Themes Mod. Arab Novel Film

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

This course examines some of the major socio- economic and political changes in the modern Arab world through their representations in novel and film. Students will read excerpts from novels and watch movies on some of the dominant themes in Arabic fiction and film, including colonialism, nationalism, religion, gender, and exile. In addition to advancing student's competence at reading modern Arabic prose, class discussions will address the nature of literary and cinematic representations and their intersection with other narrative forms, including historical writing on the modern Arab world. A select number of relevant critical theory and social research articles will also be assigned. Novels and movies will be in Arabic; articles will be in English. However, the language of instruction, discussion, written assignments and final paper is exclusively Arabic.