Courses

This course explores the intersecting political, artistic, and intellectual currents and practices that have shaped contemporary Arab cultures. It is organized as a survey of different cultural phenomena in Arab societies and diasporas including: the Arabic language and its varieties, music, poetry, law, television & cinema, and more.

Reading and analysis of major works of Arabic literature from the 6th to the 17th centuries including classical poetry, the Qur'an, and the Arabian Nights. Prereq: English 1110, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy course.

Reading and analysis of representative works of the 19th and 20th centuries; by contemporary women authors. Prereq: GE foundation writing and info literacy course. Not open to students with credit for 2702H, WGSSt 2702, or WGSSt 2702H. Cross-listed in WGSSt.

This course on modern Arabic literature and culture in translation focuses on questions of belonging, relationship to space, and migration. It examines how Arabic literary narratives, films, documentaries, and other arts have imagined modes of belonging to spaces such as cities and nations, the natural world (and even the universe!) from the early postcolonial period to the present. Prereq: English 1110, or GE foundation writing and info literacy course.