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Middle Eastward

Profile: Egyptian Novelist Sonallah Ibrahim

Abdalla F. Hassan
Cairo,Egypt
June 19, 2003

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EUME Berliner Seminar
Mi. 28 Okt. 2015 | 16:00–17:30

Arab Intellectuals Encounter Another Europe: Sonallah Ibrahim and Mohammed Malas in Moscow

Margaret Litvin (Boston University / ACLS Burkhardt Fellow, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala / EUME Fellow 2016), Chair: Elizabeth Holt (Bard College / EUME Fellow 2015/2016)

Forum Transregionale Studien, Wallotstr. 14, 14193 Berlin

The year is 1973. Two students, Egyptian novelist Sonallah Ibrahim and Syrian filmmaker Mohammad Malas, share a dorm room in icy Moscow. Together they read, debate, drink, meet women, observe Soviet racism and homophobia, and write the script for Malas’ graduation film about an Egyptian prison. Starting from the literary traces of their fateful cohabitation, this talk explores a now largely forgotten flow of twentieth-century culture: the tide of Arab intellectuals who received scholarships to study in the USSR or its satellites.

Their experiences recall a very recent past when the intellectual world was configured differently, when Russia played a significant role (as it now seeks to do again) in channeling the aspirations of Arab peoples. Yet they also show the extent to which artists’ influences

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