MEALAC | Muhsin Al-Musawi Lectures

Muhsin Jassim Al-Musawi

Professor of Arabic Literature

ma2188@columbia.edu
212-854-4732
MEALAC, Kent Hall 605
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The Keynote Address, The American University of Beirut Conference on Khalil Hawi, 6-8 June, 2007.

‘The Islamic Dynamic in Literary Production,” The University of Chicago , October 2006.

Lecture: The Postcolonial Arabic Novel, and the Global Challenge, Yale University Seminar, April 28, 2006.

Reading Iraq: Culture and Power in Conflict. The University of Wisconsin-Madison, 17 April, 2006

Arab Literary Modernity, Vassar College, Spring , March 6, 2006.

Scheherazade’s Nonverbal Narrative, Harvard University seminar on The Thousand and One Nights, 22 April, 2005.

“The West’s Others…..” Arizona University, 25 April, 2005.

“History and the Novel,” The Supreme Council for Culture Conference in Egypt, Feb. 23/ 2005.

As discussant for the Social Sciences Conference, American University of Sharjah, Feb. 6, 2005.

MESA Seminars on Iraq, and Arabic Poetry, a paper, and discussions, Nov. 2005, Washington

“Modernity and Tradition in Arabic Literature, “Bridgewater College, October 26, 2004.

“Iraqi Literature: Allegory of Space,” The Owais Cultural Foundation Lecture, 11 October, 2004, Dubai.

The Frankfurt Book Fair lecture on Images of Others in Arabic Literature, October 10, 2004.

“The Text in Context: The Reception of Galland’s Thousand Nights,” Institut national des langues et civilizations orientales& Unesco, Colloque, 26 May 2004.

“Representations of Women in Arabic Literature,” McNeese University, Lake Charles, L. 16 March, 2004.

“Towards Reform in the Arab World,” Alexandria Library Collogue, 12-14 March 2004.

“Translation in the formation of the Arab awakening,” Feb. 20, 2004, The Writers’ Union, UAE, Sharjah.

“Edward Said and the Unfinished Awakening,” Magrudy Enterprises 14-18 Feb. 2004, Dubai.

“Arabic Culture at Crossroads,” The Supreme Council for Culture, Cairo, 26 Feb. 2004.

“The Role of Alf Layla in Arabic Popular Culture,”AUS International Conference on Middle East and North African Popular Culture, in collaboration with Oxford University, 25 Jan. 2004.

The Workshop on Postcolonial Studies, University of Naples, 6-15 Feb. 2004.

“Translation in a Global Age,’’ 19 Dec. 2003, Sharjah World Book Fair, Expo Center.

“The Wadie Jwaideh Memorial Lecture in Arabic and Islamic Studies,” Indiana University, Nov. 12, 2003

“Edward said: A Thinker and Critic,” Al-Khaleej Daily and Owais Cultural Foundation 10 Nov. 2003.

“Identity and Globalization,” Across-Curriculum Lecture, Zayed University, 10 October 2003.

“The Spatial Dimension and the Urban Outlook in Arabic Narrative,” 18-22 October 2003, Supreme Council for Culture.

“Modern Arabic Poetry,” Inaugural lecture, Rabat, Ministry of Culture, on the occasion of the Rabat as the Cultural capital, May 28, 2003.

“Creativity in a Dissenting Context,” Belgi University in Istanbul, 22-23 May, 2003.

“Arabic Cultural rebirth,” UAE Writer’s Union, May 2003.

“Whither Classical Prose,” Columbia University Seminar Series, April 28, 2003.

“The Narrative effort in context,” The Sharjah Cultural Office Conference, Dec. 2002, the Modern Novel in UAE.

“The Qasidah and Postclassical Poetics,” MESA, Nov. 2002

Discussant for the Seminar, “Writers of Conscience,” MESA, Nov. 2002.

“The Thousand and One Nights: The State of the Art: Les mille et une nuits, colloque international de literature comparée, 30, 31 October- 2 November, 2002, faculté des letters et des scinces humaines/Rabat- Institiut Fran³ais de Rabat.

“The Thousand and One Nights in Arabic Literature,” as above.

“Scheherazade’s Non-Verbal Narrative,” in London University /SOAS Workshop Series; Genre Ideologies, 8-10 April, 2002.

-“Al-Mutanabbi and al-Ma‘arri Recollected: Engagement with the Classical in Modern Arabic Poetry,” MESA, San Francisco, Nov.2001, to appear in Journal of Arabic Literature , 2002.

Narrating Sexuality in the Arabian Nights,” Duke University, Asian and African Languages and Literatures, 29 August, 2001(Invited Lecture).

“Classical and Postclassical Prose,” American Research Center in Egypt, 36 May, 2001, Cairo (Invited Lecture).

“Postcolonial Poetics: Masks and Identities in Modern Arabic Poetry,” ACLA , Colorado Univ. Conference, April 18-22, 2001

“Chancellery Tarassul,’’ MccGill University Lecture, Islamic Institute, 11 Jan. 2001(Invited Lecture).

“ ‘Abd al-Wahhab Al-Bay?t’s Poetics of Exile,”MESA Convention, Orlando. Read in absentia, Florida, 17 -18, Nov.2000

“ Appropriation of the Alien,’’ Zurich University Conference, Oct.2000

The Invited Lectures on Arabic Fiction, Orientalism, and Poetry, Napoli University for Oriental Studies, Italy, 28-30, March 2000.

The Bellagio Rockefeller Lecture, “Which Sense of Be-Longing?’’Aug.1999

“Towards a Theory of Exchange in Arabic Literature,” Washington University, Saint Louis, 19 February. 1999.

Lecture on “Culture, Containment, and Dissent,” 23 Sept., 1998, Rutgers University, N.J (Invited Lecture).

Lecture on “The Challenge of the Modern and After in Arabic Poetry,” 8 Sept., 1998, Indiana University, Bloomington: Colloquium on Texts and Issues in Modern Middle Eastern Poetries (Invited lectures).

Poetry Reading, 9 Sept., 1998, Indiana University, Lilly Library.

“Dedications: Working with Shadows and Anxieties of Influence,” 10 Sept., 1998 Indiana University.

“Re-defining History and Culture in Iraq,” 18 Aug. 1998. Middle East Institute, Washington, D.C (Invited Lecture).

The Arabic Novel/ The City Conference, October, 18-22, 2003, Supreme Council for Culture

The Mahfuz Seminar in Cairo, Jan.- Feb. 2002, lecturer and chair

The Salah Abd al-Sabur Seminar in Cairo, October 2001

Women Literature, Iraqi Women writers, Women Conference, Cairo, November.2000.

Tangier, Morocco, Asila Seminar,on the poet Buland al-Haydari, 2001.

Tawfiq al-Hakim Seminar Nov.-Dec.1998 (Cairo: Supreme Council for   Culture, SCFC) 1998 Seminar on the Novel (Cairo: SCFC)

“Inaugural Address: Post?]Modernity and Tradition,” Ministry of Culture, Jordan, (22-23 July1998).

“Elite and Dissent: The case of Arabic culture since the Twenties," Cairo,

The Supreme Council for Culture (SCFC; 12 May1996).

  The Cairo Session on Poetry." Intertextualizing Modern Arabic Poetry and Poetics." Panel Organized   by SCFC.

The Cairo Book Fair Cultural Seminar (Feb.), "Is there a New Cultural Order?"1995.

Al-Tawhidi's Conference, Cairo (Oct.), "Al-Tawhidi's Narrative and the

Theory of Narrative Writing in Arabic," SCFC.

The Cairo Book Fair Cultural Seminar (Jan.), "The Future of Culture in the 21st Century."1994.

The ALECSO Seminar in Beirut (Oct.), "The West and the Emergence of Modern Arabic Fiction."

Tunisian Annals Conference, Univ. of Tunis, 1(25 Nov.). A paper on "Sources for Modern Arabic Criticism of Poetry in the Fifties." 1994.

The Jerash Festival, Seminar on "Foreign Influences in Arabic Poetry." A Paper on "Influence in al-Bayati's Poetry," Jordan, summer, 1993.

The Mu'tah University Seminar on Literature in Jordan (April),"Experimentation in Three Novels," Jordan.

The Jerash Festival Seminar on the Short Story as a Genre (Summer), Jordan.1988.

Institut du Monde Arabe Seminar on Fiction Writing (March). A paper on "Metafiction as a Theoretic Discourse in Contemporary Arabic Writing," Paris1987

Calgary University Conference on the Arts in the Middle East. A paper on    "Arab Intellectuals' Approaches to Orientalism."

The 16th Conference of Arab Writers, Baghdad. A paper on “The Sense of the Novel as a Genre."

The Rutgers University Conference on "Dynamics of Change in the Middle East." A Paper on “Modernism in the Iraqi Short Story in the Fifties." Also published in Gilgamesh 2, 1985.

The Rutgers University Conference, 2nd Stage, "Dynamics of Change in the Middle East." A paper on “Socio?]Political Context of the Iraqi Short Story, 1920-1980."1984.

The 15th Conference of Arab Writers, Algeria. A paper on "Media in the Novel."1984-

*The Mirbad Annual Session on Poetics and Poetry Criticism, Baghdad.Chairman & Organizer, 1982.

The Belgrade Conference on the Novel in the Last Decades of the 20th Century (a paper on Arabic fiction.). 1980.

The Rabat Seminar on Arabic Dailies. A paper on "Stylistics of the

Editorial."1979.

The 14th Conference of Arab Writers,   Damascus. A paper titled "On Characterization in Arabic Fiction."

* There is a separate partial list of articles in Arabic, unmentioned above.


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Home Faculty Programs Courses Languages Events News Faculty Openings Affiliates Admissions		Muhsin Jassim Al-Musawi Professor of Arabic Literature ma2188@columbia.edu 212-854-4732 MEALAC, Kent Hall 605 1140 Amsterdam Av. New York, NY 10027 CV \| Publications \| Reviews \| Lectures \| Selected Articles \| Interviews \| Teaching Lectures The Keynote Address, The American University of Beirut Conference on Khalil Hawi, 6-8 June, 2007. ‘The Islamic Dynamic in Literary Production,” The University of Chicago , October 2006. Lecture: The Postcolonial Arabic Novel, and the Global Challenge, Yale University Seminar, April 28, 2006. Reading Iraq: Culture and Power in Conflict. The University of Wisconsin-Madison, 17 April, 2006 Arab Literary Modernity, Vassar College, Spring , March 6, 2006. Scheherazade’s Nonverbal Narrative, Harvard University seminar on The Thousand and One Nights, 22 April, 2005. “The West’s Others…..” Arizona University, 25 April, 2005. “History and the Novel,” The Supreme Council for Culture Conference in Egypt, Feb. 23/ 2005. As discussant for the Social Sciences Conference, American University of Sharjah, Feb. 6, 2005. MESA Seminars on Iraq, and Arabic Poetry, a paper, and discussions, Nov. 2005, Washington “Modernity and Tradition in Arabic Literature, “Bridgewater College, October 26, 2004. “Iraqi Literature: Allegory of Space,” The Owais Cultural Foundation Lecture, 11 October, 2004, Dubai. The Frankfurt Book Fair lecture on Images of Others in Arabic Literature, October 10, 2004. “The Text in Context: The Reception of Galland’s Thousand Nights,” Institut national des langues et civilizations orientales& Unesco, Colloque, 26 May 2004. “Representations of Women in Arabic Literature,” McNeese University, Lake Charles, L. 16 March, 2004. “Towards Reform in the Arab World,” Alexandria Library Collogue, 12-14 March 2004. “Translation in the formation of the Arab awakening,” Feb. 20, 2004, The Writers’ Union, UAE, Sharjah. “Edward Said and the Unfinished Awakening,” Magrudy Enterprises 14-18 Feb. 2004, Dubai. “Arabic Culture at Crossroads,” The Supreme Council for Culture, Cairo, 26 Feb. 2004. “The Role of Alf Layla in Arabic Popular Culture,”AUS International Conference on Middle East and North African Popular Culture, in collaboration with Oxford University, 25 Jan. 2004. The Workshop on Postcolonial Studies, University of Naples, 6-15 Feb. 2004. “Translation in a Global Age,’’ 19 Dec. 2003, Sharjah World Book Fair, Expo Center. “The Wadie Jwaideh Memorial Lecture in Arabic and Islamic Studies,” Indiana University, Nov. 12, 2003 “Edward said: A Thinker and Critic,” Al-Khaleej Daily and Owais Cultural Foundation 10 Nov. 2003. “Identity and Globalization,” Across-Curriculum Lecture, Zayed University, 10 October 2003. “The Spatial Dimension and the Urban Outlook in Arabic Narrative,” 18-22 October 2003, Supreme Council for Culture. “Modern Arabic Poetry,” Inaugural lecture, Rabat, Ministry of Culture, on the occasion of the Rabat as the Cultural capital, May 28, 2003. “Creativity in a Dissenting Context,” Belgi University in Istanbul, 22-23 May, 2003. “Arabic Cultural rebirth,” UAE Writer’s Union, May 2003. “Whither Classical Prose,” Columbia University Seminar Series, April 28, 2003. “The Narrative effort in context,” The Sharjah Cultural Office Conference, Dec. 2002, the Modern Novel in UAE. “The Qasidah and Postclassical Poetics,” MESA, Nov. 2002 Discussant for the Seminar, “Writers of Conscience,” MESA, Nov. 2002. “The Thousand and One Nights: The State of the Art: Les mille et une nuits, colloque international de literature comparée, 30, 31 October- 2 November, 2002, faculté des letters et des scinces humaines/Rabat- Institiut Fran³ais de Rabat. “The Thousand and One Nights in Arabic Literature,” as above. “Scheherazade’s Non-Verbal Narrative,” in London University /SOAS Workshop Series; Genre Ideologies, 8-10 April, 2002. -“Al-Mutanabbi and al-Ma‘arri Recollected: Engagement with the Classical in Modern Arabic Poetry,” MESA, San Francisco, Nov.2001, to appear in Journal of Arabic Literature , 2002. Narrating Sexuality in the Arabian Nights,” Duke University, Asian and African Languages and Literatures, 29 August, 2001(Invited Lecture). “Classical and Postclassical Prose,” American Research Center in Egypt, 36 May, 2001, Cairo (Invited Lecture). “Postcolonial Poetics: Masks and Identities in Modern Arabic Poetry,” ACLA , Colorado Univ. Conference, April 18-22, 2001 “Chancellery Tarassul,’’ MccGill University Lecture, Islamic Institute, 11 Jan. 2001(Invited Lecture). “ ‘Abd al-Wahhab Al-Bay?t’s Poetics of Exile,”MESA Convention, Orlando. Read in absentia, Florida, 17 -18, Nov.2000 “ Appropriation of the Alien,’’ Zurich University Conference, Oct.2000 The Invited Lectures on Arabic Fiction, Orientalism, and Poetry, Napoli University for Oriental Studies, Italy, 28-30, March 2000. The Bellagio Rockefeller Lecture, “Which Sense of Be-Longing?’’Aug.1999 “Towards a Theory of Exchange in Arabic Literature,” Washington University, Saint Louis, 19 February. 1999. Lecture on “Culture, Containment, and Dissent,” 23 Sept., 1998, Rutgers University, N.J (Invited Lecture). Lecture on “The Challenge of the Modern and After in Arabic Poetry,” 8 Sept., 1998, Indiana University, Bloomington: Colloquium on Texts and Issues in Modern Middle Eastern Poetries (Invited lectures). Poetry Reading, 9 Sept., 1998, Indiana University, Lilly Library. “Dedications: Working with Shadows and Anxieties of Influence,” 10 Sept., 1998 Indiana University. “Re-defining History and Culture in Iraq,” 18 Aug. 1998. Middle East Institute, Washington, D.C (Invited Lecture). The Arabic Novel/ The City Conference, October, 18-22, 2003, Supreme Council for Culture The Mahfuz Seminar in Cairo, Jan.- Feb. 2002, lecturer and chair The Salah Abd al-Sabur Seminar in Cairo, October 2001 Women Literature, Iraqi Women writers, Women Conference, Cairo, November.2000. Tangier, Morocco, Asila Seminar,on the poet Buland al-Haydari, 2001. Tawfiq al-Hakim Seminar Nov.-Dec.1998 (Cairo: Supreme Council for Culture, SCFC) 1998 Seminar on the Novel (Cairo: SCFC) “Inaugural Address: Post?]Modernity and Tradition,” Ministry of Culture, Jordan, (22-23 July1998). “Elite and Dissent: The case of Arabic culture since the Twenties," Cairo, The Supreme Council for Culture (SCFC; 12 May1996). The Cairo Session on Poetry." Intertextualizing Modern Arabic Poetry and Poetics." Panel Organized by SCFC. The Cairo Book Fair Cultural Seminar (Feb.), "Is there a New Cultural Order?"1995. Al-Tawhidi's Conference, Cairo (Oct.), "Al-Tawhidi's Narrative and the Theory of Narrative Writing in Arabic," SCFC. The Cairo Book Fair Cultural Seminar (Jan.), "The Future of Culture in the 21st Century."1994. The ALECSO Seminar in Beirut (Oct.), "The West and the Emergence of Modern Arabic Fiction." Tunisian Annals Conference, Univ. of Tunis, 1(25 Nov.). A paper on "Sources for Modern Arabic Criticism of Poetry in the Fifties." 1994. The Jerash Festival, Seminar on "Foreign Influences in Arabic Poetry." A Paper on "Influence in al-Bayati's Poetry," Jordan, summer, 1993. The Mu'tah University Seminar on Literature in Jordan (April),"Experimentation in Three Novels," Jordan. The Jerash Festival Seminar on the Short Story as a Genre (Summer), Jordan.1988. Institut du Monde Arabe Seminar on Fiction Writing (March). A paper on "Metafiction as a Theoretic Discourse in Contemporary Arabic Writing," Paris1987 Calgary University Conference on the Arts in the Middle East. A paper on "Arab Intellectuals' Approaches to Orientalism." The 16th Conference of Arab Writers, Baghdad. A paper on “The Sense of the Novel as a Genre." The Rutgers University Conference on "Dynamics of Change in the Middle East." A Paper on “Modernism in the Iraqi Short Story in the Fifties." Also published in Gilgamesh 2, 1985. The Rutgers University Conference, 2nd Stage, "Dynamics of Change in the Middle East." A paper on “Socio?]Political Context of the Iraqi Short Story, 1920-1980."1984. The 15th Conference of Arab Writers, Algeria. A paper on "Media in the Novel."1984- The Mirbad Annual Session on Poetics and Poetry Criticism, Baghdad.Chairman & Organizer, 1982. The Belgrade Conference on the Novel in the Last Decades of the 20th Century (a paper on Arabic fiction.). 1980. The Rabat Seminar on Arabic Dailies. A paper on "Stylistics of the Editorial."1979. The 14th Conference of Arab Writers, Damascus. A paper titled "On Characterization in Arabic Fiction." There is a separate partial list of articles in Arabic, unmentioned above.