Sami Michael and
Jewish Iraqi Literature

• Vered Shemtov, AME & and Co-Director, Taube Center for Jewish Studies, Stanford University: Opening Remarks
• Nancy Berg, Jewish, Islamic & Near Eastern Studies, Washington University in St. Louis: Sami Michel and Jewish Iraqi Literature
• Sami Michael in an interview with Uri S. Cohen, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, Columbia University

• Chair: Marie Pierre Ulloa , Mediterranean Forum & Islamic Studies, Stanford University
• Sasson Somekh, Arabic Literature, Tel Aviv University: Baghdad and Haifa: Tales of Two Cities
• Najem Wali, Author, Iraq/Germany: My Story with Victoria

• Chair: Amir Eshel, German and Comparative Literature, Stanford University
• Lital Levy, Comparative Literature, Harvard University: Jewish Writers in the Arab World, 1880-1950: An Alternative Reading of the (Pre)History of Sami Michael
• Edna Amir Coffin, Hebrew Language and Literature, University of Michigan: “It is not easy to be the daughter of an unpopular mother” - Between mothers and daughters

• Chair: Nitza Ben Dov, Hebrew Literature, Haifa University
• Batya Shimony, Hebrew Literature, Ben Gurion University of the Negev: Fathers, Sons and Daughters: Family and National Relationship in Two Novels
• Naama Azulay- Levintal, Hebrew Literature, Bar Ilan University: A Journey from Otherness- Sami Michael Looks for Identity
• Salem Jubran, Author: Son of two languages, Son of two cultures

Evening Event:

• Yigal Schwartz, Heksheim and Hebrew Literature, Ben Gurion University of the Negev The Victory of Victoria and Sami Michael and Vered Shemtov, AME & and Co-Director, Taube Center for Jewish Studies, Stanford University: Sami Michael and Israeli Literature
• Special presentation of signed books
• Dinner

• Chair: Batya Shimony, Ben Gurion University
• Nili Gold, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Penn University: Sami Michael's Haifa in Trumpet in the Wadi
• Nitza Ben-Dov, Hebrew Literature, Haifa University: "Pigeons in Trafalgar Square" by Sami Michael and "The Return to Haifa" by Ghassan Kanafani – Dialogue

Brunch - Location TBA

Sponsored by: Stanford Language Center

11:45 - 1:30 PM

1:30 PM

2:00-3:30 PM

• Chair: Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert, Religious Studies and Co-Director, Taube Center for Jewish Studies
• Ella Shohat, Middle Eastern Studies, New York University: Between Enemy Homelands: Writing the Arab-Jew
• Robert Alter, Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley: Sami Michael and the Political Novel

Sami Michael: Closing Remarks

Special screening: Between Two Notes click here more information