Centre for Comparative Literature Public Lecture: Nizar Hermes
When and Where
Wednesday, May 01, 2024 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Room 315
Isabel Bader Theatre, 3rd floor (93 Charles Street West)
Speakers
Professor Nizar Hermes, Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages, University of Virginia
Description
"Let You Be an Olive Branch!” How the (hi)story of an Andalusian Muslim poet-diplomat at a ninth-century Viking court inspired a modern Iraqi poet-diplomat
You are cordially invited to a public lecture presented by the Centre for Comparative Literature, and co-sponsored by NMC’s Michael E. Marmura Lecture Series in Arabic Studies.