MULOSIGE Reading List: Re-Orienting Modernism, Mapping East-East Exchanges
Assistant Professor Levi Thompson (University of Colorado, Boulder) offers a reading list to re-orient conceptions of modernism, drawing on East-East exchanges.
MULOSIGE Reading List: The Poetics of the Orphan In Postcolonial Literature
Matt Reeck (UCLA) offers a guided reading list to interrogate the "Poetics of the Orphan in Postcolonial Literature".
MULOSIGE Syllabus: Science, Literature and Development in the MENA Region
This is a course about the relationship between science, literature and development in the MENA region and the role science fiction in world literature.
MULOSIGE London Libraries Project – Arabic
MULOSIGE is working closely with the Council of Islington and a variety of community centres in a project to make London libraries more multilingual.
MULOSIGE London Libraries Project – English
MULOSIGE is working closely with the Council of Islington and a variety of community centres in a project to make London libraries more multilingual.
Being Human
In this podcast, Dr Vayu Naidu discusses the MULOSIGE project with Professor Francesca Orsini, Itzea Goikolea-Amiano and Jack Clift. As part of the Being Human festival, Dr Vayu Naidu gives a storytelling workshop at the N4 Library and discusses how multiple languages, improvisation and music can create fascinating new paths for stories and literature to travel across the world.
Postcolonial Print Cultures Conference Report
The Postcolonial Print Cultures Conference was convened at SOAS University of London on the 11-12th January 2019. The methodological conditions behind the conference are to consider the historical moment of the Cold War in ways other than by splitting the world into two spheres.
Arab Novelistic Traditions and the many multilingual realities of Arabic
In this piece MULOSIGE researcher July Blalack reflects on her book chapter on the history of Mauritanian novels and how it fits in with the larger project of The Oxford Handbook of Arab Novelistic Traditions (OUP 2017; edited by Waïl S. Hassan). The handbook showcases how the Arabic novel has developed in many different
From indigenous to Catalan?: Shifting paradigms of identity in the limits of Moroccan literatures
Hispanophone Maghribi authors have not yet made inroads into the Spanish literary scene and academia, nor in the Moroccan one. This double absence derives on the one hand from the particularities of this colonial context, but it is also related to the general absence of Hispanophone literatures within the field of postcolonial studies, where issues related to the modern Spanish colonies are not often discussed.
Amazigh, Catalan, Spanish, Moroccan? Said El Kadaoui: Saying No At a Time of Flags
Laura Casielles (Spain, 1986) is a PhD student at the Department of Arabic Studies at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Her research focuses on Moroccan authors writing in French and Spanish as well as on writers of the Moroccan diaspora in Spain and France. She has a degree in Journalism, another one in Philosphy and a master