Cultural Representations of Post-Coloniality

References

Arab World Reference

Maps

Maps

Class Schedule

• course outline (including schedule)

Arab poetry talk

Readings

• al-Jabarti
• Tahtawi

• The Nahda, Popular Fiction And The Politics Of Translation
• "Orientalism Definition"

• Orientalism Reconsidered, by Edward Said
• Naguib Mahfouz

• Mahmoud Drwish

• Mahmoud Darwish and Yehuda Amichai

• more of Darwish

• Bakr
• Colonial Harem
• Construction of Masculinity
• Idris
• Male Homosexuality

Audio/Visual materials

Edward Said on Orientalism:

Part 1:

Part 2:

Part 3:

Part 4: