UWP Lecturers Lecture on Postcolonial North African Wed Jan 14 4-6

[John Ganim]

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>The Global Studies Program and the Faculty seminar
>on Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
>
>On the contemporary Maghreb,
>from the Local to the Global: Limits of the journey
>
>Nabiha Jerad
>
>Wednesday, January 14, 2009
>  4-6pm
>Interdiscipinary Seminar Room
>3rd Floor INST
>
>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: "Gender studies in the Mediterranean".
>
>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.
>
>After Orientalism, the Representation of the 
>Self in the Postcolonial Maghreb 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.
>
>Professor Jerad's publications include:
>
>§  "On language planning in 
>postcolonialTunisia". In Trames de 
>langues.J.Dakhlia Edit. Maisonneuve et Larose. Paris. 2004.
>
>§  "From the Maghreb to the Mediterranean: 
>immigration and transnational locations. In 
>Susan Ossman.  The Places we share. Lexington Books. 2007.
>
>§  "The representations of gender in Maghrebi 
>Cinema".  In Between reality and imagination, 
>the construction of women images in the 
>Mediterranean. Beit AL-Hikma Press. Tunis. 2007.
>
>§  "The postcolonial Maghreb: mobility and 
>identity''. In R. Dainotto and E. Zakim Ed. 
>Rethinking the Mediterranean. MLA, in press.
>
>Books
>
>§  On language, discourse and society in Tunisia 
>and France. Press of the University of Tunis.2004
>
>§  New perspectives on Gender issues in the 
>Maghreb". Edit N. Jerad.  Arcantères. Tunis and Paris.  December 2008.
>
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