Conference Participants

Below please find information on the participants of the Franco-Arabic Cultures Today conference, including speaker bios and paper abstracts.

Ali Abdoulhamid
Affiliation Université des Comores
Bio pdf
Email aabdoulhamid@yahoo.fr
Paper L'Arabo-francophonie dans l'archipel des Comores
Abstract - pdf
Sophie Adamson
Session Chair
Affiliation Elon University
Email sadamson@elon.edu
Sahar Amer
Conference Organizer
Affiliation UNC Chapel Hill
Email samer@email.unc.edu
Martine Antle
Conference Organizer
Affiliation UNC Chapel Hill
Email mcantle@email.unc.edu
Selim Ben Said
Affiliation Pennsylvania State University
Bio pdf
Paper Linguistic Choices and the Expression of Identity in Public Space: A Look at Visual Signs in Tunisia
Abstract - pdf
Email sloumabs@yahoo.fr
Martha Broom
Affiliation UNC Chapel Hill
Bio pdf
Paper The Self as the Other: the recreation of identity in N'Zid by Malika Mokeddem
Abstract - pdf
Email mbroom@email.unc.edu
Mariya Chakir
Affiliation Ohio University
Bio pdf
Paper Langue française et langues locales au Maroc: Rapport de force et reconstruction de l'identité
Abstract - pdf
Email mc302006@ohio.edu
Michelle Chossat
Affiliation Seton Hill University
Paper Contemporary France through Contemporary Franco-Arabic Cinema: From La Haine to Indigènes
Email chossat@setonhill.edu
Mohammed El-Ghawy
Workshop Leader
Affiliation Académie Francophone Cairote des Arts
Email afca.infos@gmail.com
Leila Ennaili
Affiliation University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
Bio pdf
Paper La désorientation transculturelle dans L'Ange de goudron de Denis Chouinard
Abstract - pdf
Email ennaili@uiuc.edu
Marianne Fages
Affiliation Université Paul Valéry
Paper Les identités arabo-francophones et arabes dans les anciennes colonies et protectorat
Email fages.marianne@neuf.fr
Dominique Fisher
Affiliation UNC Chapel Hill
Bio pdf
Paper Avatars transculturels dans Le bonheur a la queue glissante d'Abla Farhoud
Abstract - pdf
Email domfisc@earthlink.net
Bernadette Ginestet-Levine
Affiliation Augusta State University
Bio pdf
Paper Mamoun Lahbabi ou la quête utopique;Trame et chaîne : conte philosophique et conte oriental
Abstract - pdf
Email bgineste@aug.edu
Doris Gray
Affiliation Florida State University
Bio pdf
Paper Contemporary Berber-Arabo-Francophohone Women in Algeria
Email dgray2@fsu.edu
Abstract - pdf
Alec Hargreaves
Keynote Speaker
Affiliation Florida State University
Paper The Political Dynamics of Franco-Arabic Cultures
Email ahargreaves@fsu.edu
Dorothea Heitsch
Session Chair
Affiliation UNC Chapel Hill
Email dheitsch@unc.edu
Izzy Hollis
Affiliation King's College, London
Bio pdf
Paper Between two shores: migration as a double absence
Abstract - pdf
Email hollisizzy@hotmail.com
Christophe Ippolito
Affiliation The Georgia Institute of Technology
Bio pdf
Paper La collection "Patrimoine" de Dar an-Nahar: Une bibliothèque de la Pléïade libano-francophone?
Abstract - pdf
Email christophe.ippolito@modlangs.gatech.edu
Susan Ireland
Affiliation Grinnell College
Bio pdf
Paper Legacies of War: Literary Representations of the Harkis
Abstract - pdf
Email ireland@grinnell.edu
Kathryn Kleppinger
Affiliation New York University
Bio pdf
Paper Reality vs. Invention in “Beur Novels”: The implications of Paul Smaïl’s success
Abstract - pdf
Email kathryn.kleppinger@nyu.edu
Elizabeth Knutson
Affiliation US Naval Academy
Bio pdf
Paper Curricular and Cultural Intersections: Teaching France and the Arab World
Abstract - pdf
Email knutson@usna.edu
Julee Laporte
Session Chair
Affiliation UNC Chapel Hill
Email jlaporte@email.unc.edu
Typhaine Leservot
Affiliation Wesleyan University
Paper Les accomodements raisonnables: Le discours sur le voile au Québec
Email tleservot@wesleyan.edu
Mehammed Amadeus Mack
Affiliation Columbia University
Bio pdf
Paper Métissages frustrés: Mohammed Cohen, the Muslim-Jewish métis, and other experiments in reconciliation
Abstract - pdf
Email mam2225@columbia.edu
Marilia Marchetti
Affiliation University of Catania, Sicily
Bio pdf
Paper Langage poétique et image dans l’œuvre de Salah Stétié 
Abstract - pdf
Email marilia.marchetti@tin.it
Cybelle McFadden Wilkens
Session Chair
Affiliation UNC Greensboro
Email cmwilken@uncg.edu
Jane Moss
Affiliation Duke University
Bio pdf
Paper Arab Immigrants in Montreal
Abstract - pdf
Email jmmoss@colby.edu
Sarah Peterson
Affiliation UNC Chapel Hill
Paper Zineb Sedira: Art in the In-Between
Email sapeters@email.unc.edu
Angela Phillips
Session Chair
Affiliation Warren Wilson College
Email aphillip@warren-wilson.edu
Michael Rulon
Affiliation UNC Chapel Hill
Bio pdf
Paper Teaching Arabic and Franco-Arab Cultures in the United States
Abstract - pdf
Email mrulon@email.unc.edu
Johanna Sellman
Affiliation University of Texas
Bio pdf
Paper Reverse Genealogies: Orality and the Archaic as Sites of Healing in Nabile Farès' Mémoire de l'absent
Abstract - pdf
Email sellmanj@mail.utexas.edu
Moumouni Seyni
Affiliation Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey - Niger
Bio pdf
Paper Culture et enseignement franco-arabe au Niger
Email mseyni@gmail.com
Dana Strand
Affiliation Carleton College
Bio pdf
Paper Assia Djebar’s La femme sans sépulture as Post-Colonial Primer
Abstract - pdf
Email dstrand@carleton.edu
Ellen Welch
Session Chair
Affiliation University of Pennsylvania
Email welche@sas.upenn.edu
Carrie Tarr
Keynote Speaker
Affiliation Kingston University, London
Paper Franco-Arab dialogues in French, Maghrebi and Maghrebi-French cinema(s)
Email C.Tarr@kingston.ac.uk