Michael Sells's guest appearances

Michael Sells

Arabic Circle

Divinity School (audio)

Divinity School (video)

Steven Sacks

Richard Rosengarten

Amy Hollywood

Sahar Khamis

Michael Welker

Margaret Mitchell

Joanne Maguire Robinson

Dietrech McGaffey

Dan Laor

Andrea Mattson

John Nuveen

Donald G. York

Reimund Leicht

Gamal Al Ghitany

Matin Heper

OwlTail

Cameron Cross

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu.Cameron Cross on Translating a Work of Yusuf Idris, followed by Michael Sells on Authorial Personas of Ibn al-`Arab.Join Gamal Al Ghitany and participants for discussions on the reception, transformation, and reiteration of classical Arabic biographical and autobiographical literature in modern Arabic fiction, as well as the process of translation and its relationship with the original text.Gamal al-Ghitany is the fall quarter 2013 Mellon Islamic Studies Initiative visitor.  He has been appointed visiting professor of practice.  Practice professorships are reserved for those who have achieved distinction in the creative arts, such as musicians, choreographers, poets, or fiction writers.  Al-Ghitany has published more than forty novels, collections of short stories, and works of literary criticism; and was the founder and, until recently, director of the Egyptian literary periodical Akhbar al-Adab, widely viewed as the most influential literary periodical in the Arab world.   Three of his works were translated by the late Farouk Mustafa Abdel Wahhab, the University of Chicago’s award-winner translator of modern Egyptian fiction: Zayni Barakat (1988); The Zaafarani Files (2009); and The Book of Epiphanies (2012).

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Cameron Cross on Translating a Work of Yusuf Idris, followed by Michael Sells on Authorial Personas of Ibn al-`Arab. Join Gamal Al Ghitany and participants for discussions on the reception, transformation, and reiteration of classical Arabic biographical and autobiographical literature in modern Arabic fiction, as well as the process of translation and its relationship with the original text. Gamal al-Ghitany is the fall quarter 2013 Mellon Islamic Studies Initiative visitor. He has been appointed visiting professor of practice. Practice professorships are reserved for those who have achieved distinction in the creative arts, such as musicians, choreographers, poets, or fiction writers. Al-Ghitany has published more than forty novels, collections of short stories, and works of literary criticism; and was the founder and, until recently, director of the Egyptian literary periodical Akhbar al-Adab, widely viewed as the most influential literary periodical in the Arab world. Three of his works were translated by the late Farouk Mustafa Abdel Wahhab, the University of Chicago’s award-winner translator of modern Egyptian fiction: Zayni Barakat (1988); The Zaafarani Files (2009); and The Book of Epiphanies (2012).

Angle of Vision: Then, Now, and The Arabic Novel - Cameron Cross and Michael Sells

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu.Michael Sells is the John Henry Barrows Professor of Islamic History and Literature in the Divinity School, University of Chicago. Originally recorded May 25, 2007

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Michael Sells is the John Henry Barrows Professor of Islamic History and Literature in the Divinity School, University of Chicago. Originally recorded May 25, 2007

Michael Sells: "A Reading and Translation of Ibn Zaydun's 'Nuniyya'"