Cultural Representations of Post-Coloniality

References

Arab World Reference

Maps

Maps

Arab World

Class Schedule

course outline (including schedule)

Arab poetry

Arab poetry talk

Required Readings

• al-Jabarti
• Tahtawi
• Sharabi: Arab Intellectuals and the West
• The Culture of Imperialism and Reform (Albert Hourani)
• Naguib Mahfouz
• Mahmoud Darwish and Yehuda Amichai
• more of Darwish
• Bakr
• Assia Djebar
• Sargon Boulus

Optional Readings

• "Orientalism Definition"

• Orientalism Reconsidered, by Edward Said
• The Nahda, Popular Fiction And The Politics Of Translation
• "Orientalism Definition"

• Orientalism Reconsidered, by Edward Said
• Naguib Mahfouz

• Mahmoud Darwish and Yehuda Amichai

• more of Darwish

• Amira Hass

• Marcel Khalife

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

• The Culture of Imperialism and Reform (Albert Hourani)

• Assia Djebar

• Sargon Boulus

Audio/Visual materials

The Tower

Suzanne Tamim

Young Suzanne

The original song

Tamim as a star

Garima

Hishan Talaat Mostafa

Booker- Abu Dhabi

A Desert Louvre?

Umm Kulthoum- Rabi'a Al- Adawiyya (died c. 752)- Ala Ainy

Umm Kulthoum- Rabi'a Al- Adawiyya (died c. 752)- Araft Elhawa

Alrida wa Alnour

Karima Sakalli- Rabi'a Al- Adawiyya (died c. 752)- I Love you twice

Edward Said on Orientalism:

Orientalism

Richard Burton

On Orientalism 1/4

On Orientalism 2/4

On Orientalism 3/4

On Orientalism 4/4

Bachir Gemayel Interview

Phalangists / Lebanese Forces doing their Holy and Patriotic Duty

Palestine - Sabra & Shatila - Roots of Blood

Li Beirut by Fairouz (Fayrouz)

Witness in The Warzone

West Bayrouth 1

West Bayrouth 2

West Bayrouth 3

West Bayrouth 4

West Bayrouth 5

West Bayrouth 6

West Bayrouth 7

West Bayrouth 8

West Bayrouth 9

West Bayrouth 10

West Bayrouth 11

West Bayrouth 12

Iraq

Lawrence of Arabia

assyrian