Programme
Day Two, Saturday July 17th
Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, SOAS
Session One: 10-11.30
Donna Landry (University of Kent) and Gerald Maclean (University of Exeter), ‘Writing Beirut c.1982: James Buchan, Robert Fisk and Charles Glass’
Rita Sakr (Sherbrooke University), ‘“War is surrealism without art”: Representing the Unrepresentable in Rawi Hage’s De Niro’s Game and Robert Fisk’s Pity the Nation’
Dalia Mostafa (Manchester University), ‘Journeying Through a Discourse of Violence: Elias Khoury’s Yalo and Rawi Hage’s De Niro’s Game’
Tea and coffee: 11.30-11.45
Session Two: 11.45-1.30
Reporting Beirut: Patrick Cockburn, Tim Lewellyn and Katia Srour
Lunch break: 1.30-2.30
Session Three: 2.30-4.00
Nabil Matar, (University of Minnesota) “Siege 1982: ‘We die alive’”
Nazneen Ahmed, (University of Kent) ‘“Confidence and Bad Arabic“: The Siege and Lebanese Long-Distance Nationalism’
Ghada Karmi, (University of Exeter)‘Recording Memory: The Palestinian Experience’
Tea and coffee: 4.00-4.30
Readings: 5.00-7.00
Elias Khoury Bahaa Taher Jean Said Makdisi
7.00 Wine Reception
