Presentation Date:
This session, focusing on Autumn Quail, was hosted in January 2014 by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Note that this session was offered twice; the recording listed here was the first of two sessions. It featured CMES Arabic Preceptor and scholar Sami Alkyam.
View a recording of the session here: http://cmes.adobeconnect.com/p9qmadl1o92/
About the book:
Legendary Egyptian writer and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, Naguib Mahfouz writes about shifting experiences of authority and identity following the Egyptian revolution of 1952. Part of a three-part novella cycle exploring the historic military coup that resulted in the overthrow of Egypt's constitutional monarchy, this short work of fiction offers a rich historical lens through which to explore political transitions in contemporary Egypt.
Accompanying non-fiction texts
Shokr, Ahmad. “Reflections on Two Revolutions.” Middle East Report and Information Project. Number 265 (Winter 2012): 2-12.
Brown, Nathan and Elmad El-Din Shahin. “Egypt.” Politics and Society in the Contemporary Middle East. Ed. Michele Penner Angrist. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers., 2010. 203-28.