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

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EurASMAL

Responsible for the organization: Stephan Guth

Organizing team: Inge Ammering Silvia Hugi Michael Widmer Petra Bleisch

A IIMES, Falkenplatz 11, 3rd floor D Schlachthaus Theatre, Rathausgasse 20/22

B Villa Stucki, Seftigenstrasse 11 E Gurten Kulm (near Bern)

C Unitobler, Lerchenweg 36, room F-121 F Hotel Arabelle, Mittelstrasse

A

D

C

F

B E

Hotel "Isola"

Hotel "Kreuz"

SBB/CFS

Swiss Rail Main Station