Iman Humaydan is the author of Songs for Darkness, an epic novel that intertwines a narration focused on four generations of Lebanese women’s lives with the major historical and political events of the twentieth century from the eve of World War I to the 1982 Lebanon War. Replacing grand historical narratives told by men, Songs for Darkness, offers us a women-centered view of 20th-century Lebanon, through their stories, experiences, and voices. The novel has been long-listed for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction.
Event funded by the Mahindra Re-thinking Translation Seminar and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
Founded as a graduate program in 1904 and joining with the undergraduate Literature Concentration in 2007, Harvard’s Department of Comparative Literature operates at the crossroads of multilingualism, literary study, and media history.
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