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Pre-Positional Conjunctions: Sexuality and/in Islam

A lecture by Joseph Massad, Columbia University

Wednesday, January 20, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA United States

Joseph Massad is Associate Professor of modern Arab politics and intellectual history at Columbia University. He is author of Colonial Effects: The Making of National Identity in Jordan (Columbia U.P, 2001), The Persistence of the Palestinian Question: Essays on Zionism and the Palestinians (Routledge, 2006), and Desiring Arabs (U. Chicago Press, 2007). His books have been translated to Arabic and French. Professor
Massad also writes newspaper columns for the Egyptian Al-Ahram Weekly and for the Lebanese Daily, Al-Akhbar. His lecture at UCLA is part of his forthcoming book "Islam in Liberalism.

Cost: Free and open to the public

For more information please contact

Amy Bruinooge, Center for Near Eastern Studies
Tel: 310-825-1181
cnes@international.ucla.edu
http://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/