When my collection of short stories based on my years as a UAW worker at the former Cadillac plant in Detroit hit the streets in 2004, many readers were amazed to discover on its pages real human ...

Egyptian author Nawal El Saadawi says her novel "God Dies by the Nile" has even more relevance today than when it was first published in 1974. In the book, daughters and wives in a poor Nile village ...

Introduction to listening, speaking, reading, and writing in Arabic and to the culture of Arabic-speaking regions. This course meets three (3) hours per week in the classroom and requires at least one ...

Offers an excursion into the role and significance of travel and travel writing in Arabic literature in translation. We will read and discuss a range of literary works written by, about and for ...