East West West East: The Literary Lives of an Egyptian Novelist

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Channel: The University of Chicago · 2013 · Education

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A lecture by Gamal al Ghitany, a renowned Egyptian author, whose short stories and novels have helped shape currents in Arabic fiction over the past four decades.
Translation by Mohamed Wajdi Ben Hammed, PhD student of Literature at the University of Notre Dame. An event of the Mellon Islamic Studies Inititiave. The Mellon Islamic Studies Initiative is a three-year project, designed to support the expansion and enhancement of the study of Islam at the University of Chicago. Administered by the Divinity School, the initiative is a cross-divisional collaboration, intended to create a sustained campus conversation about the future of Islamic studies.
Funded by a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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