Joseph Massad Wins Lionel Trilling Award

MEALAC Professor Joseph Massad received the Lionel Trilling Award on April 28, 2008.

The Trilling Award honors a book from the past year by a Columbia author that best exhibits the standards of intellect and scholarship found in the work of Lionel Trilling, CC ’27.

Prof. Massad, Associate Professor of Arab politics received the award in recognition of his book Desiring Arabs, published in June 2007. The book, according to the press release, “offers a probing study of representations of Arab sexuality” and is “an important and eloquent work of scholarship that the committee feels will have a lasting impact on the field.”

New Fall 2008 Courses

CHECK OUT THESE EXCITING NEW COURSES BEING OFFERED THIS FALL 2008:

Introduction to Modern African History
MDES 3942, Professor Mamadou Diouf
The seminar is an interdisciplinary exploration of the history of the African continent, examining very closely the colonial and postcolonial periods. Its focus is the intersection of politics, economics, culture and society. Using colonialism, empire, and globalization as key analytical frames, it pays special attention to social, political and cultural changes that shaped the various African individual and collective experiences.

Fourth Year Arabic I - Readings in Modern Arabic Prose
MDES W4212, Professor Taoufik Ben-Amor

Hebrew Love
MDES G4524, Professor Uri Cohen
Hebrew Love will examine the Hebrew literary and visual canon in search of its discourse of love and the larger implications of such a discourse. Notoriously love is impossible to define and very difficult to engage as a critical category, and yet it forms the core of national revival and is the main vehicle of linkage between the work and the individual. Moving from the biblical foundation across time, works written in and out of the land of Israel and later in the state, will be read as formations of a Hebrew heart but also of gender, the nation and the polity. These contexts and intertexts will be examined together as the poetics of emotional experience and another effort to understand what we talk about when we talk about love.

Constitutionalism, Ataturk, and Reza Shah
HSME G4941, Professor Nader Sohrabi

The Modern Jewish Literary Complex: Its Fragmentary Nature
MDES 6522, Professor Dan Miron
Introduction to the problematics of the modern Jewish literary complex; the history and the nature of Jewish multilingualism and multi-culturalism; differential and integral bilingualisms; the modalities of literary contiguity. Reading material: Achad ha'am (The Renaissance of the Spirit); Berdizcewski (Jewish bilingualism and bi-culturalism); Sadan (Masat mavo); Niger (Di tveyshprakhkeyt).


Home Faculty Programs Courses Languages Events News Affiliates Admissions		Joseph Massad Wins Lionel Trilling Award MEALAC Professor Joseph Massad received the Lionel Trilling Award on April 28, 2008. The Trilling Award honors a book from the past year by a Columbia author that best exhibits the standards of intellect and scholarship found in the work of Lionel Trilling, CC ’27. Prof. Massad, Associate Professor of Arab politics received the award in recognition of his book Desiring Arabs, published in June 2007. The book, according to the press release, “offers a probing study of representations of Arab sexuality” and is “an important and eloquent work of scholarship that the committee feels will have a lasting impact on the field.” New Fall 2008 Courses CHECK OUT THESE EXCITING NEW COURSES BEING OFFERED THIS FALL 2008: Introduction to Modern African History MDES 3942, Professor Mamadou Diouf The seminar is an interdisciplinary exploration of the history of the African continent, examining very closely the colonial and postcolonial periods. Its focus is the intersection of politics, economics, culture and society. Using colonialism, empire, and globalization as key analytical frames, it pays special attention to social, political and cultural changes that shaped the various African individual and collective experiences. Fourth Year Arabic I - Readings in Modern Arabic Prose MDES W4212, Professor Taoufik Ben-Amor Hebrew Love MDES G4524, Professor Uri Cohen Hebrew Love will examine the Hebrew literary and visual canon in search of its discourse of love and the larger implications of such a discourse. Notoriously love is impossible to define and very difficult to engage as a critical category, and yet it forms the core of national revival and is the main vehicle of linkage between the work and the individual. Moving from the biblical foundation across time, works written in and out of the land of Israel and later in the state, will be read as formations of a Hebrew heart but also of gender, the nation and the polity. These contexts and intertexts will be examined together as the poetics of emotional experience and another effort to understand what we talk about when we talk about love. Constitutionalism, Ataturk, and Reza Shah HSME G4941, Professor Nader Sohrabi The Modern Jewish Literary Complex: Its Fragmentary Nature MDES 6522, Professor Dan Miron Introduction to the problematics of the modern Jewish literary complex; the history and the nature of Jewish multilingualism and multi-culturalism; differential and integral bilingualisms; the modalities of literary contiguity. Reading material: Achad ha'am (The Renaissance of the Spirit); Berdizcewski (Jewish bilingualism and bi-culturalism); Sadan (Masat mavo); Niger (Di tveyshprakhkeyt).