SGMOIK SSMOCI
Schweizerische Gesellschaft Mittlerer Osten und Islamische KulturenSociété Suisse Moyen Orient et Civilisation Islamique
Società Svizzera Medio Oriente e Civiltà Islamica
الجمعية األوربيةالجمعية األوربية لدراسة األدب العربي الحديثلدراسة األدب العربي الحديث
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EurASMAL
Institute for Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
Denkplatz Diaspora/Exil Kreative/Innovative Impulse von AutorInnen aus dem Nahen/Mittleren Osten
The Creativity of Diaspora/Exile Middle Eastern writers re-thinking literature, society, politics, ...
International Symposium organized by
European Association for the Study of Modern Arabic Literature (EurASMAL)
Association Suisse Moyen Orient et Civilisation Islamique (SGMOIK/SSMOCI)
Institute for Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Berne (IIMES)
Date March 16-19, 2005
Places University of Berne, “Unitobler” buildings Lerchenweg 36, 3012 Bern, room F-121 Schlachthaus Theatre Berne Rathausgasse 20/22, 3011 Bern Gurten Kulm (near Bern) 3084 Wabern, Conference room “Falco”
For more detailed map see last page
PPRROOGGRRAAMM
Tuesday, March 15 14:00-18:00 Registration
Institute for Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Falkenplatz 11, 3rd floor (IIMES)
[ Map: “A”]
16:00-18:00 Guided tour (historic city)
18:30 Departure (for place of dinner) from IIMES [ Map: “A”]
19:00 Welcome Dinner at Villa Stucki, Seftigenstrasse 11 [ Map: “B”]
A IIMES Institute for
Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies Falkenplatz 11
C "Unitobler" Conference site Lerchenweg 36
Room F-121
F "Arabelle" Hotel
Mittelstrasse
B "Villa Stucki" (Welcome Dinner)
Seftigenstrasse 11
D "Schlachthaus" Theatre / Conference Site
Rathausgasse
D "Gurten Kulm" Conf. Site (March 19)
near Wabern
"Kreuz" Hotel
Zeughausgasse
"Isola" Hotel
Niesenweg
SBB / CFS Railway Station
Wednesday, March 16 Registration (cont.) at conference site during coffee and lunch breaks
Place: University of Berne, “Unitobler”, Lerchenweg 36, room F-121 [ Map: “C”]
Introduction [Chair: Stephan Guth, Berne/CH]
09:00-09:35 AS‘AD KHAIRALLAH (Beirut/LB): “The Second Emigration: Arab Poets in a Global
Diaspora”
09:35-10:10 BOUTROS HALLAQ (Paris/F): “L’exile, lieu de naissance de la littérature arabe
moderne?”
Exile and Writing 'at home' [Chair: Stephan Guth, Berne/CH]
10:10-10:45 ÝABDUH ÝABBØD (Damascus/SYR): حول دور االغتراب يف األدب السوري املعاصر
(On the effect of exile on contemporary Syrian literature)
Coffee / Tea
Literary life in Diaspora/Exile [Chair: Ferial Ghazoul, Cairo/EG]
11:15-11:50 OLEG REDKIN (St. Petersburg/RU): “Abu Shaar Ayman, Nazim ad-Darawi and Omar
Mohamid – The new generation of Arab authors in Russia in 1980-2000”
11:50-12:30 PAOLA VIVIANI (I): “Looking at Egypt from afar: BahÁÞ ÓÁhir’s Dhahabtu ilÁ shallÁl ”
Lunch at Caféteria Unitobler (conference site)
Language and Identity [Chair: Barbara Michalak-Pikulska, Kraków/PL]
14:15-14:50 ANDREAS PFLITSCH (Berlin/DE): “To fit or not to fit. Rabih Alameddine’s novels
Koolaids and I, the Divine as examples of a literature without a fixed abode”
Changes, Transitions [Chair: Barbara Michalak-Pikulska, cont.]
14:50-15:30 FRANCESCA CORRAO (I): “Changements in Adonis’ poetics during his stay in
Europe”
Coffee / Tea
Changes, Transitions (cont.) [Chair: Robin Ostle, Oxford/UK]
16:00-16:35 BAIAN RAYHANOVA (Sofia/BG): “AÎmad SulaymÁn al-AÎmad. The vicissitudes of
life, or metamorphoses of creativity”
16:35-17:10 MONICA RUOCCO (Lecce/I): “L’écriture comme déplacement dans l’œuvre de MurÐd
al-BarghÙthД
Evening: no program
Thursday, March 17 Registration (cont.) a.m.: At conference site during coffee and lunch breaks
15-18 Institute for Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies,
Falkenplatz 11, 3rd floor (IIMES) [ Map: “A”]
Conf. site: University of Berne, “Unitobler”, Lerchenweg 36, room F-121 [ Map: “C”]
Changes, Transitions: ÍanÁn al-Shaykh and others [Chair: Boutros Hallaq]
09:00-09:35 SOBHI BOUSTANI (F): “Terre d’exil, espace d’une identité en crise: essai sur le roman
InnahÁ London yÁ ÝazÐzÐ de ÍanÁn al-Shaykh”
09:35-10:10 RASHEED EL-ENANY (Exeter/UK): (on the effect of diaspora on the writings of some
Arab women writers, notably ÍanÁn al-Shaykh, GhÁda al-SammÁn, and
Ahdaf Soueif)
10:10-10:45 SABAH GHANDOUR (Balamand/Lebanon): “Mother and Home in Al-Shaykh’s ÍikÁyatÐ
sharÎun yaÔÙl”
Coffee / Tea
[Chair: As‘ad Khairallah]
11:15-11:50 ULRIKE STEHLI-WERBECK (Münster/D): “How Diaspora maps imagination and
language: InnahÁ London yÁ ÝazÐzÐ and ImraÞatÁn ÝalÁ shÁÔiÞ al-baÎr by
ÍanÁn al-Shaykh”
Creating Identities in the Ghurba
11:50-12:30 BARBARA MICHALAK-PIKULSKA (Kraków/PL): “Experience of love and nostalgia in
lyrics of Omani diaspora poet ÚÁhir al-GhÁfirД
Eat at place of your choice
15:00- ?? EurASMAL / EMTAR General Meeting
ca. 18:00 Íusayn’s Buffet, at IIMES [ Map: “A”]
Soirée
20:30-22:00 ÍANÀN AL-SHAYKH (Arabic/English, with CHRISTIANE SCHLOTE)
at Schlachthaus Theatre Berne, Rathausgasse 20/22 [ Map: “D”]
Friday, March 18 (“Mixed Day”) 8:30 (optional) Meet at Hotel “Arabelle” [Map: “F”] for departure for conference site
Conf. site: Schlachthaus Theatre Berne, Rathausgasse 20/22 [ Map: “D”]
09:30 Welcoming address
09:45-11:00 The Setting [Chair: Wen-chin Ouyang, London/UK]
• ROBIN OSTLE (Oxford/UK): “Modern Arabic Literature in the Diaspora: Past and
Present”
• ALI AL-SHALAH (Zurich/ZH): “Arab(ic) Literature in Switzerland”
Coffee / Tea
11:15-12:30 Choosing an identity [Chair: Doris Ruhe, Greifswald/DE] • ÖZKAN EZL£ (Freiburg/DE): “Individuality or exile – The way towards a minor
literature”
• CHRISTIANE SCHLOTE (Berlin/DE): “Feasting and Fasting: Culinary Havens in Arab
Diaspora Literatures”
Lunch
14:15-15:30 Diaspora and History [Chair: Ulrike Stehli-Werbeck, Münster/DE]
• MARYAM MAMEGHANIAN-PRENZLOW (Berlin/DE): “On Kader Abdolah’s novel
Spijkerschrift (Cuneiform)”
• NIMA MINA (London/UK): “Mahshid Amirshahy’s novel Dar hazar (‘At Home’): A
different account of the Iranian revolution”
Coffee / Tea
15:45-16:20 Diaspora Writers as Agents of Mediation [Chair: Rasheed El-Enany]
• FERIAL GHAZOUL (Cairo/EG): “Humanizing Islam in Diasporic Literature: The
Translator by Leila Aboulela and Loin de Médine by Assia Djebar”
Short Break
16:30-18:00 Authors’ Panel: Diaspora and Humour [Chair: Madeleine Voegeli, Basel/CH]
• MAHSHID AMIRSHAHY (Paris/F): “In Front of a Concave Mirror” or “Under a
Magnifying Glass”
• YUSUF YE¡£LÖZ (Winterthur/CH)
Hosting the discussion: MADELEINE VOEGELI
Eat at place of your choice
20:30-22:00 Soirée
FER£DUN ZA£MO¹LU (in German)
at Schlachthaus Theatre Berne, Rathausgasse 20/22 [ Map: “D”]
Saturday, March 19 Conf. site: Gurten Kulm (near Bern), 3084 Wabern, Conference room “Falco” [ Map: “E”]
08:30 Meet at Hotel “Arabelle” [ Map: “F”] for departure to railway station
09:02 Dept. train (S3) to Wabern (from Bern main railway station)
09:30 Dept. train to Gurten Kulm (from Wabern “Gurtenbähnli”)
[Chair: ÝAbduh ÝAbbÙd, Damascus/SYR]
10:00-10:30 PAUL STARKEY (Durham/UK): “Linguistic exile? AnÔÙn ShammÁs and the Hebrew-
Arab novel”
Irakis in Exile
10:30-11:00 ANDREA HAIST (Bonn/DE): “Amal al-JubÙrÐ and the dÐwÁn project”
11:00-11:30 WIEBKE WALTHER (Tübingen/DE): “An Iraqi leftist exile in a communist country:
GhÁÞib ÓuÝma FarmÁn”
Coffee / Tea
In Memoriam Ed de Moor
11:45-12:00 CHRISTA H. VOGEL (Nijmegen/NL): “Considering ghurba. Words in remembrance of
Ed de Moor”
12:00-12:45 EDWARD AL-KHARRÀÓ (Cairo/EG): Ed de Moor Memorial Lecture
Farewell Lunch (at conference site)
The organizers wish to express their gratitude to the following institutions for their generous support:
FONDS NATIONAL SUISSE SCHWEIZERISCHER NATIONALFONDS FONDO NAZIONALE SVIZZERO SWISS NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
FFoonnddaattiioonn MMaaxx vvaann BBeerrcchheemm
Erziehungsdirektion des Kantons Bern Direction de l’instruction publique du canton de Berne
Hochschulstiftung der Burgergemeinde Bern
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Mittelbauvereinigung der Universität Bern (MVUB)
Institut für Islamwissenschaft & Neuere Oriental. Philologie (IINOPh) Institute for Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
SGMOIK SSMOCI
Schweizerische Gesellschaft Mittlerer Osten und Islamische KulturenSociété Suisse Moyen Orient et Civilisation Islamique
Società Svizzera Medio Oriente e Civiltà Islamica
Stadt Bern Abt. Kulturelles
الجمعية األوربيةالجمعية األوربية لدراسة األدب العربي الحديثلدراسة األدب العربي الحديث
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EurASMAL
Responsible for the organization: Stephan Guth
Organizing team: Inge Ammering Silvia Hugi Michael Widmer Petra Bleisch