Mon, 10/12 –Writing workshop: Paper #1
Hwk: Leila Abouzeid, Year of the Elephant (intro – p. 70); Written homework #5
Wed, 10/14 – Year of the Elephant: National and individual sovereignty
Reading the Year of the Elephant
Hwk: Paper #1 due Monday 10/19; Halim Barakat, “Arabic Novels and Social Transformation” (pp. 126-139) from Studies in Modern Arabic Literature (ed. Ostle)