Sunday, February 10, 2019
Spring 2019
Modern African & Middle Eastern Literature
Colloquium, Spring 2019
(Faculty and Staff)
Facilitator:
Abdelrahim Salih
Co –Facilitator: Jacqueline Dzubak
The
Modern Middle Eastern & African Literature Colloquium provides analytical, engaging, intellectually stimulating open-ended
discussions aiming to promote exchange of knowledge, sharing of ideas, and building awareness about
Africa and the Middle East.
The first
novel, Beneath the Lion's Gaze, by Maaza Mengiste, 2010, is a
heartbreaking novel set telling the story of the downfall of Emperor Haile
Selassie (King of Kings, Ras-Täfäri) the last of 3,000‐year‐old Ethiopian
Monarchy in 1974 and the life under the Derg (Provisional Military
Government of Socialist Ethiopia), a change that lead to more upheaval, bloodshed
and ethnic conflict across Ethiopia.
The second novel, The Great Agony and
Pure Laughter of the Gods, by Jamala Safari, 2017, is an informative,
gripping novel about child soldiers in in Africa. A story about a traumatized fifteen-year-old
boy in his journey from a warzone in Eastern Congo to safety of a refugee camp
in Mozambique.
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