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Wednesday May 3
2:30-3:30 PM: Opening
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Latif Zeitouni, Conference Coordinator
• Nabeel F. Haidar, Vice President for Academic Affairs
3:00-4:30
PM: The Lebanese War in the Arabic Novel
Moderator: Samah Idriss
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Salah Fadl – Egyptian Writers’ Perception of the Lebanese
War
• Nabil Sleiman – Syrian Fictional Representation of the
Lebanese War
• Fakhri Saleh – The Image of the Lebanese War in Fictional
Texts in Palestine and Jordan
• Mou'nes Al Razaz – The Lebanese War and the Novel: A Personal
Testimony
4:30-5:00
PM: Break
5:00-6:30 PM: The Lebanese War in World Literature
Moderator: Angelika Neuwirth
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Mona Amyouni – The Francophone War Novel
• Juergen Wertheimer – Nicholas Borns "Die Faelschung."
War Games and Medial Manipulation
• Adnan Haydar – Writing the War: The Lebanese Novel in English
Thursday, May 4
3:00-4:30 PM: The Lebanese War in Local Fiction
Moderator: Abdo Wazen
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Kenneth Seigneurie – Narrative Form and Function in Hassan Daoud’s
"House of Matilde"
• Youmna El Eid – The Protagonist in Lebanese War Fiction
• George Geha – Has the Lebanese War Novel Been Written?
4:30-5:00
PM: Break
5:00-6:30 PM: How Do We Narrate the War?
Moderator: Latif Zeitouni
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An open discussion
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