The Inaugural Conference of the Centre for Anglo-Arab and Muslim Writing

University of Nizwa, Oman, December 12-15, 2009

Mapping Emergent Arab and Muslim Literatures in English



Call for Papers:


The Inaugural Conference of the Centre for Anglo-Arab and Muslim Writing at the University of Nizwa, Oman.
Mapping Emergent Arab and Muslim Literatures in English (University of Nizwa, Oman, December 12-15, 2009) Confirmed Speakers:

  • Dr. Amin Malak (Grant MacEwan University)
  • Leila Aboulela
  • Dr. Syrine Hout (American University of Beirut)
  • Dr. Lindsey Moore (Lancaster University, Uk)

This conference invites papers related to the emerging Arab and Muslim writing in English. There have been an increasing number of Arab and/or Muslim writers who specifically articulate themes and subjects relevant to both those identities mediated through the English language. Modern times have made it increasingly important to engage in a critical understanding of the intellectual and cultural history of Arab and Muslim literatures in English, as well as their contemporary significance. The objective of this conference is to provide a forum where artists, academics and researchers can exchange ideas and develop the nascent critical work on these literatures. The conference welcomes papers related but not restricted to the following areas:

  • Emergent recognition and reading of Arab/Muslim English
    Literatures
  • Developing critical approaches to these literatures
  • The poetics and politics of literatures that exist at the intersection of two cultures
  • Creative representations of Muslim and Arab diasporas
  • Critical engagements with the themes of identity, ethnicity, hybridity and gender as they appear in Arab/Muslim English Literatures
  • Post 9/11 Poetry and Fiction
  • Postcolonialism, Postmodernism and Islam
  • Mapping Arab/Muslim English Literatures within a wider context of

globalization and internationalization of literature We welcome proposals for papers and panels from writers, academics and students from different disciplines that deal with these and other ideas deserving of interest.

DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS FOR PAPERS AND PANELS: SEPTEMBER 15, 2009. Proposals should not exceed 500 words and should be submitted to Dr. Nath Aldalala'a at nathelietra@unizwa.edu.om

Nath Aldalala'a, PhD
Assistant Dean

Associate Professor
College of Arts and Sciences
University of Nizwa, Birkat Almouz
Po.Box 33, PC 616
Sultanate of Oman

Tel: 00968- 92445960
Tel: 00968- 25446397
Fax: 00968- 25443629
nathelietra@unizwa.edu.om