Knowledge Commons | Karim Mattar | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/kmattar/activity/ Activity feed for Karim Mattar. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:10:43 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 cd9c7b2234f90439c17ab554624a5112 Karim Mattar started the topic The right to education in the forum Commenting on Proposed Resolution 2025-1 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/commenting-on-proposed-resolution-2025-1/forum/topic/the-right-to-education/ Sat, 14 Sep 2024 17:03:42 -0400 In the classroom, I often say to my students “read everything and make up your own minds.”  What we read today regarding Israel’s actions in Gaza and the West Bank indicates a pattern, a system of escalating daily gross violations of human rights, international law, and basic decency.  Particularly urgent for this organization to be cogniza…[Read more]

]]> d36aaeea9a9e9dc5aa87f9d31b8a5d0c Karim Mattar started the topic CLCS Global Arab and Arab American Panels at MLA 2020 in the discussion CLCS Global Arab and Arab American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-arab-and-arab-american/forum/topic/clcs-global-arab-and-arab-american-panels-at-mla-2020/ Tue, 26 Feb 2019 22:26:51 -0500 Dear Friends,

We write to invite submissions for one or both of the CLCS Global Arab and Arab American Panels at MLA 2020:

  • Poetics and Politics of Defeat: Reconfiguring the Human after the Arab Spring. This panel reconsiders representations of the human / inhuman / posthuman in relation to the Arab Spring and its aftermath. Papers welcome on…

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]]> 6a85ec7340dca0238a2699aaaa0e90f5 Karim Mattar started the topic Candidate Statement - Exec Committee, Global Arab and Arab American Forum in the discussion Global Arab and Arab American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-arab-and-arab-american/forum/topic/candidate-statement-exec-committee-global-arab-and-arab-american-forum/ Wed, 28 Oct 2015 20:27:09 -0400 Hello,

 

I'm Karim Mattar, and am writing in support of my nomination for the Global Arab and Arab American Executive Committee for the 2016-2021 term.  I am an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder.  I received my DPhil in English from the University of Oxford (2013), after earning degrees at UCL (BA, 2003), War…[Read more]

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