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New Book: "My Heart Became a Bomb" a book of al-Asheq’s poetry translated into English by Levi Thompson

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 17:24:20 +0000

New Book: "My Heart Became a Bomb" a book of al-Asheq’s poetry translated into English by Levi Thompson Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 11/30/2020 - 10:24

Levi Thompson, Assistant Professor of Arabic, was recently interviewed by the popular literary website ArabLit about his work translating the Syro-Palestinian poet Ramy al-Asheq, who now lives in Germany. You can read the interview by Tugrul Mende. Ever Since I Did Not Die, a book of essays translated into English by Dr. Isis Nusair and edited by Professor Thompson, will appear soon with the Arab List at Seagull Books. My Heart Became a Bomb, a book of al-Asheq’s poetry translated into English by Dr. Thompson, will come out with the University of Texas at Austin’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies Press in January 2021 and now My Heart Became a Bomb is available for purchase.

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Levi Thompson Encouraging Students to Go to the Library

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 17:16:32 +0000

Levi Thompson Encouraging Students to Go to the Library Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 12/18/2019 - 10:16

“The students who took advantage of this opportunity had a good experience. Some of the freshmen told me that they had no idea about the amount and variety of resources available to them at the library. The upperclassmen in the other course reported that the experience helped them figure out how to narrow their search for relevant resources.”

The Norlin Library recently published a short story about a library activity Assistant Professor of Arabic Levi Thompson integrated into his courses during Fall 2019 semester. The full story can be found here: /libraries/2019/12/16/faculty-hack-professor-uses-selfies-get-students-library.

First Year Seminar: Headwaters: Going Upriver
Headwaters: Going Upriver in Literature and Film Thomas Levi Thompson, Asian Languages and Civilizations Approved for GenEd - Diversity: Global Perspective Taking account of river journeys as our focal point, this seminar explores headwaters in literature and film. We will also reflect on what it means to travel into the unknown, to seek out unexplored headwaters, to undertake a life-changing journey upriver. Along the way, we will discuss the works of Joseph Conrad, Tayyib Saleh, Ibn Fadlan, Francis Ford Coppola, Ciro Guerra, Werner Herzog, Toni Morrison and Rudaki, among others.

ARAB 3330 The Arabic Novel
Focusing on the origins and development of the novel genre in the Arabic tradition, this course examines both the aesthetic qualities of the genre as an artistic form and the ways that it has depicted and intervened in the modern social, political, and cultural upheavals that have shaped the Arab world in the 20th century. Authors include Najib Mahfuz, Abd al Rahman Munif, Hanan al-Shaykh, and Ghassan Kanafani. Taught in English.

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Mona Attwa Received Best Should Teach Gold Award for 2019

Anonymous — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 16:22:04 +0000

Mona Attwa Received Best Should Teach Gold Award for 2019 Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 09/23/2019 - 10:22

Congratulations to Mona Attwa for being selected as one of this year's winners of the Best Should Teach Gold Award for for excellence in teaching and for outstanding contributions to improving higher education at the �鶹��Ƶ. The Best Should Teach initiative was established in 1996 and is managed by the Graduate Teacher Program in coordination with the School of Education, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Graduate School at the University of Colorado at Boulder. This year’s award committee commended Attwa for her dedication to teaching and mentoring in ALC, and her active participation in the larger teaching and learning community at CU. One student said, “Mona encourages us to follow our dreams and gives us every tool she can in aiding our success. Arabic is a tough language but she makes learning it easy and fun.” Another remarked that “Mona’s attitude, positivity, energy, and passion every day without exception exemplify the Best Should Teach motto.”

The award ceremony was held on Thursday, September 12th from 6-7:30pm in the UMC ballroom. Congratulations also to our lead TAs, Alana Brack and Wenfei Wang for recieving the Best Should Teach Silver Award!

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Students in ARAB 3340 Representing Islam Worked on Podcast Episode for The East Is A Podcast

Anonymous — Mon, 06 May 2019 21:30:36 +0000

Students in ARAB 3340 Representing Islam Worked on Podcast Episode for The East Is A Podcast Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 05/06/2019 - 15:30

In the spring 2019 semester, students in Levi Thompson’s course “Representing Islam” created a podcast episode for the program The East Is A Podcast, produced by Sina Rahmani. During the course, students considered how Islam has been represented, by Muslims and non-Muslims alike, over the centuries. This project is one of many different final projects students completed, all of which dealt with the course topic in some way.

The episode the students produced covers the operations of the Franklin Book Program, an American book-publishing and translation initiative that operated in the Middle East from 1953 to 1979. In it, the students examine the program as an instance of American soft power within the context of Cold War cultural imperialism and give listeners a number of bibliographical notes for further investigation.

You can listen to the Franklin Book Program episode and follow @east_podcast on Twitter for more interviews, trips into the audio archives, and analysis focused on the Middle East.

ARAB 3340 Representing Islam

Explores the cultural politics of representations of the Arab and Islamic worlds both with an emphasis on literary representations of the Islamic world in travel narratives and novels from both the West and the Arab world. Examines historical, anthropological, and visual texts to consider how Islam has been narrated in colonial European imaginings about the Islamic world as well as contemporary representations.

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