#  CMES: The Naksa Fifty Years Later: New Sources, Questions And Approaches To The ‘67 War - Workshop 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **March 30 - March 31, 2017** 

 04:00PM - 04:30PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Williams James Hall, Lecture Hall B1, Lower Level, 33 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA**  



 

 



 

[The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents a workshop](http://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/naksa-fifty-years-later-new-sources-questions-and-approaches-67-war)  
  
On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the June 1967 War, this workshop seeks to explore new approaches to understand and rethink this pivotal and transformative moment in the history of the modern Middle East. At stake is the search for new sources that can shed light on the war and its long term repercussions for Arab societies.

*Organized by:* **William Granara**, Professor of Arabic, Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies; and **Khaled Fahmy**, Shawwaf Visiting Professor in Modern Middle Eastern History; Professor of History, American University of Cairo

**Program** (*subject to change*)

**Thursday, March 30**

4:00 *Welcome*: **William Granara**, Professor of Arabic, Director, CMES  
*Introduction*: **Khaled Fahmy**, Shawwaf, Visiting Professor in Modern Middle Eastern History

4:15 - 6:15 Panel I: *Transformations in Literature*  
Chair: **Ilham Makdisi** (Northeastern U.)

**William Granara** (Harvard): *Rereading War\[s\] in the Land of Egypt*  
**Laila Parsons** (McGill): G*hassan Kanafani Between Literature and History*  
**Daniel Behar** (Harvard): *‘Thou shalt not join the Zealots;’ responses to the Six-Day War in Israeli literature*  
**Haci Osman Gunduz** (Harvard): *Nizar Qabbani: ‘A Poet Transformed Instantly’*

6:15 - 7:15 Keynote Address: **Elias Khoury**, Novelist, Lebanon

  
**Friday, March 31**

9:30 - 12:30 Panel II:  
Chair: **Roger Owen** (Harvard)

**Betty Anderson** (BU): *Student Mobilization after 1967*  
**Bassam Haddad** (George Mason): *Internecine Struggles and the 1967 War: The Syrian Case*  
**Sherene Seikaly** (UCSB): *The Politics of Hope: 1967 and Beyond*  
**Yoav di Capua** (U Texas Austin): *Toward an Intellectual History of 1967*

2:00 - 4:30 Panel III:  
Chair: **Sara Roy** (Harvard)

**Hazem Kandil** (Cambridge U UK): *Blood, Folly, and Sandcastles: June 1967*  
**Khaled Fahmy** (Harvard & AUC): *How do we know what we know about the June 1967 War? The case of the withdrawal order*

Closing Conversation: **Khaled Fahmy** and **Derek Penslar** (Harvard)

**Contact:** [Liz Flanagan](mailto:elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu)

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