Day One
DAY ONE: 12th April
10.30 Registration and coffee
11.15 Welcome: Nadia El Kholy (Cairo) and Caroline Rooney (Kent)
11.30-1.00 Panel: Social and Cultural Contexts
Faisal Younis (Cairo), ‘The Intercultural Experience and Creativity’
Hanaa al Gohary (Cairo), ‘Social Problems of Marginalised Groups in Egypt’
1.00-2.00 Lunch break
2.00-3.30 Panel: Literature, Religion, Psychoanalysis
Chair: Hoda Gindi
Ayman El Desouky, (SOAS, London), ‘Heterologies of Literary Modernity: On Historical Consciousness and the Sacred in Awlad Haratina and ‘Azazil’
Ziad Elmarsarfy, (York) ‘Sufism and the Contemporary Arabic novel’
Julia Borossa (Middlesex), ‘Psychoanalyis and Contemporary Egyptian Fiction’
3.30-4 Coffee
4-5 Ahdaf Soueif in conversation with Caroline Rooney
5- Walid El Hamamsy (Cairo) with Laila Doss, ‘It is Not a Portrait of a Lady’
