Mon, 11/30 – The Tent: the Rural imaginary in contemporary Arabic fiction
Hwk: Miral al-Tahawy [Mahgoub], The Tent (Ch. 8-12); Maggie Ann Bowers, “Delimiting the terms” in Magic(al) Realism
Wed, 12/2 – The Tent: Magical realism and the Arabic novel
Hwk: Sinan Antoon, The Corpse Washer (all); Written homework #11
Thursday, 12/3 – Guest lecture: Miral Mahgoub (4:30, Robert A. Jones House conference room) – mandatory attendance