Middle East Studies Lecture Series: Susan Friedman

In the face of rising Islamophobia, how have diasporic women writers of Muslim background negotiated their migrant experience? The talk will explore the different responses of diasporic women writers of Muslim backgrounds as they recast East/West binaries in the context of religion and cosmopolitan ideals. It will feature a comparative reading of Mohja Kahf, a Syrian-American novelist and critic, and Marjane Satrapi, an Iranian living in Paris working in both graphic and cinematic forms