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<div align="center"><b><i>The Global Studies Program and the Faculty
seminar<br>
on Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies<br><br>
On the contemporary Maghreb, <br>
from the Local to the Global: Limits of the journey</i> <br><br>
Nabiha Jerad<br><br>
Wednesday, January 14, 2009<br>
4-6pm<br>
Interdiscipinary Seminar Room<br>
3rd Floor INST<br><br>
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Nabiha Jerad is a socio-linguist and specialist in post-colonial studies.
She earned her doctorate at the University of Paris before taking a
position as associate professor at the University of Tunis. She is also
an Associate Researcher with CNRS, France and co- Chair of the Research
group: <i>"Gender studies in the Mediterranean". <br><br>
</i>Professor Jerad has also worked on the semiotics and linguistics
issues in multilingual contexts and on the question of language and
identity in the postcolonial Maghreb. Her work on the construction of
narratives of the self in the Maghreb and among people of Maghrebi
background in Europe has led her to analyze a variety of genres, ranging
from novels to rap and rai music, letters to the editor in the daily
press to architecture.<br><br>
<i>After Orientalism, the Representation of the Self in the Postcolonial
Maghreb</i> is the title of Professor Jerad's current project for which
she has received a Fulbright grant to spend ten months in the United
States. This study aims to contribute to a better understanding of the
complex relationship between the Orient and the Occident by positioning
the Arabs as the "Master of the discourse" both on themselves
and on the Occident, rather than as the object of the West's discourse.
Through the examination of visual and linguistic productions, the project
explores collective identity and representations of the self in the
post-colonial Maghreb. <br><br>
Professor Jerad's publications include:<br><br>
§ "On language planning in postcolonialTunisia". In
<i>Trames de langues</i>.J.Dakhlia Edit. Maisonneuve et Larose. Paris.
2004. <br><br>
§ "From the Maghreb to the Mediterranean: immigration and
transnational locations. In Susan Ossman. <i>The</i> <i>Places we
share. </i>Lexington Books. 2007. <br>
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§ "The representations of gender in Maghrebi
Cinema". In <i>Between reality</i> and <i>imagination</i>,
<i>the construction of women images in the Mediterranean</i>. Beit
AL-Hikma Press. Tunis. 2007. <br><br>
§ "The postcolonial Maghreb: mobility and identity''. In R.
Dainotto and E. Zakim Ed. <i>Rethinking the</i> <i>Mediterranean.</i>
MLA, in press. <br><br>
<i>Books<br><br>
</i>§ <i>On language, discourse and society in Tunisia and
France</i>. Press of the University of Tunis.2004 <br><br>
§ New perspectives on Gender issues in the Maghreb". Edit N.
Jerad. Arcantères. Tunis and Paris. December 2008. <br><br>
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