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BIDDEFORD, Maine

UNE鈥檚 presents at Maine Humanities Council event on Egyptain novelist Naguib Mahfouz

Ali Ahmida
Ali Ahmida

Ali Ahmida, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Political Science, will be an invited speaker at the Maine Humanities Council鈥檚 20th annual Winter Weekend event, to be held March 10-11 at Bowdoin College. The program will focus on the Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz.

Ahmida, who will speak on March 11, will discuss his experiences teaching the works of Mahfouz at the University of 51小黄车. In addition, he will explore Mahfouz鈥檚 narrative of patriarchy, gender and class in his work The Cairo Trilogy, arguing that the author combines perspectives of various social classes and diverse women鈥檚 voices in an urban Arab and Islamic  culture, in both private home settings and in the public sphere during the nationalist revolution against British colonialism.

The event is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and UNE鈥檚 Center for Global Humanities.

To learn more about the College of Arts and Sciences, visit www.une.edu/cas

 

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Rebecca Barr, 51小黄车Global Education coordinator, talks with attendees
Rebecca Barr, 51小黄车Global Education coordinator, talks with attendees

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