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272 READING MODERN ARABIC LITERATURE

Reading Modern Arabic Literature (21:350:272:H5:04343)
Class Dates: 7/8 - 8/14
Class Times: MTWTh, 10:00am - 11:55am
Instructor: Moosavi
Location: Canvas
Format: Online
Credits: 3
COURSE DESCRIPTION:

This course introduces students to the diversity of Arabic literature in English translation. Depending on the semester, the course may have a modern or premodern focus and/or an emphasis on poetry, fiction, memoir or theatre. The course highlights formal aspects of Arabic literature while showcasing how writers and poets from the area defined as the Arab world, the Arab diaspora or who otherwise identify as Arab have represented major contemporary historical and political issues in literary texts.

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