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Hello, The following event may be of interest to you: TIME CHANGE: Through the Syrian Looking-Glass Thursday, May 1, 2014 Please note: The end time is now 7:30 rather than 9pmA lecture by special guest Max WEISS (Princeton)Contemporary Syrian literature bears unmistakable traces of more than four decades of authoritarian Baʿthist rule. This talk explores two recent Arabic novels--In Her Mirrors by Samar Yazbek and Rough Draft by Roza Yassin Hassan--that shed unique light on Syrian cultural politics. In addition to offering a close reading of both texts, I argue that by attending to representations of vision, surveillance and the political in novels—specifically the structure and function of mirrors and screens, eavesdropping and surveillance—literary critics, historians and political scientists may gain important insight into key (albeit under-appreciated) aspects of Syrian culture. Location: Olin Humanities, Room 102 Sponsor: Arabic Studies, Translation Studies; Division of Languages and Literature; Human Rights Program Contact: Amir Moosavi. E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 845-758-7506 If you would like to see more events please visit the following URL: http://www.bard.edu/news/events/