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DESCRIPTION:Nouri Gana\,&nbsp\;Associate Professor of Comparative Literatur
 e &amp\; Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of Californ
 ia\, Los AngelesBen Ali\, Dégage: A History of Cultural Dissent in Tunisia
 \, 1934-2011 Narratives explaining the origins of the Tunisian Revolution 
 have focused heavily on the regime’s authoritarianism and socio-economic i
 nequalities. Yet cultural protests in art\, literature and cinema contribu
 ted to Tunisian critiques of the regime for decades. This talk will begin 
 to address the value of cultural dissent in the long history of Tunisia fr
 om colonial to postcolonial times.Nouri Gana is Associate Professor of Com
 parative Literature &amp\; Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the Univ
 ersity of California\, Los Angeles. He is the author of Signifying Loss: T
 oward a Poetics of Narrative Mourning (Bucknell UP\, 2011)\, and the edito
 r of The Making of the Tunisian Revolution: Contexts\, Architects\, Prospe
 cts and of The Edinburgh Companion to the Arab Novel in English (Edinburgh
  UP\, 2013). Refreshments to follow.Sponsored by Executive Education\, LLL
 \, the Humanities Center\, the English Department and the Middle Eastern S
 tudies Program at Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs.
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SUMMARY:MES presents: Nouri Gana
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p></p><p></p><p><b>Nouri Gana\,&nbsp\;</b><i>
 Associate Professor of Comparative Literature &amp\; Near Eastern Language
 s and Cultures at the University of California\, Los Angeles</i></p><p><b>
 Ben Ali\, Dégage: A History of Cultural Dissent in Tunisia\, 1934-2011</b>
 </p><p> Narratives explaining the origins of the Tunisian Revolution have 
 focused heavily on the regime’s authoritarianism and socio-economic inequa
 lities. Yet cultural protests in art\, literature and cinema contributed t
 o Tunisian critiques of the regime for decades. This talk will begin to ad
 dress the value of cultural dissent in the long history of Tunisia from co
 lonial to postcolonial times.</p><p><br></p><p>Nouri Gana is Associate Pro
 fessor of Comparative Literature &amp\; Near Eastern Languages and Culture
 s at the University of California\, Los Angeles. He is the author of Signi
 fying Loss: Toward a Poetics of Narrative Mourning (Bucknell UP\, 2011)\, 
 and the editor of The Making of the Tunisian Revolution: Contexts\, Archit
 ects\, Prospects and of The Edinburgh Companion to the Arab Novel in Engli
 sh (Edinburgh UP\, 2013).</p><p> <br></p><p>Refreshments to follow.</p><p>
 <br></p><p>Sponsored by Executive Education\, LLL\, the Humanities Center\
 , the English Department and the Middle Eastern Studies Program at Moyniha
 n Institute of Global Affairs.</p><p></p><p></p>
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