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SUMMARY:The Lesbian Subjectivity in Contemporary Arabic Literature: Between Discipline and Punishment
DESCRIPTION:Mellon Minorities in the Middle East & North Africa Series\nA lecture by Dr. Iman Al-Ghafari\, moderated by Robert J. Farley (UCLA)\nFriday\, April 16\, 2021\n11:00 AM (Pacific Time)\n  \nClick Here to RSVP\n  \nLesbian subjectivities have persistently been neglected\, suppressed\, misrepresented\, or portrayed through the lenses of the inherited and recycled moral views in the mainstream Arab\, Islamic and Middle Eastern cultures. In such oppressive socio-political contexts\, the independent lesbian subjectivity remains engulfed within the heterosexual morality of the ‘closet’ that advocates invisibility. Deprived of the means and tools of self-representation\, how can the lesbian subjectivity become a speaking subject? And to what extent it is possible for daily discursive practices in Contemporary Arabic cultures or to the formal disciplinary narratives of Arabic literature to give a self-assertive voice to the autonomous lesbian subjectivity. \nDr. Iman Al-Ghafari is a doctor of literature\, a researcher\, a lesbian poet\, a writer\, an illustrator\, and a literary translator. She received her Ph.D. with first class honors on “The Quest for Identity in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath: A Feminist Approach.” From 2012-2014\, She was hosted as a post-doctoral researcher in Amsterdam research Centre for Gender and Sexuality. She has lectured widely on lesbian poetry. She has many publications about lesbian issues in Contemporary Middle Eastern cultures and literature. Her works include poetry\, essays\, short stories\, academic articles and literary translations. She has received several grants and fellowships for her writings. In 2017\, she won Natur and Kultur prize in Sweden. \nRobert J. Farley is a Ph.D. Candidate in Comparative Literature at UCLA\, writing a dissertation on digital magazines\, archives\, and the contemporary emergence of kwīr in Arabic. He works as an Arabic scholar\, translator\, and consultant in instructional technology and design\, digital research in the humanities\, and cultural representation. \n  \n  \nSponsor(s): Center for Near Eastern Studies\, Comparative Literature\, LGBTQ Studies
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SUMMARY:Wrestling with Redemption: A. B. Yehoshua's Retrospective Imagination
DESCRIPTION:Wrestling with Redemption: A. B. Yehoshua’s Retrospective Imagination\nThursday\, April 22\n12:00 PM – 1:15 PM Pacific Time\nRSVP Here\n\nYael Halevi-Wise will talk about her recent book\, The Retrospective Imagination of A.B. Yehoshua(2020)\, which examines the work and ethos of one of Israel’s foremost contemporary authors. An internationally-recognized novelist\, the New York Times has called Yehoshua the “Israeli Faulkner.”\nCo-sponsored by the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies and the UCLA Department of Comparative Literature. \nAbout the Program \nExploring the work of celebrated Israeli author A.B. Yehoshua\, the program brings together McGill University Associate Professor of Literature and Chair of Jewish Studies Yael Halevi-Wise\, author of The Retrospective Imagination of A.B. Yehoshua and discussant and scholar\, Rabbi Dr. William Cutter\, Emeritus Professor of Human Relations at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. \nHalevi-Wise’s talk will examine how Yehoshua’s speeches\, interviews and op-eds have turned him into a prominent public intellectual in the eye of the Zionist storm; but Yehoshua’s fame – the fact that anyone is even interested in hearing his opinions about Jewish identity – rests on his impressive and considerable literary abilities. Without reducing Yehoshua’s art to a vehicle for conveying ideological positions\, she will showcase how he mounts a multilayered engagement with the here and now – in light of the past and future – to elicit a deeper conversation about core aspects of Jewish history and thought.\n\n\n\nAbout the Book \nYael Halevi-Wise’s new book\, The Retrospective Imagination of A.B. Yehoshua (Penn State University Press\, 2020) explores the work of the internationally-recognized novelist whom the New York Times has called the “Israeli Faulkner.” Instead of an exhaustive chronological-biographical account of Yehoshua’s artistic growth\, Halevi-Wise’s book calls for a systematic appreciation of the author’s major themes and compositional patterns. Specifically\, she argues for reading Yehoshua’s novels as reflections on the “condition of Israel\,” constructed multifocally to engage four intersecting levels of signification: psychological\, sociological\, historical\, and historiosophic. \n  \nAbout the Speaker \nDr. Yael Halevi-Wise is Associate Professor of Literature and Chair of Jewish Studies at McGill University in Montreal\, Canada. Her areas of interest include the theory of the novel\, contemporary Israeli literature\, 19th century English literature and 20th century Latin American literature. Before coming to Montreal\, she taught at Brandeis\, Cornell and Princeton universities. Dr. Halevi-Wise is the author of many journal articles and several books\, including most recently The Retrospective Imagination of A.B. Yehoshua (Penn State University Press\, 2020). Her other books are Sephardism: Spanish/Jewish History and the Modern Literary Imagination (Stanford University Press\, 2012) and Interactive Fictions: Scenes of Storytelling in the Novel (Praeger/Greenwood Press\, 2003). She received her Ph.D. from Princeton University. \nDISCLAIMER: The views or opinions of our guest speakers and the content of their presentations do not necessarily reflect the views of the UCLA Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies. Hosting speakers does not constitute an endorsement of the speaker’s views or opinions.  \nSponsor(s): Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies\, Comparative Literature\, UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies.
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SUMMARY:The Art of Leaving: A Conversation with Ayelet Tsabari
DESCRIPTION:Acclaimed Israeli author Ayelet Tsabari will discuss her memoir\, “The Art of Leaving” and its themes of longing and belonging\, growing up Mizrahi in Israel\, and reclaiming her Yemeni identity. She will be joined by discussant Rabbi Miriyam Glazer\, Emerita Professor of Literature at American Jewish University.\n  \nRSVP HERE\n  \nPresented by the Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies in collaboration with the American Jewish University and the Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies at UC Berkeley. Co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of Comparative Literature. \nAbout the Talk \nAcclaimed Israeli author Ayelet Tsabari knows first-hand the challenges faced by immigrants\, as the child of a Yemenite family in Israel and as an author writing about her homeland in English\, her second language. Join her and Prof. Miriyam Glazer\, as they discuss growing up Mizrahi in Israel\, and re-finding and reclaiming that identity through writing and extensive research into Yemeni culture and traditions. In the discussion\, they will also explore how a writer’s cultural background\, mother tongue\, and origins influence and inform her writing\, in terms of both content and style. \nAbout the Speakers \nAyelet Tsabari was born in Israel to a large family of Yemeni descent. She is the author of The Art of Leaving (Random House\, 2019)\, winner of the Canadian Jewish Literary Award for memoir\, finalist for the Writer’s Trust Hilary Weston Prize\, and an Apple Books and Kirkus Review Best Book of 2019. Her first book\, The Best Place on Earth\, won the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature\, was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and has been published internationally. Her translations appeared in the New Quarterly\, Berlin Quarterly\, Paper Brigade\, and Mantis. She teaches creative writing at the University of King’s College (Canada) MFA program\, the University of Guelph Writing MFA program\, and at Tel Aviv University. \nRabbi Miriyam Glazer (Discussant) is Emerita Professor of Literature at American Jewish University\, where she created and chaired the Literature\, Communication & Media Department for over 25 years. Prior to that she was chair of the Foreign Literatures Department at Ben-Gurion University. She has published many essays and book chapters on Jewish literature\, as well as on nature\, gender\, and spirituality in Judaism and Jewish culture. Her books include Dreaming the Actual: Contemporary Fiction and Poetry by Israeli Women Writers (State University of New York Press\, 2000) and Psalms of the Jewish Liturgy: A Guide to their Beauty\, Power\, and Meaning (Aviv Press\, 2009). \n  \nDISCLAIMER: The views or opinions of our guest speakers and the content of their presentations do not necessarily reflect the views of the UCLA Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies. Hosting speakers does not constitute an endorsement of the speaker’s views or opinions. \nSponsor(s): Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies\, Comparative Literature\, American Jewish University\, UC Berkeley’s Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies
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