Arabic Literature in Brazil: Orientalism, Mistura, and the Cultural Politics of Translating Gibran

Dr. Wail Hassan, professor of Comparative Literature and English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Vice President of the American Comparative Literature Association, will present a lecture on Arabic Literature in Brazil.

Sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature, the Middle East/South Asia Studies Program, the Davis Humanities Institute, and the Department of Spanish & Portuguese