12.05.2011

Institutskolloquium: When Languages Collide: Street Politics in Israel and Palestine

Yasir Suleiman, University of Cambridge, Wednesday, 18 May 2011 · 14:00 c.t. · Room 124, Institut für Politikwissenschaft

IFP-INSTITUTSKOLLOQUIUM / DEPARTMENTAL SEMINAR

ALL WELCOME!!!

<link http: www.ames.cam.ac.uk general_info biographies islamic suleiman.htm>Yasir Suleiman is His Majesty Sultan Qaboos Bin Sa’id Professor of Modern Arabic Studies and a Fellow of King’s College at the University of Cambridge. His research covers the cultural politics of the Middle East with special focus on identity, conflict, diaspora studies and modernization in so far as these issues relate to language, modern Arabic literature, translation and memory. His most recent books include the following: Arabic, Self and Identity: A study in Conflict and displacement (forthcoming, 2011), A War of Words: Language and Conflict in the Middle East (2004), The Arabic Language and National Identity: A Study in Ideology (2003). He is a member of the editorial boards of a number of journals and book series and serves as Trustee on the Boards of the Arab-British Chamber of Commerce Charitable Fund, the International Prize for Arab Fiction (in association with the Man-Booker Prize), the Banipal Trust for Arab Literature and the Gulf
Research Centre-Cambridge. He is also Board Member of the Islamic Manuscript
Association.

Professor Suleiman is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, formerly Head of the Department of Middle Eastern Studies and Founding Director of
the <link http: www.cis.cam.ac.uk>Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies.