International Conference on Mohamed Choukri

Convener: Jonas Elbousty, Yale University
October 5 - 6, 2022

Humanities Quadrangle – Room 136
320 York Street, New Haven, CT 06511

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2022

9:35–9:50: Opening remarks: Jonas Elbousty

10:00–10:45: KEYNOTE LECTURE: “Moroccan Literary History and Mohamed Choukri”
Roger Allen, University of Pennsylvania

11:00–12:30: Panel 1: SITUATING CHOUKRI AND HIS WORK

Chair: Shawkat Toorawa, Yale University

“The Choukri Debates Reconsidered”
Brian Edwards, Tulane University

“Mohamed Choukri: Resisting Ideological Appropriation and the Poetics of Apostasy”
Natalie Khazaal, Georgia Institute of Technology

“Mohamed Choukri: Re-envisioning the Postcolonial”
Brahim El Guabli, Williams College

Respondent: Thomas Connolly, Yale University

2:00–3:30: Panel 2: READINGS OF THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL TRILOGY

Chair: Natalie Khazaal, Georgia Institute of Technology

“Negotiating Space: Reclaiming the Spatial Gender Boundaries of Tangier in Mohamed Choukri’s Novel Wujuh”
Mbarek Sryfi, University of Pennsylvania

“Sex Work was Hiring: Prostitution as Economic Critique in For Bread Alone and Mohamed Zafzaf’s The Woman and the Rose”
Ian Campbell, Georgia State University

“Intersectional Violence in Mohammed Choukri’s novel Streetwise”
Touria Khannous, Louisiana State University

Respondent: Sam Hodgkin, Yale University

3:45–5:00 Panel 3: REVISITING CHOUKRI, BOWLES, AND THE INFAMOUS TRANSLATION

Chair: Brian Edwards, Tulane University

Translating Mohamed Choukri: Between Manipulation and Rewriting”
Hanan Bennoudi, Ibn Zohr University

“Translation and Cultural Appropriation: Paul Bowles’s Translation of Choukri’s For Bread Alone”
Qussay M. Al-Attabi, Harvard University

Respondent: Jonas Elbousty, Yale University

5:05–6:30: Undergraduate Panel: HUNGER IN EDEN: MOHAMED CHOUKRI’S NARRATIVES

Chair: Qussay M. Al-Attabi, Harvard University

“Kafka, Choukri, and the Concept of The Father”
Mustafa Zewar, Yale University

“Ecstasy, Sex, and Imagination in Choukri’s Writings”
Amer Balabaki, Yale University

“Political Observations in Majnūn al-Ward”
Gall Sigler, Yale University

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2022

10:00–11:30: Panel 4: CHOUKRI’S IMAGINARY

Chair: Touria Khannous, Louisiana State University

“Brunch with Zailachi: Choukri’s Images of Consumption”
Samuel England, University of Wisconsin-Madison

“Mohamed Choukri’s Short Stories: Flower Crazy and The Tent”
Jonas Elbousty, Yale University

“Mohamed Choukri: A Rebellious Voice that Intersects with the Countercultural Writings of the Beat Generation”

Anouar El Younssi, Oxford College of Emory University

Respondent: Roger Allen, University of Pennsylvania

11:35–11:50: Concluding remarks: Jonas Elbousty