ARAB 350 - Global Middle Eastern Voices

Credits: 4

This course explores the imaginative voices of those who live across the world but identify the Middle East to be their home. Through the examination of a variety of their cultural production in literature, music, and film, the course engages with critical topics like migration, refugeedom, nationalism/transnationalism, language and translation politics, gender/sexuality, race, home/belonging, and identity by wearing the dual lenses of Postcolonial Cultural Theory and Diaspora Studies. The course pays attention to how diasporic Middle Eastern voices, especially those of women, Afro-Arabs, queer and ethno-religious minorities, reimagine their Middle Eastern homeland vis-a-vis their present country of residence/citizenship. Offered at least once a year.