On Saturday 13 July, between 14.00 and 16.00, Dr. Ziad Elmarsafy is giving a lecture entitled 'Alaa Al-Aswany and the Desire for Revolution' on Floor 2 of Shinsenzan-kan at Japan Women's University Mejiro Campus in Bunkyo-ku. Dr. Elmarsafy will discuss the role of Alaa Al-Aswany, the Arab world's bestselling novelist, in the Egyptian revolution of 2011. The lecture will be given in English.

Dr. Elmarsafy is currently a Reader at the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York, officially recognised as the top English department for research in the UK. His books include the forthcoming Sufism in the Contemporary Arabic Novel (Edinburgh University Press, 2012); The Enlightenment
Qur'an: The Politics of Translation and the Construction of Islam (Oxford: Oneworld, 2009); Freedom, Slavery, and Absolutism: Corneille, Pascal, Racine. Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture (Bucknell University Press, 2003); and The Histrionic Sensibility: Theatricality and Identity from Corneille to Rousseau (2001).

If you have any questions about this event, please contact me on watson[at]fc.jwu.ac.jp.

Date: Saturday 13 July
Time: 14:00-16:00
Location: Shinsenzan-kan, Japan Women's University, Mejiro Campus, 2-8-1 Mejirodai, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo (the nearest subway station is MEJIRO)

Best wishes,

Dr. Alex Watson

Department of English
Japan Women`s University
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