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The Arts in Arab Societies: Culture in a Transnational Era |
Symposium |
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In conjunction with the Middle East Research and Information Project |
Georgetown University |
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Center for Contemporary Arab Studies - CCAS |
April 7th-8th, 1999 |
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This 1999 CCAS Symposium brought together practitioners of the graphic, literary, and musical arts with academics to explore the impact of globalization on the production of culture in the Arab world.
How is cultural production in the Arab world affected by transnational processes, a.k.a. globalization?
Has globalization made irrelevant questions about whether Western influence makes contemporary Arab art inauthentic?
Can we even speak legitimately of an Arab culture(s)? |
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Peripheral Visions: The Ubiquitous Non-presence of India in the Egyptian Cinema |
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Walter Armbrust |
Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology, CCAS, Georgetown University |
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The Novel as an Identity: Self and Others |
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Halim Barakat |
Research Professor of Arab Studies, CCAS, Georgetown University |
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Roman or Reform? Confessional Memoirs and Educating the Populace in 1920s Egypt |
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Marilyn Booth |
Senior Fulbright Fellow, Binational Fulbright Commission, Cairo |
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Approaches to Contemporary Art |
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Wasmaa Chorbachi |
Artist and art historian |
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There is No Arab Culture to Talk About? |
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Mamoun Fandy |
Research Professor of Arab Studies, CCAS, Georgetown University |
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Al-Ahram and Globalization |
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Atef al-Ghamri |
Washington Bureau Chief, Al-Ahram newspaper |
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The Hajj to the West and the Routes Home |
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Mai Ghoussoub |
Publisher, Saqi Books, London |
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Performances of Traditional Music in Baghdad |
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Scheherazad Hassan |
University of Paris |
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Globalization and Freedom of the Press in Egypt |
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Ibraheem Isa |
Editor-in-Chief, banned newspaper Al-Destour, Cairo |
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The Anxiety of Addition - Poetry and the Generational Perspective |
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Oussama Isber |
Poet and Writer, Damascus |
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Culture and Heritage in Arabic Music |
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Abd al-Karim al-Kabli |
Sudanese singer and composer, Khartoum |
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Coffee is Tea, Tea is Coffee: Freedom in a Closed Room |
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Ousama Mohamed |
Filmmaker, Damascus |
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Nubian Culture Through the Song |
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Mohammed Mounir |
Nubian/Egyptian singer and composer, Cairo |
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Home is Where the Heart Is--or Is It? |
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Ahdaf Soueif |
Novelist, England |
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Elie Lima Shabaktani: How 'I' was Converted to Judaism |
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Elia Suleiman |
Filmmaker, Paris |
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Arabs in 'World Music' |
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Ted Swedenburg |
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Arkansas |
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Conceptualizing Culture |
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Lisa Wedeen |
Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago |
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Painting in Nasser's Egypt |
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Caroline Williams |
Lecturer, Art History, College of William and Mary |
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