CURRICULUM VITAE Name: Evelyne ACCAD Rank: Professor Office address and telephone:

Born: Beirut, Lebanon. Status: Lebanese and American citizen, French residency Department of French, 2090 Foreign Languages Building University of Illinois, 707 South Mathews Avenue Urbana IL 61801 Tel.: (217) 333-2020 or 333-4887 (direct), Fax: (217) 244-2223 email: [email protected], or [email protected] or [email protected] 306 W. Michigan, Urbana, Ill. 61801, Tel: (217) 344-1948. and : Evelyne Accad, 53 Rue Ganneron, Paris 75018, France, tel.: 33-1-42261382, Fax: 33-1-42294159, cel: 33-6-25515702 www.french.uiuc.edu/People/faculty/Accad.html www.harmattan.fr/minisites/index.asp?no=25 www.peuplesmonde.com/spip.php?rubrique6 http://www.bopint.org/

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l. Educational bakground College/University

Dates attended

Degree

Date of award

Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana

1971-73

Ph.D.

1973 Comparative Literature

Ball State University Muncie, Indiana

1967-78

M.A.

1968 French

Anderson College Anderson, Indiana

1965-67

B.A.

1967 English

Beirut College for Women Beirut, Lebanon

1963-65

A.A.

1965 English

2. Academic Positions School/College/University

Position

Dates of service

University of Illinois Lebanese American University

Professor Emerita

2004 till present

University of Illinois Urbana, Illinois

Professor in French Comparative Literature, Member of the core faculty: African Studies Center, Women’s Studies Center, Middle East Studies Campus Honors Program

1988-to 2004

Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois

Visiting Professor in French, African Studies Women’s Studies

Spring quarter 1991

University of Illinois Urbana, Illinois

Associate Professor in French and as above

1979-1988

University of Illinois Urbana, Illinois

Assistant Professor in French and as above

1974-79

Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana

Teaching Assistant in Comparative Literature

1971-73

International College Beirut, Lebanon

Teaching of French and 1968-70 English Lang., Grammar and Lit., with duties as girls' counselor

Anderson College Anderson, Indiana

Part-time Instructor in French

Anderson College Anderson,Indiana

Teaching Assistant in French 1965-67 Language, Grammar and Literature

1967-68

3. Courses taught at U. of I. a. Undergraduate Survey of Modern French Literature Survey of 17th, 18th, and 19th century French Literature French and English Language and Grammar Literature and the other Arts Individual Study: Major Tutorial Conversation Science Fiction Films Individual Topics French Civilization from its Origins to the Present Women in Change: An Introduction to Women's Studies Women in the Arab World Cultural Studies Introduction to Feminist Theory Racism, Colonialism, Sexism and Non-Violent Alternatives in the Middle East, South Africa and Central America (Honor's Studies Program). Today’s World Chaos and Works of Culture’s Imaginary (Honor’s Program) Masterpieces of Francophone Literature in Translation Role of Women in Francophone Literature Images Contrastées France/Etats-Unis Paris : A Multicultural Perspective The impact of globalization and the immigrant experience in Paris b. Graduate Feminisms and the Post-Modern World Modern Literature of Black Africa and the Antilles of French Expression Near Eastern and North African Literature of French Expression Role of Women in Francophone Literature Thesis Research Modern Feminist Criticism French Civilization from its Origins to the Present The Modern Arabic Novel in Translation Feminist Theory: Eastern and Western Perspective Sexuality, War and Literature: Eastern and Western Perspectives L'Ecriture Féministe Le chaos et l’imaginaire Postmodernité: Roman, art et société Gender and War in the Lebanese Novel

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4. University Service (Committee assignments, etc.) - Information and Mediation, French Dept. - Co-Op. Faculty Member of African Studies Program - Co-Op. Faculty Member of Comparative Literature Program - Co-Op. Faculty Member of Women's Studies Program - Co-Op. Faculty Member of Middle East Studies Program - Member of School of Humanities Public Events Committee - Member of African Studies Guest Lecturer Committee - Coordinator of Symposium on African Literature (Spring 1980) - Member of French Department Graduate Policy Committee - Chair of Committee on Expanded French Studies - Member of Committee on Admission and Financial Aid (French Department) - Member of French Department Undergraduate Policy Committee - Member of Study Abroad Committee - Member of Grievance Committee (1975) - Honors Advisor. - Member of African Studies Advisory Committee - Supervised 85 Master theses and 98 Doctoral theses; being the Director of 42 - Member of Advisory Committee of the African Studies Program - Member of Advisory Committee of the Women's Studies Program - Director of the Dakar Exchange Program - Member of Committee on Undergraduate Education. - Undergraduate Education Committee (LAS) - Mentor, Chancellor's Minority Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. - Mentor, Campus Honors Program. - Member of Advisory Committee of the Honors Program - Member of Advisory Committee of the French Department - Evaluator of projects for the Research Board. - Affirmative Action Officer for Women's Studies. - Cohn Scholar Mentor. - Minority Scholar Mentor. - Regional Africanist Fellowship Program Committee. - Women's Studies Scholarship Committee. - Promotion and Tenure Review Committee. - Ford Foundation Seminar Coordinator. - Rockefeller Foundation Dissertation Development Workshop (Arts and Humanities in Africa's Economic and Political Transitions, 1998). - Director of the Illinois Year Abroad Program in Paris, 1998-2001. - Coordinator of the Illinois Year Abroad Program in Paris, 1999-2000. - French Content Advisory Committee (CAC), Illinois State Board of Education, 2003.

5. Public Service (Continuing Ed., Consultancies, etc.) -Editorial Board of Folio (Journal of papers on Foreign Languages and Literature) -Consultant for the Women's Studies International Quarterly -Editorial Board of Al-Raida (Journal of the Arab Women's Institute of Beirut) -Guest Editor for Al-Raida (Special issue on Tunisian Women) -Guest Editor for Cahier du Grif (Special issue on Women and the War in Lebanon) -Consultant for the Social Sciences, the Humanities Research Council and Fulbright. -Evaluator for several national and international promotions. -Reader for New York University Press, University of Illinois Press, Indiana University Press, Princeton University Press and Heinemann. -Advisory Board, Journal of Women's History, Boundary 2: an international journal of literature and culture,"Bulletin Franco-Femmes," de Présence Francophone, International Journal of Nonviolence, Peuples Méditerranéens, The Humanitarian, and Al-Raïda. -World Affairs Speaker for Service of Continuing Education in International Affairs.

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-Ms. Board of Scholars. -Editorial Board of Journal of Maghrebi Studies. -Comité de Parrainage, Fondation Noureddine Aba, Haut Conseil de la Francophonie. -Jury Concours International de Poésie (Prix Emile Snyder), Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France. -Howard Foundation Jury recommendation. -YWCA consultancy, University of Illinois. -Jusoor (The Arab American Journal of Cultural Exchange), Editorial Board. -Consultant for Signs, a Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 1999-. -Editorial Board of Peuples Méditerranéens, a multi-cultural journal based in Paris, on the web as Peuplesmonde. -Appraisal of candidates for the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2000-. -Member of the Advisory Board of WIF Studies (Women in French), 2008-.

6. Awards, Fellowships, Honors -Prix International de Poésie Emmanuel Roblès, 2006. -Conference organized in my honor in Lebanon, Lebanese University, Nov. 24-26, 2005. -International conference organized in my honor in Paris, France by the U of I Alumni, June 16-18, 2004. -Nominated as International Writer of the Year, 2003 (IBC, Cambridge). -Fulbright Research and Teaching Award for Lebanon, spring 2002. -Neustadt Juror to select the International Neustadt International Prize for Literature. -Phœnix Literary Award 2001 for book Voyages en Cancer. -Program for the Study of Cultural Values and Ethics Faculty Research Award, 1996-1997. -Long-term Research Grant from the American Institute for Maghrebi Studies, 1995 -Special Appreciation as Cohn Scholars Mentor. -France-Lebanon Literary Award from ADELF (Association des Ecrivains de Langue Française) for book Des femmes, des hommes et la guerre, 1993, Paris. -International Programs and Studies Award, University of Illinois, 1992-93 and 1993-94. -Study of Cultural Values and Ethics Program Award, fall 1992. -Humanities Released Time, University of Illinois, spring 1989. -Social Science Research Council Grant, 1987-88. -Fulbright Award, 1983-85. -Humanities Released Time, 1985-86. -Delta Kappa Gamma Society International Eductor's Award, for book Veil of Shame, 1979. -Special Recognition Award from the Illinois Arts Council Creative Writing Fellowship, Chicago, Illinois, 1979. -Center for Advanced Study Fellowship, University of Illinois, lst Semester, 1978-79. -Nominated to Outstanding Young Women of America for 1978. -Two Faculty Summer Fellowships, University of Illinois,1975 and 1978. -Florence Howe Award (Honorable Mention) for essay: "New Feminist Consciousness Among Arab Women Novelists." W.C.M.L.A., 1975. -Women's Studies Grant from Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 1973. -Alternate Fulbright-Hays Award, 1973. -Foreign Student Scholarship and Grant-in-Aid from Anderson College, Indiana, 1965-67. -First Prize in French Literature from Collège Protestant Français, Beirut, Lebanon, 1962. Listed in: - Europa Biographical Reference Series, 2008. -www.gale.com, 2005. -Who’s Who in U.S. Writers, Editors and Poets, 2002. -The Writer's Directory, 2000. -Fiches Tromboscopiques Anniversaire de L'Harmattan, 2000. -International Authors and Writers Who's Who, 2000. -International Journal of Middle East Studies, 1991. -International Directory of Scholars and Specialists in African Studies. -The World Who's Who of Women, 1979. -Directory of Scholars and Specialists in Third World Studies, 1980. -Directory of American Scholars, 1999

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-Who's Who of American Women, 1983-86. -Men and Women of Distinction, 1983-84. -Men of Achievement, 1990. -Who's Who in Society, 1989. -The World Who's Who of Women, 1989. -Recueil Biographique de la Francophonie, 1991. -Qui est Qui en Francophonie, 1991-93. -Califa, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France. -WILL Broadcasting Recognition Services, University of Illinois. -International Authors and Writers Who's Who, 1997, 1999. -Les Messageries du Poème (Anthologie de poésie féminine contemporaine d'expression française), 1997. -Directory of American Scholars, 1999. -BRIDGE list of Key Organizations and Individuals Working on Gender, (IWSAW) at the Lebanese American University (Lebanon), in Arabic Language and (IDS)at the University of Sussex, England, 2007.

7. Offices held in Professional Organizations -Fulbright Alumni Association -African Literature Association -American Associates of Teachers of French -African Studies Association -Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages Association -North Eastern Modern Language Association -Delta Kappa Gamma Society International -Arab American University Graduates -Modern Language Association -Midwest Modern Language Association -National Women's Studies Association -Middle East Studies Association -Association des Ecrivains de Langue Française -Société des Auteurs, Compositeurs et Editeurs de Musique -Coordination Internationale des Chercheurs sur les Littératures Maghrébines. -Expert Witness International. -The Coalition Against Trafficking in Women. -AWSA, Arab Women Solidarity Association. -Radius of Arab-American Writers. -Conseil International d'Etudes Francophones. -Fondation Noureddine Aba. (Comité de Parrainage). -The American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS). -Association de la Maison des Gens de Lettres. -Société des Gens de Lettres de France. -Annuaire de l'A.D.E.L.F., Notice Biographique, 1999. -International Authors and Writers Who’s Who, Seventeenth Edition, 2001. -The Writers Directory, 2002. -The Association for One Democratic State in Palestine/Israel, 2003. -Advisory Board of the Feminist Press. New York, 2005. -Advisory Board of WIF (Women in French) as of 2008.

8. Writing Workshops - Club Tahar Haddad, Tunis, 1983 - Arab Women’s Institute, Beirut, 1982, 2001. - Qatar Writing Workshop (Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing) 2009. - CSBR (Coalition for Sexual and Bodily Rights in Muslim Societies) writing workshop, Beirut, AUB, 2009.

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9. Publications a. Books L’Excisée/The Excised, new translation by Cynthia Hahn, bilingual critical edition with introductions and notes. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2009. Femmes du Crépuscule. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2008. The Wounded Breast: Intimate Journeys through Cancer. Melbourne: Spinifex Press, July 2001, 543 pages. Available as ebook through Spinifex, 2006. Voyages en Cancer (Préface Yves Velan). Paris: L’Harmattan, Tunis: Aloès, Beirut: An-Nahar, 2000, 448 pages. Phœnix Literary Award 2001. Blessures des Mots: Journal de Tunisie: (Novel, Paris: Côté femmes, Collection Prémices, June 1993). English edition: Wounding Words: A Woman's Journal in Tunisia (London: Heinemann, African Writers Series, 1996). Les filles de Tahar Haddad (Play, adaptation for the theater, Tunis: Médina, 1995). Des femmes, des hommes et la guerre: Fiction et réalité au Proche-Orient. (Study, Paris: Côté femmes, Collection Femmes et Changements, March 1993. Awarded the France-Lebanon 1993 Prize). Spanish edition: Sexualidad y Guerra. (Indigo ediciones, 1997). Sexuality and War: Literary Masks of the Middle East. New York: New York University Press, 1990 (Paperback edition, 1992), on SoftLine, Web Site (Women R.) (1997). Coquelicot du massacre. (Novel on the war in Lebanon, with cassette of songs.) Paris: L'Harmattan, 1988. Bilingual edition, English translation and preface by Cynthia Hahn, Poppy from the massacre. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2006. Contemporary Arab Women Writers and Poets, with Rose Ghurayyeb. (Monograph.) Beirut: Institute for Women's Studies in the Arab World, 1986. On Line with Questia (www.questia.com) 2000. L'Excisée. (Novel.) Paris: L'Harmattan, 1982 (second edition 1992). (English translation. Washington: Three Continents Press, 1989, German, Arabic, Rumanian and Chinese translations. Second Augmented English edition published as The 6

Excised, with author's introduction, 1994). Die Beschnittene. Bonn: Horlemann Verlag, 2001. Montjoie Palestine! or Last Year in Jerusalem (bilingual edition, translation of the dramatic poem by Noureddine Aba with an introduction and notes.) Paris: L'Harmattan, 1980. Second bilingual augmented edition with It Was Yesterday Sabra and Shatila (trans. By Prof Toman), 2004. Veil of Shame: The Role of Women in the Modern Fiction of North Africa and the Arab World. Sherbrooke: Naaman, 1978. 182 pp. (Awarded 1979 Delta Kappa Gamma International Educator's Award.) On Line with Questia (www.questia.com) 2000. b. Edited Volumes Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Global Women’s Issues and Knowledge. (Editor of the Violence and Peace Section). New York/London: Routledge, 2001. Co-Directed an issue of the Paris-based journal Mediterranean Peoples: "Femmes et Poèmes de Tunisie," Peuples Méditerranéens No 80, 1999. Directed two issues of the Paris-based journal Mediterranean Peoples: "Nouvelles d'Egypte" et "Etudes sur la Littérature Egyptienne," Peuples Méditerranéens No 76 et 77 (juillet- septembre), (octobre-décembre) 1996. Tunisian Women Speak. (Beirut: Institute for Women's Studies in the Arab World, 1986) directed special issue of Al-Raida with editorial. c. Book Chapters « Oum Achraf, une femme entre mythe, rêve et réalité, » L’insistante, La insistente. Deuxième partie : Les mutantes/Las mutantes, avec CD. (Edition Michèle Ramond) México/Paris: Adehl Rilma2, Traverses, 2008. “S’(écrire): des femmes francophones libanaises, » Problématiques identitaires et discours de l’exil dans les littératures francophones. (sous la direction de Anissa Talahite-Moodley) Ottawa : Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa, 2007. “Lebanon, summer 2006,” Of War, Siege, and Lebanon: Women’s Voices from the Middle East and South Asia, Coalition for Sexual and Bodily Rights in Muslim Societies. Turkey: WWHR, Women for Wome’s Human Rights – New Ways, 2006.

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“Une expérience fémihumaine: Réflexion avec chants composés par l’auteur, musique et paroles.” La femme existe-t-elle? Existe la mujer?. (Edition Michèle Ramond) México/Paris: Adehl Rilma2, 2006. “La relation de Vénus Khoury-Ghata à l’écriture.” Des femmes et de l’écriture: Le basin méditerranéen. Paris: Karthala, 2006. Excerpt from The Wounded Breast: Intimate Journeys through Cancer Recurrences: "Move on, the earth will take your shape" (Andrée Chedid) in forthcoming Anthology, Arab American and Diaspora Literature. “Gender Violence in the Lebanese War Novel,” Confrontations: Essays in The Polemics of Narration (ed. William Kimbrel & John Wall) North Cyprus: Eastern Mediterranean University Press, 2004. “Femmes dans l’écriture d’Andrée Chedid,” in Aux frontiers des deux genres (ed. Carmen Boustani). Paris: Karthala, 2003. “Sexuality and Sexual Politics”, (in German) Abschied vom Harem. Selbst- und Fremdverständnis muslimischer Frauen (ed. Houda M. Youssef). Berlin: Orlanda Frauenverlag GmbH (November 2003) "Femmes de Tunisie," with Amel Ben Aba for "Femmes et Poèmes de Tunisie," Peuples Méditerranéens No 80, 1999. "Sexuality and Peace Activism," Sexual Aggression: Key Research and Activism. (edited by Sean Gilmore, Allegheny College) Thomas Pub, forthcoming. "All Around Still," Post-Gibran: Anthology of New Arab American Writing. (edited by Munir Akash & Khaled Mattawa) Syracuse University Press, Jusoor Book, 1999. "Truth Versus Loyalty." Radically Speaking: Feminism Reclaimed. (Edited by Diane Bell and Renate Klein) Victoria, Australia: Spinifex Press, 1996. "Entre deux," Emotions. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994. "Nawal El Saadawi," Fifty African and Caribbean Women Writers. (forthcoming).

Greenwood Press

"Rebellion, Maturity, and the Social Context: Arab Women's Contribution to Literature," Arab Women : Old Boundaries, New Frontiers.(ed. by Judith Tucker) Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993, pp. 224-253. "Sexuality and Sexual Politics: Conflicts and Contradictions for Contemporary Women in the Middle East," Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991, pp. 237-250.

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"The Excised," Opening the Gates: A Century of Arab Feminist Writing. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991, pp. 168-173. "Sexual Politics: Women in Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North. A Case Book. (Edited by Mona Amyuni, Beirut: AUB, 1986) pp. 55-63. "The Prostitute in Arab and North African Fiction," The Image of the Prostitute in Modern Literature, New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1984. pp. 63-75. "Women's Voices from the Maghreb," Arabic Literature in North Africa, Cambridge: Dar Mahjar, 1982, pp. 18-34. "Entre Deux," Contes et Nouvelles de Language Français. Sherbrooke: Cosmos, (1976), pp. 9-29. (Received Special Recognition from Illinois Arts Council Creative Writing Fellowships [1978]). "The Theme of Sexual Oppression in the North African Novel" in Women in the Moslem World, Cambridge: Harvard Press, 1978. pp. 617-628. d. Internet “Honor related violence and patriarchy: Honor stronger than life,” in www.peuplesmonde.com: rubrique femmes et mondialisation, mardi 18 mars 2008. With Paul Vieille, «Extase dans un monde dénué de sens : Socio-anthropologie de la drogue au début des années 90, » in www.peuplesmonde.com: Peuples & Monde. Le Débat, dimanche 9 mars 2008. “Une femme du Caire: Oum Achraf – Entre mythe, rêve et ralité, » in www.peuplesmonde.com: rubrique femmes et mondialisation, mercredi 13 juin 2007. Creation and direction of a domain "Women and globalization," with a world women network, on "Peoples and the World" now open as www.peuplesmonde.com. Poem on Baghdad on www.voicesinwartime.org. Of War, Siege and Lebanon: Women's voices from the Middle East and South Asia is now available online at http://www.wwhr.org/id_922. The publication, including texts by Evelyne Accad, Pinar Ilkkaracan, Nadera ShalhoubKevorkian, Dina Siddiqi and Zeina Zaatari, is compiled by the Coalition for Sexual and Bodily Rights in Muslim Societies, a bi-regional network of academicians and NGOs working toward the promotion of sexual and bodily rights in Muslim societies.

e. Articles “Beyrouth, qui me bouleverse,” Liban, des mots entre les maux, Revue des littératures de langue française. Paris : Riveneuve, # 9, Automne 2009, pp. 123-128. “Gender and Two Major Traumas of our Century: War and Breast Cancer,” Gender and Trauma: some attempts at critical intervention into the past Ed. Fatima Festic (forthcoming, University of California Press).

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« Creative Gender and Postcolonial Realities: Debates on Excision,” Meridian Magazine, Spelman’s College, Atlanta, Georgia, 2009. “The Objectification of Women in War Zones,” The Public: Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center. Champaign-Urbana, March 2009, Vol. 9 #2, p.4. “Cancer Speaks in War Language,” Language and Power: The Implications of Language for Peace and Development. Proceedings IMPLAN 2008 Conference, University of Oslo. Dar es Salaam: Mkuki na Nyota, 2009, pp. 73-79. “Comment parler de toi Liban? : Identité plurielle et complémentarité, » Liban : Université de Balamand, Actes du colloque international sous la direction de Georges Dorlian, Francophonie Conflit, Complémentarité Indentitaire ? Université de Balamand, 2007, pp. 939-944. « The Importance of Music in my Writing and ‘Engagement’, » Al-R aïda: Arab Women Writing in English. Beirut: Institute for Women Studies in the Arab World (Issue 118-119, Summer/Fall 2007), pp. 8-13. “Mots et chants pour dire la douleur et la colère,” Publication actes des sixièmes rencontres internationales des écritures de l’exil « D’Encres et d’Exil 6. Le Liban, entre rêve et cauchemar, » Bibliothèque du Centre Pompidou, Paris 2007. “Témoignage d’Evelyne Accad,” dans Yolaine Simha’s Lou et les Louis, Un champ d’acier, Le fiancé inconnu et In petti. Paris: Indigo/Côté femmes, 2006. “Etel Adnan,” ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WOMEN IN WORLD HISTORY (WWH), Oxford University Press, 2007. Editor in chief Bonnie G. Smith (Board of Governors Professor of History, Rutgers University) “Gender, Conflict and Peace: Gender and Violence in the Lebanese War Novels,” chapter 18, in EMPOWERING WOMEN Participation, Rights, and Women’s Movements in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia (Edited by Valentine M. Moghadam) Forthcoming Syracuse University Press. “Bagdad, Beyrouth: combien de morts encore?” in La cendre des mots-Poèmes et textes-Après l’incendie de la bibliothèque de Bagdad, textes sur l’indicible. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2003. “Body Image and Breast Cancer,” in Al-Raïda (Vol. XX, No. 99, Fall 2002-03) pp. 49-54. "The Phallus of September Eleven," in September 11, 2001: Feminist Perspectives (Eds Susan Hawthorne and Bronwyn Winters) Melbourne: Spinifex, Sept. 2002. “Revisiting Beirut, The City That Moves Me,” World Literature Today, (Winter 2002), pp. 85-89. “Introduction au Corps Epique,” Corps Epique. Paris: L’Harmattan. Paris, 2002, pp. 1-2.

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“Writing One’s Life: Arab Francophone Women,” Contemporary French Civilization, (Winter/Spring 2002, Vol. XXVI, #1), pp. 46-62. “Violence and Peace: Overview,” Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Global Women’s Issues and Knowledge. New York/London: Routledge, 2001, pp. 1986-1991. “Literature: Arabic,” Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Global Women’s Issues and Knowledge. New York/London: Routledge, 2001, pp. 1251-1254. “Guns and Roses: On Sexuality and War,” The Little Magazine (Jan-Feb. 2001), pp. 7-15. "Femmes de Tunisie," with Amel Ben Aba for "Femmes et Poèmes de Tunisie," Peuples Méditerranéens No 80, juin 1999. "La construction de l'excision suivi d'un entretien avec Nawal Saadawi," Peuples Méditerranéens No 78, janv.-mars 1999. "Le génie d'Andrée Chedid," Revue des Lettres et de Traduction, Kaslik, Lebanon: Université Saint-Esprit, Faculté des Lettres, 2000. "Saadawi's Woman at Point Zero," The Companion to African Literature in English, James Currey and Indiana University Press, 2000. "Chants-Cris: Poèmes dans Voyages du Cancer," Anthologie des Messagères du Poème. Paris: Côté-femmes, forthcoming. "Sexuality and Sexual Politics: Conflicts and Contradictions for Contemporary Women," Women and Sexuality in the Muslim World. Turkey, Istanbul: Women for Women's Human Rights, June 1999. "Scholarship... Novel Writing and Music," with Laurie King-Irani, Al-Raïda. Beirut: IWSIAW, Vol XIII, No. 73 Spring 1996. "Endorsement," for Tracy Sharpley-Whiting's Frantz Fanon: Conflicts and Feminisms. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Pub, Inc., 1998. "Présentation," avec Nabil Naoum, Peuples Méditerranéens, No 76 (juillet-septembre) 1996, pp. 710. "Entre deux," Nouvelle Donne, No 17, 2e trimestre (Avril 1998), pp. 25-30. "A(e)ncre san(g) censure," Présence Francophone, No 51, 1997, pp. 7-22. "Trois chansons," Ecritures de Femmes: Nouvelles Cartographies. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, fall 1996.

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"Assia Djebar's Contribution to Arab Women's Literature: Rebellion, Maturity, Vision," World Literature Today, A Literary Quaterly of The University of Oklahoma, Autumn 1996. "Une poétesse avait pressenti le drame libanais: Nadia Tuéni," Revue des Lettres et de Traduction, Kaslik, Lebanon: Université Saint-Esprit, Faculté des Lettres, No.2, 1996, pp. 125-134. "Violence and Sexuality," Sexual Aggression: Key Research and Activism, Purdue University Press, Thomas Publishing (Forthcoming). "My Journey with Cancer," Al-Raïda (Vol. XI, No 67, Fall 94) pp. 10-13. "Verstümmelung von Leib und Seele," Shaffhauser Nachrichten No 212, Mittwoch, 13, Switzerland, Sept. 95. "Writing to Explore (W)Human Experience," and "Profil d'une œuvre: Andrée Chedid," Bahithat: Women and Writing (Vol. II, 1995-96) pp. 109-124, and pp. 219-228. "Arab Women's Literary Inscriptions: A Note and Extended Bibliography," College Literature (Vol. 22.1, Feb 95) pp. 172-180. "Gender and Violence in Lebanon and Yugoslavia," Al-Raïda (Vol. XI, No 65/66, spring/summer 1994) pp. 38-41. "Excision: Practices, Discourses and Feminist Commitment," Feminist Issues (Vol. 13, No. 2, Fall 93) pp. 47-68. "Mon pays sans visage," (extraits) Envol (Vol. II, no. 1, Hiver 94) pp. 20-22. "Femminismo è occidentale? Dal diaro tunisino di Evelyne Accad," translation with introduction of excerpt of my novel Blessures des Mots by Paola Redaelli, Lapis, 21, (1994) pp. 50-55. "Third World Women and the Family," Al-Raïda (Fall 93, Vol. X., No. 63) pp. 9-11. "Naissance de Nissa'," Journal of Maghrebi Studies (Spring 93, Vol. 1-2, No. 1) pp. 79-85. "L'exil et le retour, des mélanges créateurs/forces innovatrices," d'aujourd'hui. Rodez: Cahiers du Haut-Pays, 1993, pp. 5-8.

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"Forward," A Walnut Sapling on Masih's Grave and Other Stories by Iranian Women (ed. John Green and Farzin Yazdanfar) pp. xiii-xv. "Violence, War and Peace: In the Context of Lebanese Women," International Journal of Nonviolence (Vol. 1, No. 1, Sept. 93) pp. 23-28. "Extraits de Blessures des Mots," Sapriphage (No. 12, janv. 1992) pp. 16-19.

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"L'écriture (comme) éclatement des frontières," Postcolonial Women's Writing in French, L'Esprit Créateur (ed. Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi).(summer 1993. Vol. xxxiii, No. 2) pp. 119-128. "Andrée Chedid: Amour et Vision," Atelier Théâtr' Elles (reprint from Revue Sud, spring 1991, pp. 43-52). "Perspective féministe," Nouvelles du Liban (No 10-Juin 1992) pp. 23-26. "Guerre et sexualité: Vision féministe d'une libanaise," Plurial 2, 1991, pp. 45-55. "We Will Rebuild It," Ms: The World of Women (Sept/Oct. 1991) p. 35 "Le miroir brisé et le désir de mort," Peuples Méditerranéens : Stratégie I., (No. 58-59, janv.-juin 1992), pp. 163-188. "Writing to Explore (W)Human Experience," Research in African Literatures. (No. 23.1, spring 1992) pp. 179-185. "Sexuality and the War Novels in Lebanon," Feminist Issues. (Vol. 11, No. 2, fall 1991) pp. 27-42. "Romans de Guerre et Sexualité," Nouvelles du Liban. (mars/avril 1991), pp. 38-43. "Andrée Chedid: Amour et Vision," Les Cahiers du Sud. (spring 1991), pp. 43-52. "Guerre et sexualité dans le roman libanais," Les Cahiers du Grif/Liban. (summer 1990, No. 43/44) pp. 171-186. "Enchaînements du chaos," (with Paul Vieille) Les Cahiers du Grif/Liban. (summer 1990, No. 43/44) pp. 141-152. "Bibliographie de la guerre du Liban," Les Cahiers du Grif/Liban. (summer 1990, No. 43/44) pp. 189-196 "Arab Women's Literature," Canadian Women Studies/Les Cahiers de la Femme (Vol. 8 No. 2, 1987) pp. 96-101. "Freedom and the Social Context: Arab Women's Special Contribution to Literature," Feminist Issues (Vol. 7, No. 2, 1987) pp. 33-48. "Salammbô femmes," CELFAN(VII:1-2, 1987-88) pp. 30-37. "Coquelicot du massacre," CELFAN, (V:1, Nov. 1986) pp. 20-24. "Feminist Perspective on the War in Lebanon," Women's Studies International Forum., Vol. 12, no 1, pp. 91-95, 1989.

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"Mashreq et Maghreb Women Writers of Arabic Expression," CELFAN VII: 1-2, 1987-88, pp. 4348. "Impressions Cèdres et Cendres," Al-Raida (1984, Vol. VII, No. 30) pp. 14-15. "Myriam Ben 'écho multiple des labeurs de l'âme humaine'," Al-Raida (1984, Vol. VII, No. 29). "Nadia Tuéni," "Marguerite Taos-Amrouche," "Vénus Khoury-Ghata" in Ecrits de Femmes. Paris: Stock, 1984. "We have a city to patch up," Al-Raida (1984, Vol. VII, Nos. 27-28), p. 23. "Report on a Research Trip," Al-Raida (1984, Vol. VII, Nos. 27-28), pp. 6-9. "Les plis du voile," Sinbad. No. 24 (Sept.-Oct., 1983), p. 13. "Layla, a young revolutionary woman," "Perhaps it would be enough." Afro-Asian Perspectives. #2, 1983. "Women's Voices from the Maghreb, "Mundus Arabicus (Vol. 2, 1982), pp. 18-34. "Entretien avec Andrée Chédid," Présence Francophone (No. 24, printemps 1982), pp. 157-174. "The Mediterranean Spirit in Emmanuel Roblès," Celfan Review (I: 3, 1982), pp. 29-31. "Noureddine Aba," Arab Perspectives (Vol. 1, No. 9), Dec. 1980, pp. 39-45. "A ma tante Souad," Ecriture Française. Sherbrooke: Naaman (No.1,79), pp. 55-56. "Interview avec Chantal Chawaf," Présence Francophone. Sherrooke, Canada, No. 17 (1978), pp. 151-161. "Women in Conflict: A Comparative Study of Debèche and Taos-Amrouche," Folio, State University of New York. No. 11 (August, 1978), pp. 9-16. "The Veil of Shame," Women's International Network, V. 2, No. 3 ('77), pp. 53-54. "Images of the Mother in the North African Novel," Al-Raida Beirut, 1977 (Vol. 11, No. 8), pp. 910. "Interrelationship Between Arab Nationalism and Feminist Consciousness in the North African Novels Written by Women," Ba Shiru (Journal of African Languages and Literature), Vol. 8, No. 2 (1977), pp. 3-12.

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Poetry and short story in Mundus Artium, University of Texas, V. IX, No. 2. (1976), pp. 54-57. "En Vain" in Student Advocate, Vol. 1, issue 4, Champaign-Urbana. (1976). "La longue marche des héroînes des romans modernes du Mashreq et du Magreb" in Présence Francophone. Sherbrooke, Canada, (No. 12 Jul.76), pp. 3-11.

f. Reviews -Review of Chantal Zabus Between Rites and Rights: Excision in Women’s Experiential Texts and Human Contexts. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007, xviii + 324 pp., in Research in African Literature (2008). -Review of Mark Graham’s Afghanistan and the Cinema: The Politics of Representation for The University of Illinois Press, summer 2008. -Forward to Rajakumar Mohanalakhsmi’s Haram in the Harem: Domestic Narratives in India and Algeria. New York: Peter Lang, 2009. -Forward to Samira Aghacy’s Masculine Identity in the Fiction of the Arab East since 1967. Syracuse University Press, 2009. -Blurb for Fatima Festié’s The Body of the Postmodernist Narrator: Between Violence and Artistry. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholar’s Publishing, 2009. -Review of Michael O’Riley. Postcolonial Haunting and Victimization: Assia Djebar’s New Novels. New York, Washington, D.C./Baltimore, Bern, Frankfurt, Berlin, Brussels, Vienna, Oxford: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 2007. 145 pp for Modern and Contemporary France reviews books (2008). -Review of Nadia Tuéni: Lebanon, Poems of Love and War/Liban, poèmes d’amour et de guerre, A Bilingual Anthology. Edited by Christophe Ippolito/Translated from the French by Samuel Hazo and Paul B. Kelley. New York: Syracuse University Press and Beirut: Dar An-Nahar Press, 2006. 122 pages. Paper $ 24.95, in WLT, 2007. -Review of Susan Muaddi Darraj, ed. Scheherazade’s Legacy: Arab and Arab American Women on Writing in World Literature Today, 2005. -Review of Carmen Boustani’s Effets du féminin: Variations narratives francophones. and Aux frontières des deux genres: En homage à Andrée Chedid in World Literature Today, 2005. -Review of Al-Jazeera program "For women alone" for the Palestinian Review of Society and History, 2004. -Review of Elizabeth Heger Boyle's Female Genital Cutting: Cultural Conflict in the Global Community (Johns Hopkins, 2002) for H-Gender-MidEast (2004). -Review of a manuscript “Diasporic Identity in Arab-American Women’s Writing,” for Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, 2004. -Review of Réda Bensmaïa’s Experimental Nations of the Invention of the Maghreb in World Literature Today (Sept-Dec. 04)p. 156. -Review of Astrid Gateau’s Le corps épique in World Literature Today (July-Sept. 03) pp. 119-120. -Review of Michelle Hartman’s Jesus, Joseph and Job in International Journal of Middle East Studies (Forthcoming). -Review of Susan Hawthorne’s Wild Politics for The Canadian Women’s Studies Journal: Special Issue on PeaceBuilding. (Volumes 22, Numbers 2). -Review of Hédi Bouraoui (ed.)’s Tunisie Plurielle. Vol.I Actes du Colloque de l’Université de York in Research in African Literature (The Ohio State University, Vol. 32. No.1. spring 01) pp. 171-172. -Endorsement of edited book by Claire Robertson and Stanlie James’ Genital Cutting and Transnational Sisterhood. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2002. -Review of Milagros Palma’s L’Evêque in World Literature Today (Winter 2002), pp. 223. -Review of Salah Stétié’s Mahomet in World Literature Today (Winter 2002), p. 180. -Review of Sonallah Ibrahim’s Charaf ou L’Honneur in World Literature Today (Summer/Autumn 2001), p. 229. -Endorsement of Anne Donadey's Recasting Postcolonialism: Women Writers Between Worlds. London & New York: Heinemann, 2001. -Endorsement of Deena Metzger's The Other Hand to be published by The Red Hand Press (Palmdale, CA, 2000). -Endorsement of Nada Elia's Trances, Dances, and Vociferations: Agency and Resistance in Africana Women's Narratives for Routledge (New York, 2000). -Review of Assia Djebar's Ces voix qui m'assiègent in World Literature Today, spring 2000, p.340.

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-Review of "Coverture in Lebanon," for Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 1999. -Review of Ghada Samman's The Square Moon: Supernatural Tales, in World Literature Today, Autumn 1999. -Review of Miriam Cooke's Women and the War Story in Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 21, No 4th, July 98, Routledge, pp. 786-87. -Review of Fedwa Malti-Douglas' Men, Women and God(s) in The Yearbook of Comparative Literature 43 (1995), pp. 175-178, and in Al-Raïda, Vol. XIII, Nos. 74 & 75, Summer/Fall 1996, pp. 63-64. -Review of Assia Djebar's Loin de Médine in The Middle East Studies Journal 29, 95, pp. 263-264. -Review of Etel Adnan's Of Cities and Women and Paris, When It's Naked in World Literature Today (spring 1994). -Review of Jean Digot's Que dire, que faut-il dire aux hommes? in World Literature Today. (spring 1993) -Review of Salah Stétié's L'interdit in World Literature Today (autumn 1993). -Review of Nine Moati's Le palais de la Néva in World Literature Today (autumn 1993). -Review of "Translation of the Orient: Writing the Maghreb. Spec. issue of SubStance 21.3 (1992)," in Research in African Literature (Spring 1994, Vol. 25, No. 1). -Review of Journal of Maghrebi Studies (Special issue on Maghrebi Women, founder/ed. Rachid Ameziane-Hassani) and Robin Morgan's The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches 1968-1992 in Al-Raïda (summer 93, Vol. X., # 62). -Review of Vénus Khoury-Ghata's La maîtresse du notable in World Literature Today (autumn 1992) -Review of Opening the Gates: A Century of Arab Feminist Writing in Al-Raïda # 67, Spring 1992, p. 21. -Review of Nine Moati's Rose d'Alger in World Literature Today (summer 1992). -Review of Assia Djebar's Loin de Médine in World Literature Today. (winter 1992) -Review of Fadia Faqir's Nisanit in World Literature Today (spring 1991). -Review of Fedwa Malti-Douglas' Woman's Body, Woman's Word: Gender and Discourse in Arabo-Islamic Writing in Journal of Women's History (Vol. 4, No. 1, Spring 1992) pp. 148-150. -Review of Nawal El Saadawy's Searching in Al-Raïda (Vol X, No. 56, 1992) p. 27 (WLT, summer 1992) -"Too Simplistic a View," MERIP Report (Jan/Feb 1992, No 174, Vol 22, No. 1) p. 45. -"Response fo Ghandour's Review of Cooke," Middle East Studies, 23. -Review of Ghassan Kanafani's All That's Left to You in World Literature Today (summer 1991) and Al-Raïda (fall 1991). -Review of Edouard Maunick's Toi laminaire in ABPR Book Reviews (Vol. XVIII, no 1, 1992) p. 29. -Review of Paul Vieille and Farhad Khosrokhavar's Le discours populaire de la révolution iranienne in The Journal of Women's History (forthcoming) and MERIP (forthcoming). -Review of Sara Ruddick's Maternal Thinking: Toward A Politics of Peace in Women's Studies International Forum and in Al-Raïda (Feb. 90, Vol VIII, No. 48) -Review of Emmanuel Roblès' Les rives du fleuve bleu in World Literature Today (Winter 1991). -Review of Sapriphage in World Literature Today (Spring 1990). -Review of Etel Adnan's The Arab Apocalypse in World Literature Today (Spring 1990) and in Al-Raïda (Feb 90, Vol. VIII, No. 48) -Review of Christiane Achour's Myriam Ben in World Literature Today (forthcoming) and in Al-Raïda (forthcoming) -Review of Miranda Davies' Third World-Second Sex I and II in NWSA Journal (Vol. 1, no 3, 1989). -Review of Miriam Cooke's "War's Other Voices: Women Writers on the Lebanese Civil War in AMEWS (fall 1988, pp. 15-17) and in The American Book Review (Summer 1989). -Review of Mahmoud Manzaloaoui's Arabic Short Stories in ABPR Book Review (Vol. XIII, no. 4, 1988) p. 249. -Review of Sudan Kenyon's The Sudanese Woman in ABPR Book Review (Vol XV, no. 3, 1988) p. 184. -Review of L'Esprit créateur XXVI, I. Maghrébine Literature of French Expression (Spring 1986) in Research in African Literature (Fall 88, v. 19, no. 3). -Review of Hédi Bouraoui's Robert Champigny: poète et philosophe in L'Esprit Créateur and in World Literature Today (forthcoming). -Review of Françoise Collin's Le rendez-vous in World Literature Today (summer 1988) and in Al-Raida (summer 1988). -Review of Marc Gontard's Nedjma de Kateb Yacine: Essai sur la structure formelle du roman in CELFAN (V. 3, 1986) pp. 28-30 and in Research in African Literature (Vol. 18, No. 3, 1987) p. 385). -Review of Vénus Khoury-Ghata's Mortemaison in Al-Raida (V. VIII, No. 40, 87) p.4. -Review of Philippe Renaud's Ramuz ou l'intensité d'en bas in World Literature Today (Spring 1987). -Review of Chochana Boukhobza's Un été à Jérusalem in World Literature Today (Autumn 1987). -Review of Mona Takieddine Amyuni's Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North in Research in African Literature (Vol. 18, No. 3, fall 1987) pp. 383-84.

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-Review of Laila Said's A Bridge through Time: A Memoir in WLT (summer 1986) in MERIP (No. 143, Nov.-Dec., 1986). -Review of Hanan el-Cheik's Histoire de Zahra in World Literature Today (Spring 1986) -Review of Charlotte Bruner's Unwinding Threads in Al-Raida (Aug. 1, 1986, Vol. III, No. 37) pp. 9-10. -Review of Christian Giudicelli's Le point de fuite in World Literature Today (Summer 1985). -Review of Susan Brown, Isabel Hofmeyr and Susan Rosenberg's LIP from Southern African Women in the African Book Publishing Record (Vol. XI, No. 4, 1985) p. 217. -Review of Leila Sebbar's Parle mon fils, parle à ta mère in Al-Raida (Vol. VII, No. 29), pp. 23-24. -Review of "Voix Maghrébines," RAL (Spring 1985, Vol. 16, No. 1), pp. 126-128. -Review of "Femmes de la Méditerranée," Peuples Méditerranéns, Al-Raida, (Vol. VII, Nos. 27-28), pp. 28-29. -Review of Kawsar ElBeheiry's L'influence de la littérature française sur le roman arabe in RAL (Spring 1982). -Review of Eustache Prudencio's Violence de la race in ABPR Book Review (Vo. VIII, No. I, 1982). -Review of Irène Monesi's La voie lactée in World Literature Today (Spring 1982). -Review of Fran Hosken's Hosken Report: Genital and Sexual Mutilation of Females in Breff (No. 19, Oct. 81). -Review of Patrice Etoundi-M'Balla's Lettre ouverte à soeur Marie-Pierre in ABPR Book Reviews. (Vol. VII. No. 1, 1980). -Review of Baba Moustapha's Le Maître des Djinns in ABPR Book Reviews. (Vol. V, No. 3, July 1979) p. 17. -Review of Renaud-Vernet's Xannt in World Litrature Today. (Summer 1980). -Review of Makhily Gassama's Kuma: Interrogation sur la littérature nègre de langue française in ABPR Book Reviews. (Vol. V, No. 4, 1979). -Review of Mohammed Dib's Omneros in World Literature Today. (Summer 1979) -Review of Emmanual Hansen's Frantz Fanon: Social and Political Thought in African Literature. (Fall 1978, Vol. 9, No. 2) pp.308-310. -Review of Yves Velan's Soft Goulag in World Literature Today. (Summer 1978, Vol. 52, No. 3) p. 431. -Review of Weksler and Guedj's Quand les femmes se disent in French Review (Feb. 1977, Vol. 50, No. 3) p. 515. -Review of Andrée Chédid's Fraternité de la parole in World Literature Today. (Winter 1977, Vol. 51, No. 1) p. 57. -Review of Chantal Chawaf's Blé de semences in World Literature Today. (Summer 1977, Vol. 51, No. 3) p. 413. -Review of Rachid Boudjedra's Topographie Idéale pour une agression caractérisée in Books Abroad. (Summer 1976, Vol. 50, No. 3) p. 704. -Review of Tikku's Nineteen and Ten: Can is a Feeling in Books Abroad. (Spring 1976, Vol. 50, No. 2) p. 467. -Review of Katz' and Milton's Women of the Third World in Books Abroad. (Spring 1976, Vol. 50, No. 2) p. 483. -Review of n'Aït Attik's Songs of Mririda in Books Abroad. (Autumn 1975, Vol. 49, No. 4) p. 837. -Review of Manceaux's Les femmes de Gennevilliers in French Review. (April 1976, Vol. 49, No. 5) pp, 810-811. -Review of Saher's Littérature libanaise de langue française in French Review. (Feb. 1976, Vol. 49, No. 3) p. 437.

10. Papers and/or Lectures Given (date and organization) April 10 “Writing, Language, Exile and Dialogue in Lebanese Women Writers: Lebanese Literature in the Country of Immigration,” The Lebanese National Commission for Unesco. Beirut : Bristol Hotel. Mar 10 “Je veux vivre et d’autres chants,” Femmes comme Falestine : Génération Palestine, la CCIPPP, FTCR, L’ATMF, ZEMBRA, La librairie Envie de Lire, Arts et Cultures des Deux Rives, RISOM , l’UTAC. Paris : Association rue des Boulets. Jan 10 “La ville de Beyrouth accompagnée d’un chant,” Métropolis, Patropolis, Ivresses et Déambulations des Filles et des Fils. Journée d’études organisées par l’association Gradiva. Créations au feminin. Paris : Cité Universitaire. Nov 09 “Violence and Globalization : Women Seeking Freedom in the War Zones, » Islamic World Lecture Series, Center for Middle East Studies, and Women and Gender in Global Perspective, Urbana Free Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “S’écrire: Des Femmes Francophones Méditerranéennes”, University of Illinois in Chicago. Participating in classes and several lectures at Lake Forest College. Oct 09 « L’excision et le travail de la douleur, » et « Beyrouth : Des mots entre les maux, » 16ème Salon du Livre Francophone, BIEL, La Mission Culturelle Française et la Librairie Le Point, Beyrouth, Liban. July 09 « Femmes cherchent liberté en zones de guerre, » avec signature du dernier recueil de nouvelles à la Libraire Violette, Paris 11ème. June 09 « S’(écrire) : Des femmes francophones méditerranéennes, » Femmes et Savoir, 4ème édition du Forum International Femmes Méditerranéennes, Fès, Morocco. Apr 09 “Beyrouth, je t’aime,” Lectures Multiples de la Ville de Beyrouth, Université Libanaise, Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines, Beirut, Lebanon.

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« Des femmes recherchent liberté et paix en zone de guerre, » Sorbonne, Paris, France. Keynote Address: “War and Cancer in Light of Gender,” Zarda Interdisciplinary Conference, Sacred and Profane Myths, a tribute to Mahmoud Darwish, The Society of Ibn Khaldoun, Birmingham, Alabama. “S’(écrire): des femmes francophones libanaises,” Alliance Française and Foreign Languages, The University of Alabama at Birmingham. « Creative Gender and Postcolonial Realities: Debates on Excision,” Creativity and Dissidence Conference in Honor of Nawal el Saadawi, Spelman’s College, Atlanta, Georgia. Jan 09 « Femmes Mondialisation et Migration, » Le Forum Mondial sur Migration et Mondialisation, Fondation Esprit de Fès et Le Centre Sud Nord, Palais des Congrès, Fès, Maroc. Nov 08 “Errance et enracinement dans Bagdad et La dernière des croisés: femmes et guerre, » Ezza Agha Malak : Le pays et l’ailleurs, voyage et narration, Colloque organisé par le CRLV Université Paris IV-Sorbonne. “Writing One’s Life in Arab Francophone Women”, Migrant Writing And Representations of Homeland, University of Wisonsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin. “Voies/voix de femmes en zone de guerre, » débat avec Claudine Rulleau sur « Les femmes, la Oct 08 Méditerranée et la globalisation : avancées et reculs », pour le 2008 Salon du Livre Francophone de Beyrouth au Biel, Beyrouth, Liban. “Issues of immigration/integration, discussion of ‘Femme vivante’ and teaching a song in Arabic” plus 7 classes at Lake Forest College. Aug 08 Leading workshop on “Sexuality and War” for the Coalition for Sexual and Bodily Rights in Muslim Societies, CSBR Institute on Health and Rights, Sisters in Islam, Aug 16-23, Cyberjaya, KL, Malaysia. May 08 “Cancer Speaks in War Language”, “Songs for Birgit,” IMPLAN 2008: The Implications of Language for Peace and Development Conference, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norwegia. April 08 A special session at the University of IL bookstore, “Author’s corner,” on Evelyne Accad’s writing, with participation by the author, Nov 07 “From Bombs to Breast Cancer: The Intellectual in Action,” “Songs to close the Symposium”, Pen and Protest: Intellect and Action, A Symposium in Honour of Berenice A. Carroll, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana. « The Wounded Breast : A Patient’s Cancer Journey,” at The Medical Center Hour Jordan Conference Oct 07 Auditorium; “Sexuality, War, and Literature in Lebanon,” at The Kaleidoscope Center Newcomb Hall. Plus two classes and interviews at The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. June 07 « Oum Achraf entre mythe, rêve et réalité » Intermède poétique et musical, Figures féminines mythiques d’hier et d’aujourd’hui, Colloque de Traverses – Gradiva (Université Paris 8) Paris, France. May 07 “Discrimination and Tolerance in Lebanon,” Discrimination and Tolerance in the Middle East, Lebanese American University and the Orient Institute, Beirut, Lebanon. April 07 « Comment Parler de Toi Liban? Identité Plurielle et Complémentarité »,Université de Balamand Colloque "Francophonie: conflit ou complémentarité identitaire", Balamand, Lebanon. Mar 09

COALITION FOR SEXUAL AND BODILY RIGHTS IN MUSLIM SOCIETIES STRATEGIC PLANNING MEETING, Istanbul, Turkey.

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“Le choix de partir ou celui de rester, et écrire,” “Mots et chants pour dire la douleur et la colère,” D’Encre et d’Exil: Sixièmes Rencontres Internationales des Ecrivains de l’Exil: Le Liban entre rêve et cauchemar, Centre Pompidou, Paris. “Lebanon Burning!!! A Personal Experience,” Lake Forest College and CLC Illinois. "Women and War," The University of Minnesota, Moris. “Poèmes, musique et introduction,” Orphée chante les jardins du Liban: Amour et Guerre, en hommage aux deux écrivaindes francolibanaises, Accad et Agha Malak. Université Libanaise. “L’engagement chez Noureddine Aba,” Hommage à Noureddine Aba: L’Homme et son œuvre, Centre Culturel Algérien, Paris. « Musique Écriture » (lecture performance) “Les sujets féminins et leurs représentations “ Colloque International de Traverses, Journée du 9 juin à l’Université de Paris 8, amphi X. “Writing and Music,” The seventh International Conference of the Arab Women’s Solidarity Association (AWSA) Creativity , Dissidence and Women Cairo Greater Library, 15 Mohamed Mazhar street, Zamalek, Cairo, Egypt. “Evelyne Accad chante ses poèmes,” Le Cercle des Poètes Francophones Présente Un RécitalConcert Une Gerbe de poèmes sur la tombe de Rafik Al- Hariri, centre de Beyrouth, Liban. “From Bombs to Breast Cancer: The Politics of Sexuality for Arab Women,” Keynote address, Women’s Voices from the Middle East, Fourth annual symposium on Diaspora, Islam and Gender MCRI Project, and

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“The Role of Women in the Contemporary Arabic Fiction of the West (Maghrib) and the East (Mashriq), York University, Toronto. “Music Through the Storm: Women, War, Music and Identity,” Performance and Roundtable discussion for a music festival at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. “L’engagement dans l’écriture de Noureddine Aba,” Colloque International sur l’Œuvre de Noureddine Aba, Saïda, Algeria. “Female Genital Mutilation and its Implications for Women,” Keynote Address, Hood College, Fredericks, DC., “Alternative Thoughts and New Perspectives on Globalization: Women’s Voices, Human Rights, Gender Discrimination, Environment and Health,” “The Healing Power of the Spoken and Written Words.” Voices Against Oppression, Millikin University, Decatur.. “Honor Related Violence and Patriarchy,” Keynote address, “Strategies to Combat HRV in Europe,” and “Redefining HRV in Europe: Future Perspectives,” for HRV within a Global Perspective, Kvinnoforum, Sweden., “Les crimes d’honneur: Situation de la femme au Moyen-Orient… et ailleurs,” Forum francosuédois, Eglise Réformée de Stockholm, Suède. “Gender, Literature and Postcolonial Realities,” ICLA, HongKong., “La relation de Vénus Khoury-Ghata à l’écriture,” Colloque international de Gourdon, Lot: Des femmes francophones et de l’écriture Le bassin méditerranéen “From Bombs to Breast Cancer: Women’s Narratives in the Middle East,” The Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. “September 11 and Its Implications for Women,” “Songs in French and Arabic,” Women’s Voices 2003/Voices from the Middle East, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. “Journeys through Cancer,” “Wounding Words,” Millikin University, Decatur, Illinois. “Violence Against Nature/Woman,” Violence in the Middle East,” Lebanese American University, Beirut.. “Read Around the World: Wounding Words,” WM Rainey Harper College, Illinois. “From Bombs to Breast Cancer: Women and War Stories,” “Journal Writing with students of French,” University of Northern Iowa. “Class on Women and Islam,” “From Bombs to Breast Cancer,” Drake University, Iowa. “Sexuality and War in the Aftermath of September Eleven,” as well as participation in the panel discussions and class visitation for the Fall Symposium on “Religion and Conflict in a Global Society” at the Center for Free Inquiry at Hanover College in Indiana. Talk and performance of several original works at the Chicago Humanities Festival XIII. Theme of the festival is "Brains & Beauty." Part of Series 9: "In the Spotlight," scheduled in the Claudia Cassidy Theater, Chicago Cultural. Aired on Artbeat Channel 11, Fr. 20 Dec. 10pm and Sunday 22 Dec. 11pm. “Overview of Western and Eastern Feminist Theory," “Talk and reading from two works: ‘Wounding Words: A Woman’s Journal in Tunisia’ and ‘The Excised’,” and “Individual Rebellion and the Context of Culture: Arab Women Writers,” as well as participated in the panel discussions for the “Women, Culture and Society in the Middle East: Feminist Struggle and Quest for Space,” seminar, at the Kvinnoforum in Stockholm, Sweden. “Multi-Disciplinary Approaches to cancer,” Gilda’s Club in Chicago on the occasion of Breast Cancer Awareness month. “September Eleven and Its Implications for Arab Women,” for the WGGP Symposium 2002: “Gender and Transnational Networks,” at the University of Illinois. “Confront Violence Against Women,” “Breast Cancer Awareness,” “Politics and Women in the Middle east,” “Civil War in Lebanon during the 80’s,” “Environmental Pollution Effects on Breast Cancer,” “Poetry and guitar performance on the themes from women friendships to the ethics of war,” The College of Lake County, Illinois. "The Politics of Sexuality in the Lebanese War Novels,” WOMEN IN THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY conference, a Fulbright-Sponsored Conference Bridging Academia and Public Policy at the Bogazici University - Istanbul, Turkey (Sept. 18-21). Keynote address for the Fifth Annual International Conference of the Department of English Literature and Humanities at the Eastern Mediterranean University on May 2-3 in Cyprus. The topic was: "Words, Wars, Worlds: The Polemics of Narration." "Andrée Chedid : Amour, Vision et Réconciliation," for the Colloque International de Villetaneuse on ANDREE CHEDID : RACINES ET LIBERTE, in Paris France (May 27). "Femmes dans l'écriture d'Andrée Chedid," for the COLLOQUE EN HOMMAGE A ANDREE CHEDID: AUX FRONTIERES DES DEUX GENRES, at the Université Libanaise, Beirut, Lebanon (May 10-12).

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April 02 “Discussion (with Amel ben Aba) of excerpts from Wounding Words: A Woman’s Journal in Tunisia,” “Presentation, singing and signing of The Wounded Breast: Intimate Journeys Through Cancer,” Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon. March 02 “The Wounded Breast: Multidisciplinary Views on Cancer,” Center for Behavioral Research, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon. Nov. 01 “Multi-Cultural Perspectives on Cancer: Tunisia, Lebanon and the West,” Center for African St., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. “Sexuality and War: Musical Presentation,” Expressions of Arab Women in Struggle, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. “Reading and Book Signing: The Wounded Breast: Intimate journeys Through Cancer,” Illini Union Bookstore Authors Corner and interview on the WILL (the University radio), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. “Presentation and book signing of France/Lebanon Award winning book on cancer,” Arab Heritage Month, Women’s Studies, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois. “Presentation and book signing of The Wounded Breast: Intimate Journeys Through Cancer,” Women and Children First Bookstore, Chicago, Illinois. “Sexuality, War and the Middle east,” Teach-In, University of Illinois, Springfield. “Cancer: East and West,” Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern St. and ACDIS, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Oct. 01 “Female Genital Mutilation: Discourses, Debates and Feminist Commitment” for the “Women, Sexuality and Social Change in the Middle East and the Mediterranean,” organized by Women for Women’s Rights/New Ways in Istanbul, Turkey. “Gender and Postcolonial Realities,” University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia. Served on the Neustadt Jury for World Literature Today at the University of Oklahoma to choose the 2002 Neustadt laureate for the International Prize in Literature, and gave presentations of her book on cancer for various activities on campus and for the Neustadt events. “My experience with cancer,” Breast Cancer Awareness Brunch, YWCA, Urbana. “The Wounded Breast: Presentation and Musical Performance,” Millikin University, Decatur, Illinois. June 01 “La Parole dans le monde méditerranéen,” Rassemblement Protestant de France, Valabre, France. “Lecture de Chants et de Poèmes,” Sixième Rencontre Internationale de Poésie Féminine Contemporaine de Langue Française, Les Messagères du Poème, Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris, France. May 01 “But Who Would Want to Live Anywhere Else?: A Patient Questions Cancer,” Gilford Doxsee Lecture, African Lecture Series keynote, and visited classes, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. Apr. 01 “The Construction of Female Genital Mutilation,” Center for Advanced Studies, University of Illinois, “Writing One’s Life in Francophone Arab Women,” and “Screening of the play Les Filles de Taher Haddad, based on Accad’s novel Blessures des mots: Journal de Tunisie, Women and Francophony colloquium, University of Illinois, French Department, Urbana-Champaign. Mar 01 Moderator panel on “Imaginary Cities,” Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities Third Annual Conference, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Keynote at the Seventh Annual Carolina Conference on Romance Liiteratures, Chapel Hill, NC. Round Table Discussion: Women and the States of the Fields, Chapel Hill, NC. Dec.00 “Débat autour du cancer,” Association FaireFace, Beirut, Lebanon. Nov.00 “Vivre en cancer,” Salon du Livre “Lire en Français et en Musique 2000,” Beirut, Lebanon. May 00 "Women and Identity in the Arab World," invited as featured Francophone writer for the CIEF (Congrès International d'Etudes Francophones), where the play taken from my novel Wounding Words was performed with my participation, Sousse, Tunisia. Apr. 00 "Beyond Breast-Beating," University of Georgia," Athens, Georgia. Mar. 00 "Writing to explore (W)human experience," Millikin University, Decatur, Illinois. Jan. 99 Organized a panel on "Simone de Beauvoir in the Mashrek and Maghreb," for the Fiftieth Anniversary of The Second Sex, at the Sorbonne, Paris, France. A play "Les filles de Tahar Haddad et de Simone de Beauvoir," taken from one of my novels was performed with my participation. Jan. 98 "Littérature libanaise," rencontre des collégiens et lycéens de Bethoncourt, Montbéliard, Audincourt, Pays de Montbéliard, France. Dec. 97 Reading/Performance of Wounding Words: A Woman's Journal in Tunisia at the Elliott Bay Book Company and presentation of the Women's movement in Tunisia with Prof. Cynthia Hahn at the University of Seattle, Seattle, Washington. "Bursting the Frontiers: My Relationship to Writing," for Cultural Diversity at Chapel Hill; "Transnational Dimensions of Violence and Gender," for Asian and African Lang.

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& Lit., Romance Studies and Mediterranean Studies at Duke University; "Gender and War," for International Studies at Duke University; and Reading/Performance at the Gothic Bookshop. Participant in the Literary Arts, Pan African Art and Artists, Center for African Studies, Fall '97, University of Illinois, Champ-Urbana. Reading/Performance of Wounding Words: A Woman's Journal in Tunisia as well as a presentation of the Women's movement in Tunisia with Prof. Cynthia Hahn at Northern Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa University in Ames, and Grinnell College, all in Iowa. "The role of Arab women in contemporary Fiction: Sexuality and War," Orient- Institut, Beirut, Lebanon. Table ronde autour de l'œuvre d'Evelyne Accad, Département de la Faculté des Lettres de l'Université Libanaise, Beirut, Lebanon. "'The Subaltern Speaks!': Rêves, Tribulations et Espoirs de Umm Ashraf, USIA, Hammamet, Tunisia. "World Chaos," Lebanese American University. "Condition de la femme arabe, Techniques romanesques, Comparaison entre la femme arabe et américaine," Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon. "'La subalterne parle!': Rêves, tribulations, et espoirs de Umm Ashraf," French Forum, Univ of Illinois. "Presenting Wounding Words," Illini Union Bookstore, University of Illinois, Urbana. "Participation in Michèle Blondel's Artistic Performance," Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois. "Writing to Explore (W)Human Experience," "Population, Women and Modernity in Egypt: The Dreams of Cairo's Popular Classes," (with Paul Vieille) "Chanter son Pays," University of Toledo, Ohio. "Keynote Address on Censorship: Writing to Explore (W)Human Experience," "Lecture et Chant," University of Colorado, Boulder. "Performance and book signing," La Dolce Vita, Colorado Springs. "Breast Cancer: A Personal Testimony," Women's History Month, University of Illinois, Champaign. "Breast Cancer," Medicine and Society, Panel on Death and Dying, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois. "Les filles de Taher Haddad," theater adaptation of novel, Medina, Tunisia. "La longue marche des romancières du Machrek et du Maghreb," CEMAT (Center for Maghribi Studies in Tunis), Médina, Tunisia. "A Survey of Feminist Theory," "My Relationship to Writing," and "Sexuality and War." The Center for Behavioral Research, American University in Beirut. "Tanitez Moi," IWSAW (Institute for Women's Studies in the Arab World) Lebanese American University. "Breast Cancer: A Personal Testimony," IWSAW (Institute for Women's Studies in the Arab World) Lebanese American University. "Voices by Water, A Reading of My Works," The Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle, Washington. "Women's Issues Around the World," University of Illinois Honor's Society, The Phi Fives of Phi Kappa Phi, Urbana, Illinois. "The Tribulations, Dreams and Hopes of Umm Ashraf," (with Paul Vieille) "Reading and Discussion of my Work," University of South Alabama, Mobile. "Workshop on Identity and Representation," Feminist Theory Workshop, University of Illinois, Urbana. "Reading from my work," Jane Adams BookShop, Champaign, Illinois. "Singing and Reading Session," American University of Beirut, Beirut. "Overview of Western and Eastern Feminist Theory," Beirut University College, Beirut, Lebanon. "Talk and Reading Excerpts from my work," Beirut University College, Beirut, Lebanon. "Mon rapport à l'écriture," Club Culturel Libanais, Paris, France. "Débat sur Des femmes, des hommes et la guerre," Association Femmes et Changements, Fondation Progrès de l'Homme, Paris. "Reading and Singing from Sexuality and War and L'excisée," Blue Rock Books, Urbana, Illinois "Performance," and "Talk on War and Sexuality," Darmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. "The Politics of Sexuality in the Lebanese War Novels," Middle East Studies Association meeting, Duke University, Durham, N. C. "Yugoslave Women: Working Towards a Cease Fire and as Targeted Victims," Channing Murray Foundation, Urbana, Illinois. "Gender, Sexuality and Violence: The Israëli-Palestinian Conflict," Channing Murray Foundation, Urbana. "Présentation de Blessures des Mots," Librairie Mille Feuilles, LaMarsa, Tunisia. "Transnational Aspects of Violence, War and Gender," Rockefeller Center, Bellagio, Italy. "Readings from L'Excisée and Coquelicot," "Mon rapport à l'écriture," "Table Ronde des Ecrivains," Continental, Latin American and Francophone Women Writers, (invited as on of the featured women writers), The Wichita State University, Wichita, Ka. "From Setting to Rising Sun: Arab Women's Writings," Program in South and West Asian Studies, University of Illinois, Champaign.

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"Debates and Discourses on Excision," Feminist Scholarship Seminars, Women's Studies, Univ of Illi. "Traffic in 'The Family': Global Issues," Feminist Theory Workshop, University of Illinois, Urbana. "War and Sexuality in Lebanon," BUC, Byblos Campus, Blat, Lebanon. "Gender, War and Lebanese Literature," Beirut University College. "World Chaos and the Popular Classes," Ford Foundation, Ibn Khaldoun Center, Population Council, Cairo, Egypt. "Miroir d'une société éclatée," "Détruire la ville et le sentiment d'impasse," Cédèj (French Scientific Research Center), Cairo, Egypt. "Bursting the Frontiers: A Personal Journey through Literature," African Studies Fall Lecture Series, University of Illinois, Champ. "Regards sur la France des Années 1980, le roman," Table Ronde des Ecrivains, Ambassade de France, Washington D.C. "Women and War on Middle Eastern Literature," Keynote Address for the Middle East Symposium, Washington College, Chestertown, Mar. "L'Ecriture Eclatement des Frontières," International Festival of Tabarka, Tabarka, Tunisia. "Le retour et l'exil: des mélanges créateurs, forces innovatrices," Journées de la Poésie: Place de la Poésie dans nos Sociétés Contemporaines, Rodèz, France. "Itinéraire personnel en Tunisie," AATF Journées Africaines, Chicago. "Sexuality, Women and War," Villanova College, Pennsylvania. "Contemporary Women Writers of the Mashriq and the Maghrib," Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. "Discussion de L'Excisée et Coquelicot," Lake Forest College, Illinois. "International Feminism and the Gulf War," "Feminism and Multiculturalism in the Middle East," "Evening Performance: Songs of Lebanon," Feminism and Multiculturalism Second Annual Purdue Women's Studies Symposium, Purdue University, LaFayette, Indiana. "Sexuality, War and Writing in the Middle East," The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. "Understanding the Middle East: Cultural Dynamics," World Forum, University of Illinois, Champaign. "Window on the World," WEFT Radio, Champaign. "Chaos Theory and Human Society," Focus 580, WILL, Univ. of Ill. "Searching for Solutions," Peace, Justice and Human Rights in the Middle East, Friday Forum Series, Univ. YMCA, Champaign, Ill. "A Celebration of the Middle Eastern Women," George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA. "Women and the Militias in Lebanon," Women and War," Women's Studies, University of Illinois. "Unveiling Sexuality in War through the Literature of the Middle East," for the "Race, Gender and Ethnicity Series," Women's Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. “Women in the Arab World,” “The Politics of Sexuality,” Penn State University. "Coquelicot du massacre," Lake Forest College, Illinois, "Woman in War," panel and concert: Learning & Unlearning Feminism in the Academy, Purdue University, LaFayette, Indiana. "A Celebration of the Middle Eastern Women: Prose, Poetry and Song," "Third World In Global Perspectives," Iowa State University “Sexuality, War and Literature,” Center for African Studies, U of I. “Unveiling Sexuality in War,” Duke University, North Carolina., “Literary Masks of the Middle East,” Rochester University. “Sexuality & War in Arabic Literature,” MESA, San Antonio., Paticipant in a “Panel Discussion on International Feminism,” Women’s Studies Program, University of Illinois. “Eco-Feminism,” Midwest-Radical Scholars & Activities Conference, Chicago, Layola University. "Un autre visage du Liban," table ronde à La Maison des Ecrivains, Paris, France. "Sexualité, guerre, politique et littérature libanaise," Club Taher Haddad, Tunis, Tunisia. "Towards a Third World Feminism: Conflict and Contradictions for Contemporary Women," ALA, Madison, Wisconsin. "Les femmes démasquent la guerre dévoile les hommes," French Forum Lecture, Univ. of Ill., Champaign. Chaired panel on "The Fictional Worlds of Modern Arabic Literature," MESA/AMEWS, Toronto. "L'enseignement de la littérature africaine francophone,"AATF, 62nd Annual Meeting, Paris, France. "Romancières libanaises," Radio France Internationale, Paris. "Les enfants libanais," Secours Catholique, Paris, France. "Discussion of L'Excisée," and "A bilingual reading and performance on the situation of Arab women and the Lebanese Civil War," reading/concert, Duke University, Durham,NC "Original work reading and singing," Women's Studies Program, U of I. "Improving the Human Condition: Women, Peace and Development," Chair, Women and Peace Conference, University of Illinois. "Women Unmask War/War Unveils Men: Sexuality, War and Liberation in the Middle East," Feminist Scholarship Seminar, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.

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"Sexuality, War, Literature and the Exploitation of Women in Lebanon," The Coalition on Traffiking in Women International, NY. "Education Towards the Year 2000: Traditional Vs. Feminist Pedagogy in the Mediterranean," KEGME Spetses, Greece. "Lecture de textes," La Maison des Ecrivains, Paris, France., "Un Ecrivain, un pays: cheminement d'une femme libanaise," Fabrique Renault, Paris, France., "Coquelicot du massacre," Fête de la Musique, Paris. "Livres du Liban," Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France. "Sexualité, guerre et littérature au Moyen-Orient," Université de Grenoble III, Grenoble, France. "Sexualité, guerre et romans de la guerre au Liban," Université de Rennes, Rennes, France. "Freedom and the Social Context," and "Sexuality, War and Literature in the Middle East," Brandeis University, Waltham. "Guerre et sexualité dans les romans de la guerre du Liban," Journées Jacqueline Arnaud, Université ParisNord,Villetaneuse. "Aperçu historique de la littérature féminine au Maghreb et au Machrek," "Le rôle de la femme chez les écrivains maghrébins hommes et femmes." Stage de Recherche en Littérature maghrébine de Langue Française,Université de Lyon, France. "Freedom and the Social Context: Arab Women's Special Contribution to Literature," Association for Women in Developt,Washington, D.C. Chair panel on "Feminist Writing in a Developing World," African Litrature Association, Cornell, Ithaca. "Women and Violence," Keynote Address College of St.CatherineWomen's Week, St. Paul, Minnesota. "Sexuality and Sexual Politics: Contradictions for Contemporary Women," College of William and Mary, Kenan address, Williamsburg, Virginia. "The War in Lebanon," Rotary Club, Urbana-Champaign. "Arab Nationalism and Feminist Consciousness in the North African Novels," MESA/AMEWS, Boston. "A Feminist Perspective on the War in Lebanon," Feminist Scholarship Seminar, Women's Studies Program, U of I. "Discussion of L'Excisée," Indiana University, Bloomington "Freedom and the Social Context: Arab Women's Special Contribution to Literature," Building Strategies for Mediterranean Women," Women's Studies Program, Spetses, Greece. Chair, panel on "Feminist Theory and African Literature," African Literature Association, East Lansing, Michigan. "Individual Rebellion and the Context of Culture," Women and Society, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. "The Tunisian Woman," "Women and War," and "Feminist Perspective on the War in Lebanon," Iowa University, Iowa. "Women and War," YMCA, University of Illinois. Chair, panel on "Tayeb Salih," African Studies Association, New Orleans. "Women in Tunisia: a slide show." African Studies Program.University Chaired panel on "Women's Perception of Their Role as Paid Workers" and discussant for panel on "Women's Employment and the Law," Institute for Women's Studies in the Arab World. Nicosia, Cyprus. "Contemporary Feminist Thinking," Club Taher Hadad. Tunis, Tunisia. "Ecrire, c'est transmettre l'expérience humaine pour transformer la société," Club Taher Haddad. International Women's Day, Tunis, Tunisia. "Women's Work and Women's Associations in Africa: a slide show." University of Illinois, Urbana. "The Long Road to Maturity: Arab Women Novelists," Haigazian College, Beirut, Lebanon. "Individual Rebellion and the Context of Culture: Arab Women Novelists," American University of Beirut. "Arab Women in Literature," Ahfad College, Sudan. Chair, panel on "Women and Folklore," and paper on "Chantal Chawaf and Feminist Language," AATF. Lille, France. "Bouches voilées, mains qui écrivent," Third Annual Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literature, University of Cincinnati. "Religious and Cultural Practices Affecting Women," "Politics of Sexuality," and chaired panel on "Women and Language: In our Own Words." Common Differences: Third World Women and Feminist Perspectives, University of Illinois. "Arab Women Novelists," and concert of songs on the war in Lebanon and the condition of women, Middle Eastern Center of the University of Chicago. Participant in "Africa: A New Look," Continuing Education and Public Service, University of Illinois. "Individual Rebellion and the Context of Culture: Arab Women Writers," Middle Eastern Studies Program, Indiana University. Bloomington, IN

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June 82 Talk on Arab Women to immigrant students at the University of Paris- Nord, Paris, France. April 82 "Arab Women Novelists of French and Arabic Expression," lecture and concert. Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, Office of International Programs, George Mason University. Oct. 80 "African Women Writers of Arabic Expression" and "The Bird and the Tree in Andrée Chédid's Work," and chaired the panel on "African Literature of Arabic Expression." African Studie Association. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. June 80 “Stages in Development of Arab Women Writers." 20th Century Women Writers, SUNY Brockport, New York. May 80 "Social Realities and Fictional Solutions for Arab Women." National Women's Studies Association. Bloomington, Indiana. April 80 "The Role of Women in Tayeb and Ghalláb." African Literature Association. Gainesville, Florida. Mar 80 "A Trip to the Arab Gulf." Y.W.C.A. Urbana, Illinois. Feb. 80 "Freedom and Sophistry: Women in the Works of Arab Male Writers." Third World Study Group, University of Illinois. Nov 78 "Rising Feminist Consciousness Among Arab Women Novelists." Humanities and English Department, American University of Beirut. Social Realities and Fictional Solutions for Arab Women," Institute for Women Studies in the Arab World. Beirut University College. Beirut, Lebanon. Dec. 77 "Arab Women novelists" for the Modern Language Association, Chicago. Nov 77 Chaired the panel on "Role of Women in North African Literature" for the African Studies Association. Houston, Texas. "Andrée Chédid: A Reflection of her Egyptian Cultural Heritage" for the Midwestern Modern Language Oct 77 Association, Chicago. Mar 77 Chaired the panel on "Role of Women in African Literature" for the African Literature Association. Madison, Wisconsin. Apr.77 "Women in conflict: a comparative study of Debèche and Taos-Amrouche" North East Conference of the M.L.A. Pittsburgh. Nov. 76 "Traditional versus modern values in the North African novels written by women." African Studies Conference, Boston, MA. June 76 "20th Century Arab Women Writers and Novelists." SUNY grant for the improvement of the undergraduate instruction. Brockport, New York. Mar. 76 "The Long March of the Heroines of the Contemporary Novels of the Mashreq and the Maghreb," African Literature Conference, Northwestern University. Evanston, Ill. Feb. 76 "In Memory of My Arab Grandmother: Twentieth Century Literature Conference. Louisville, Kentucky. Nov 75 "Themes of Sexual Repression in North African Novelists." African Studies Conference, California. Oct 75 "Role of Women in Arabic Literature." A.A.U.G., Chicago. April 75 "New Feminist Consciousness among Arab Women Novelists." Midwest Regional Women's Conference. Bloomington, Indiana.

11. General a. Languages: French, Arabic, English and Italian. b. Travels: Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Jordan, Egypt, Sudan, Iraq, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, India, Qatar, Malaysia, Singapore, Pakistan, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Germany, England, Ireland, Spain, Poland, Hungary, Canada, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. c. Interests: Creative Writing: prose and poetry, African and Near Eastern literatures, Oppressed groups in literature and literature related to society and politics. Song writing and performing of various concerts in the U.S. and abroad. Women in literature, film and society, French existentialism, civilization and women writers in general. Women and war, feminism and pacifism. Women and violence. World Chaos and the Imaginary. Cross-cultural study of cancer and other twentieth-century diseases related to the environment, in medicine, biology, society and literature. d. On Evelyne Accad:

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- The Critical and Creative Writings of Evelyne Accad: An International Colloquium June 16-18, 2004 in Paris, France. (Sponsored by the Alumni of the French Department of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). - Two volumes with the proceedings from the conference: - Evelyne Accad: Explorations. (ed. Deirdre Bucher Heistad) Paris: L’Harmattan, 2004 - On Evelyne Accad: Essays in Literature, Feminism, and Cultural Studies (ed. Cheryl Toman). Summa Press, 2007

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