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Plenary Session III: On Weaving and Deciphering the Biographies of Artists, by Jessica Gerschultz

Third plenary session as part of the Summer School Moving Biography, all welcome Monday, 6 June 2022, 2.30-4pm Sursock Museum Auditorium Plenary session III (moderated by Kirsten Scheid):...

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Plenary Session II: A Conversation on Social and Literary Biographies in Palestine and Egypt with Marilyn Booth and Salim Tamari

Second plenary session as part of the Summer School Moving Biography, all welcome Friday, 3 June 2022, 5-6.30pm AUB, IFI Auditorium Plenary session II (moderated by Sonja Mejcher-Atassi):...

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Plenary Session I: Books/Biographies in the Making, by Daniel Schönpflug and Sherene Seikaly

First plenary session as part of the Summer School Moving Biography, all welcome Thursday, 2 June 2022, 5-7.30pm Orient-Institut Beirut Plenary session I (moderated by Sonja Mejcher-Atassi): Books/Biographies...

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Contemporary Innovations in Arab Biography: A Conversation

Second keynote lecture in the run up to the Summer School Moving Biography Thursday, 21 April 2022, 4-6pm (UTC+3) American University of Beirut, IFI Auditorium, Green Oval A...

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Tarif Khalidi: The Biographical Tradition in pre-Modern Arabic Literature 

First keynote lecture in the run up to the Summer School Moving Biography Wednesday, 30 March 2022, 6-7.30pm (UTC+3) Orient-Institut Beirut Abstract This is an attempt to examine in...

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