October 5, 2022

Dr. and critic Amina Hadriz, a professor at the University of Tripoli, and the novelist Mohamed Al-Naas, who won the Booker Prize for Arabic Fiction this year, are participating in the Arab Novel Forum, which is being held in Medenine, Tunisia, and organized by the Literary and Civilization Studies Association in Medenine in cooperation with the Ministry of Cultural Affairs, the Higher Institute of Human Sciences in Medenine.

The forum will be held under the title “Senses in the Arabic Narrative”, and Amina Hadreez will participate in a research entitled “The Semiotics of the Senses and Their Formation in the Narrative Path”, while the novelist Mohammed Al-Naas will participate by submitting a novelistic certificate, according to the head of the Literary and Civilization Studies Association in Medenine, Dr. Masoud Lachihab via Facebook. ».

The events of the forum will be held at the Higher Institute of Human Sciences in Medenine, and the following is the program:
The forum will kick off at nine in the morning Thursday, October 13, with words from the director of the institute, the scientific coordinator of the symposium, the president of the University of Gabes, the regional delegate for culture in Medenine, the mayor of Medenine, and a speech by the president of the Literary and Civilization Studies Association in Medenine.

Then the opening session will be held under the chairmanship of Mohamed El-Khabou (University of Sfax), during which Saeed Yaqtin (Morocco) and Joukha Al-Harthy (Oman) will lecture, then the second scientific session will be chaired by Mohamed Saleh Al-Bouamrani (University of Gafsa), and Mohamed Al-Naas (Libya) will participate in it. Novelist”, and Amna Al-Ramili (Tunisia) “Is there writing outside the senses”, Maryam Al-Saadi (UAE) “novelist testimony”, and Judy Batayneh (Jordan) “Representations of the senses in the Jordanian novel”.

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On the same day, the third scientific session will be held under the chairmanship of Ahmed Nawi El-Badri, University of “Sfax”, with the participation of Mohamed Zarrouk (Tunisia) “Senses in Models of Arab Narrative”, Lara Khaled (Lebanese University) “Dialectic of Art and Dimensions in Contemporary Novel”, Amina Hadrez, University of Tripoli (Libya) “The Semiotics of the Senses and Their Formation in the Narrative Track”.

After that, a dialogue and discussion will be held on the various interventions until one o’clock in the followingnoon.

Beirut nightmares
As for the activities on Friday, October 14, they are the second inaugural session, which will be held on the island of Djerba under the chairmanship of Mohamed Ben Ayyad “University of Sfax”, during which Al-Adil Khedr will lecture on “Smell and Truth”, and then the fifth scientific session will be held under the chairmanship of Ahmed El-Wadryni, “Higher Institute of Human Sciences in Medenine”. Abdel Moneim Shiha (Tunisia) participates in “The Narrative of Music in the Modern Arabic Novel”, “The Sense of Hearing as a Path to the Narrative Meaning”, Reda Al-Abyad (Tunisia) “The Senses: Introductions to the Poetics of Touch and Touch”, Belkacem Jaber (Tunisia) “Rhetoric”. Narrating the Senses in Maqamat al-Hariri” Ali Omran (Bahrain) “The Signs of the Senses in the Novel Chaos of the Senses: An Approach in Contemporary Semiotic Hardships.” And finally, Ali Abdulnabi (Bahrain) “Senses are a trick to rhythm: Maqamat as a model.”

On the same day, the sixth scientific session will be held under the chairmanship of Bachir Oueslati (University of Sousse), and Ibrahim Azog (Morocco) will participate in it, “The senses are engaged in the Arabic novel as if they are sleeping, by Elias Khoury as a model.” Muhammad Saleh Al-Bouamrani (Tunisia) “The Reader’s Senses: An Ignorant Approach to Receiving Narrative” Omar Hafeez (Tunisia) with “The Sensual and the Political in Models of the Tunisian Novel”, Bassam Al-Barqawi (Tunisia) “The Chaos of the Senses and the Miraculous Description in the Novel Nightmares of Beirut.”

Finally, there is a dialogue and discussion regarding the various interventions until one o’clock in the followingnoon.

The senses in Arab narrative models
On the third and final day of the forum, Saturday 15 October, the third inaugural session will start at nine in the morning, chaired by Al-Adil Khader (Manouba University), and Nasser Al-Hassani (Sultanate of Oman) “The Effect of the Senses in Guiding the Narrative,” Mona Al-Mannai (Tunisia) “Visible in the Text” will participate. The pre-Islamic poetic between the sensory (the elicited) and the new artistic (envisioned)”, Mustafa Bouqtef (Tunisia) “The seer and channels of description in the anecdotes of Al-Jahez.”

As for the ninth scientific session, it will be held under the chairmanship of Reda Al-Abyad, in which Fathi Al-Qassimi (Tunisia) “Senses in Models of Arab Narrative”, Soraya Al-Qarsi (Tunisia) “The Engagement of the Senses in the Narrative Discourse (As a Model for Muhammad Al-Saleh Al-Boamrani as a Model”), Huda Abdel Aziz, University of Hail (Saudi Arabia) “The Effect of the Senses in Forming the Narrative Structure”.

A dialogue and discussion revolves around the various interventions until one o’clock in the followingnoon, following which the symposium “Senses in Models of Arab Narrative” will be concluded, honoring Al-Adil Khader, and reading the final statement of the symposium.