•Wahid Media Ventures is launching a publication for Muslim Americans entitled, Elan: a magazine of contemporary Muslim culture. Its web site is: www.elanthemag.com. Elan is currently looking for qualified writers.
• UC-RIVERSIDE - OPEN POSITION IN NONFICTION/FICTION
The department of Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside, invites nominations and applications for a faculty member (rank open) in writing of the Middle East and/or the Islamic world and their diasporas. The succesful candidate will have published nonfiction, with additional expertise in fiction, screenwriting, or poetry desirable. Additional expertise in new media, new media technologies and nontraditional ways of disseminating writing would be an advantage, as would prior professional experience in journalism. Successful applicants will demonstrate a commitment to continuing their professional writing and publishing activities and have a broad knowledge of applicable literatures. Teaching duties will include undergraduate and graduate courses and the mentoring of MFA students and supervision of their theses. The candidate will be appointed to the faculty at the Riverside campus but will teach up to two courses per year in the MFA program at the Palm Desert Graduate Center .
Starting date for the position is July 1, 2007.
Review of applications will begin March 1, 2007 and position will remain open until filled.
Prerequisites are prior academic teaching experience, and a record of scholarly and/or professional publication. Ph.D., MFA , MA in the relevant field or professional equivalent.
For more information, contact the department
1607 HMNSS Building
Department of Creative Writing
University of California , Riverside
900 University Avenue
Riverside , CA 92521
Phone: (951) 827-3615
Fax: (951) 827-3619
Charles Whitney, Chair & Professor
Office: 2612 HMNSS Building
Phone: (951) 827-6076
E-mail: chuck.whitney at ucr.edu
http://www.creativewriting.ucr.edu/index.html
• Area CFP: Arab Culture in the U.S. (11/1/06; PCA/ACA, 2/14/07 -2/17/07)
Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association & American Culture Association
The 28th Annual Conference
February 14-17, 2007
http://www.h-net.org/~swpca/
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
http://albuquerque.hyatt.com/property/index.jhtml
Proposals for panels and individual papers are now being accepted for the Area, Arab Culture in the U.S. Here is a possible but not exhaustive list of topics. Other themes/topics are encouraged and welcome.
- Arabs in American media.
- Arab film in the U.S.
- Arab drama, poetry, and prose in the U.S.
- Arab music and dance in the U.S.
- Arab immigration to the U.S.
- Arabs in the U.S. after the 9/11 attacks.
- Arab political, religious, ethnic, linguistic, and sexual identity in the U.S.
Please send an abstract of 250 words, saved in RTF, with relevant audio/visual requests by November 1, 2006 to Lutfi M. Hussein at the e-mail or physical address below. Panel ideas should include one abstract of 200 words describing the panel, accompanied by the underlying abstracts of 250 words of the individual papers that form the panel.
Lutfi M. Hussein
Area Chair, Arab Culture in the U.S.
Mesa Community College
Department of English, Humanities, & Journalism
Mesa, AZ 85202
Phone: +1.480.461.7367
Fax: +1.480.461.7644
E-Mail: Lutfi_hussein@yahoo.com
Homepage: http://www.public.asu.edu/~lhussein/
Graduate students are particularly encouraged to participate in the Conference. See the list of awards available to them: http://www.h-net.org/~swpca/Awards/awards.htm
More information regarding the conference (listing of all areas, registration, hotel, travel, etc.) can be found here: http://www.h-net.org/~swpca/
• The Institute for Women's Studies in the Arab World (IWSAW), at the Lebanese American University, is in the process of soliciting articles for the forthcoming issue of our quarterly publication Al-Raida, which will focus on "Arab Women Writing in English." (For more information on Al-Raida, kindly visit http://www.lau.edu.lb/centers-institutes/iwsaw/raida.html)
The forthcoming issue will be edited by Dr. Norman Nikro. We are interested in receiving academic studies, critical essays, original works, testimonies, and reflections on the topic in question. Submissions could be in the form of a historical overview of Arab women's writing in English; or else short stories, poems, fiction, and autobiographies related to the recurrent themes of gender relations, sexuality, war, migration, discrimination, etc.
If you are interested in contributing to this issue of Al-Raida, kindly send your article as soon as possible. All articles submitted are reviewed by Al-Raida's editorial board and are subject to its approval. Once approval is granted a compensation of USD $100 - 300 is offered for every article, depending on its size and quality of research or originality.
We hope you will find the time to make this contribution to Al-Raida. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, please do not hesitate to email Myriam Sfeir at myriam.sfeir@lau.edu.lb or Dr. Norman Nikro at saado33@hotmail.com.
