Arabic Literature and Exile

Sellman, Johanna. “Introduction: Speculative Belongings in Contemporary Arabic Migration Literature.” Arabic Exile Literature in Europe: Defamiliarizing Forced Migration, Edinburgh University Press, 2022, pp. 1–21. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctv32vqmh7.5

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