The Department of English, AHI, CAMES, and CASAR at
the American University of Beirut
Cordially invite you to a workshop
On the Circulation, Translation, and
Translatability of World Literature
Brian T. Edwards
Northwestern University
Tuesday 24 February 2015 from 3:30 until 6 pm
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The workshop is open to faculty and students. To reserve a seat
and receive copies of the required reading, please send an email to
sm78@aub.edu.lb by 18 February 2015.
The workshop is followed by a public lecture on 25 February 2015
at 5:30 pm in College Hall B1 entitled “After the American Century:
Ends of Circulation in Casablanca, Cairo, and Tehran”
Bio: Brian T. Edwards is an Associate Professor of English and
Comparative Literary Studies and the Director of the Program in
Middle East and North African Studies at Northwestern University.
He is the author of Morocco Bound: Disorienting America's Maghreb,
from Casablanca to the Marrakech Express (Duke University Press,
2005).