Global Middle Eastern Voices

Catalog description

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.