Author: Danielle Papa

Professor William Waters appointed Associate Director of Center for the Study of Europe

Professor William Waters, Associate Professor and Chair of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature, has been appointed Associate Director of Center for the Study of Europe effective January 1, 2012. Professor Waters’ role will be to oversee humanities-related events (in collaboration with other humanities faculty) as well as to help develop programs, grants, and events that will deepen […]

Sassan Tabatabai publishes collection of poetry, “Uzunburun”

Sassan Tabatabai publishes a collection of poetry entitled “Uzunburun.” Rosanna Warren writes, “Sassan Tabatabai has composed a book of delicate mourning, exile, and love. Ancient Persia and modern Iran harmonize in his vision, as do the ancient poems of Rudaki and Rumi and the contemporary poems of Kadkani in Tabatabai’s translations. Sensuous, rueful and clear, these […]

Professor Margaret Litvin publishes book, “Hamlet’s Arab Journey: Shakespeare’s Prince and Nasser’s Ghost”

For the past five decades, Arab intellectuals have seen themselves in Shakespeare’s Hamlet: their times “out of joint,” their political hopes frustrated by a corrupt older generation. Hamlet’s Arab Journey traces the uses of Hamlet in Arabic theatre and political rhetoric, and asks how Shakespeare’s play developed into a musical with a happy ending in […]

“Gender Representation and Identity in the Middle East” workshop, organized by Roberta Micallef, held at Boston University on September 24, 2011.

On September 24th, 2011, an international workshop on gender identity and representation in the Middle East was held at Boston University.  “Gender Representation and Identity in the Middle East” was organized by Roberta Micallef. Participants included scholars from U.S. and Middle East and featured talks by Shahla Haeri, Persis Karim, Sylvia Önder, Roberta Micallef, Kecia Ali, Betty […]

Margaret Litvin to host talk with Sulayman Al-Bassam & Prof. Graham Holderness, The “Arab Shakespeare Trilogy”: Staging a Region in Tumult, 2002-2011

The “Arab Shakespeare Trilogy”: Staging a Region in Tumult, 2002-2011 A conversation with dramatic examples: Kuwaiti theatre director Sulayman Al-Bassam , Prof. Graham Holderness (University of Hertfordshire, UK) and Prof. Margaret Litvin (MLCL) Born in Kuwait and educated in Britain, Sulayman Al-Bassam founded the Sulayman Al-Bassam Theatre (SABAB) in Kuwait in 2002. He has directed his […]