Morning Session
Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building
9:00-10:00 AM
Akram Khater, North Carolina SU
“We Have Always Belonged: History of Early Arab Americans”
10:15-11:15 AM
Therí A. Pickens, Bates C
“The Tale of the 1002nd Night: The Noble Lineage of Arab American Speculative Fiction”
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Nouri Gana, UCLA
“Orientalism and Self-Critique”
Afternoon Session
Illini Union Bookstore
Author’s Corner, 2nd floor
2:30-3:30 PM
Mohja Kahf, U of Arkansas
Reading from: Hagar Poems
3:45-4:45 PM
Susan Muaddi Darraj, Johns Hopkins U & Harford CC
Reading from: Behind You Is the Sea