Professor Al-Samman coordinated the articles comprising the Middle East entries. View the encyclopedia here.
Below is a Q&A with her about the endeavor. The encyclopedia is available in online as well as hard copy editions, geared primarily towards purchase by universities, schools, and libraries.
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The MESALC Interdisciplinary UVA Forum is a new scholarly venue that invites UVA junior scholars and doctoral students to present their interdisciplinary research in the Literatures and Cultures of the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia.
SEMINAR I: “Of fals ymaginacioun: Poetics of Hypocrisy in Medieval Anglo-Arabic Texts”
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LECTURE I: “Orientalism, Arabic, and the Threshold of World Literature”
Professor Farzaneh Milani recently visited Wesleyan College in West Virginia, and learned an important lesson about stereotypes. Read the full Daily Progress opinion/commentary piece here.
