Cairo to Host International Workshop on Literary Genres in Arab Heritage

An international workshop in Cairo will explore how literary genres are defined within the Arabic literary tradition, focusing on semantics, pragmatics and questions of fictionality.

The event is being organised by the Free University of Berlin in cooperation with the Institute of Arab Research and Studies, which is affiliated with the Arab League.

The workshop is titled “Defining Literary Genres in the Arabic Literary Heritage: Semantics, Pragmatics and the Problem of Fictionality.”

Its stated theme brings together questions of meaning, language in use and fictionality as approaches to examining genre distinctions in Arabic literature.

The brief announcement did not specify the workshop’s dates, its venue within Cairo or the names of participating scholars.