| Spring Term 2024 Cairo: the Changing City - 4009 - RLST 237 |
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Catalog Description : An examination of the representation of Cairene urban and social spaces in the fictions of contemporary Egyptian writers such as Naguib Mahfouz, Ahdaf Soueif and others. Literary analysis will lead the students to investigate how representations of urban changes become a means for the novelist to reflect on the social and political changes of postcolonial Egypt. Lectures, class discussion and a final paper. Attributes: GER Humanities Div, GER Global Diversity, 200-399 Foundation/Gateway Crs
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