http://patell.org/2009/10/sharjah/ Cyrus R. K. Patell's Website Thu, 15 Dec 2011 06:33:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://patell.org/2009/10/sharjah/comment-page-1/#comment-29 zack Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:41:27 +0000 http://patell.org/wordpress/?p=112#comment-29 Are you familiar with Timothy Marr's Cultural Roots of American Islamicism? The study was inspired by Moby-Dick (and indeed has a chapter devoted to Melville), as Marr was teaching the text to students in Pakistan a while back and its cosmopolitan influences became readily apparent to him. Also, have you read either Reading Lolita in Tehran or the reaction book, Jasmine? <a href="http://www.thevalve.org/go/valve/article/reading_azar_nafisi/" rel="nofollow">http://www.thevalve.org/go/valve/article/reading_azar_nafisi/</a> I'd be interested in your thoughts on both. And I didn't fully understand from the first post: will you eventually move to Abu Dhabi to teach, or are you at the very least "simply" working on the behind-the-scenes committee work? Word, The nerdy friend of a former student of yours Are you familiar with Timothy Marr’s Cultural Roots of American Islamicism? The study was inspired by Moby-Dick (and indeed has a chapter devoted to Melville), as Marr was teaching the text to students in Pakistan a while back and its cosmopolitan influences became readily apparent to him.
Also, have you read either Reading Lolita in Tehran or the reaction book, Jasmine? http://www.thevalve.org/go/valve/article/reading_azar_nafisi/
I’d be interested in your thoughts on both.
And I didn’t fully understand from the first post: will you eventually move to Abu Dhabi to teach, or are you at the very least “simply” working on the behind-the-scenes committee work?
Word,
The nerdy friend of a former student of yours

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