Invited Lecture — Baghdad After Curfew: Memory and the City (UNM)

Dheya al-Khalidi’s ‘Getting to Abu Nuwas Street’

Invited lecture for master’s seminar in architecture, art history, and international studies, “Literature and the City: Urban Change and Urban Narratives,” University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

Cover of Baghdad Noir — Cover of *Baghdad Noir* ed. Samuel Shimon
(http://www.akashicbooks.com/catalog/baghdad-noir/)

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upcoming events

Iman Al-Ghafari Lecture: The Lesbian Subjectivity in Contemporary Arabic Literature: Between Discipline and Punishment April 16, 2021 at 11:00 am – 12:00 pm UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, 10286 Bunche Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA Talk by Iman al-Ghafari; Robert Farley, respondent. Lesbian subjectivities have persistently been neglected, suppressed, misrepresented, or portrayed through the lenses of the inherited and recycled moral views in the mainstream Arab, Islamic and Middle Eastern cultures. In such oppressive socio-political contexts, the independent lesbian subjectivity remains engulfed within the heterosexual morality of the 'closet' that…

Dheya al-Khalidi’s ‘Getting to Abu Nuwas Street’

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