Middle Eastern Literatures

A forum for the academic study of all Middle Eastern Literatures (broadly conceived) from Late Antiquity until the present. Critical work welcome!

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Please note that @MELiteratures will now be posting content via BlueSky. Please come find us there to see what brilliant new work has just landed from volume 26.3 https://t.co/nBccpfSOAp

[Prof Daniela La Penna @DanielaLaPenna1]

🎺deadline approaching (15 September)🎺: submit abstracts for special issue on Translating and Publishing Turkish Literature in the Anglosphere @MELiteratures

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Hannah Scott Deuchar reviews Rana Issa's _The modern arabic bible_ from @EdinburghUP and finds its "extensive work in Christian missionary archives [offers] enjoyable and often highly original readings" of key Arabic literary figures https://t.co/HJJQ49QGtc

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We are pleased to present issue 26.2, our first regular issue since the start of what we now call the Gaza Genocide began. The issue is dedicated to all of the authors, the university teachers and researchers, and journalists we have lost since 7 Oct 2023. https://t.co/PTJRb1GvPO

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@profghen reviews Yasmine Khayyat's _War remains: ruination and resistance in Lebanon_ from @SUPress and its decentring of Beirut and look at ruination in Southern Lebanon https://t.co/btY33TJdLO

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MEL is pleased to announce a new CFP on “Translating and Publishing of Turkish Literature in the Anglosphere” with special Eds Özlem Albachten and
Daniela La Penna

https://t.co/t2pwwWNhbX

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In her concluding remarks, Prof Wen-chin Ouyang writes on the "Arabic posthuman: bee, beehive and beekeeper in a reconceptualizing of the human" https://t.co/5uq19qOjsb

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Pleased to 📣 MEL 26.1, on the Middle East's _Fragile Ecologies_ edited by #CharisOlszok Articles explore texts that "have long haunted the
tales of energy-driven progress...as stark
reminders that the burden of responsibility for anthropogenic climate change is uneven" 🧵

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Kylie Walters reviews "_Iridescent Kuwait: Petro-modernity and urban visual culture in the mid-twentieth century_ by Laura Hindelang" https://t.co/3JHMZuUYnY

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Samuel Martin offers a translation of #EliasKhoury's article on climate and COVID in “Literature in a time of contagion” https://t.co/YFAMQsg6XE

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In "Climate change & the future of the city: Arabic science fiction as climate fiction in Egypt and Iraq" Teresa Pepe reads the "representation of the climate crisis in post-2011 Arabic SF, [as an intersection] with 🌍 climate fiction" https://t.co/Rt4BpwNHMq

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In her "Once upon a time in the anthropocene: myths, legends, and futurity in Turkish climate fiction" @MerveTabur7 reads how myth and legend "overlap in Turkish climate fiction to address the multiscalar complexities of climate change" https://t.co/gqxZdu8nt0

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@MayaAghasi #YasmineKhayyat traces "Counter creaturely communities in Emily Nasrallah’s Yawmīyyāt Hirr and Hoda Barakat’s Barīd al-Layl" https://t.co/n8GXQJGAUM

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In "Garbage, corruption, and political protest in Lebanese literature and film"@MayaAghasi explores texts that show "Rather than war, conflict, or sectarian belonging, the texts assert that it is ecological degradation that is a threat to Lebanon" https://t.co/IWQWJ3B7FM