From Alexandria to Oxford: A Literary Journey
From Alexandria to Oxford: A Literary Journey
Colloquium in Honour of Mustafa Badawi. (All sessions, including dinner, will be in the Fellows’ Dining Room in the Hilda Besse Building)
MONDAY 25TH MARCH
Chair: Derek Hopwood
10-00 Michael Willis
Welcome and Introduction
10-10 Marilyn Booth
Speaking Back to the Orientalists: 1890s Egyptians Writing Gender History.
10-40 Paul Starkey
Strange Incidents from History: Youssef Rakha and his Sultan’s Seal
COFFEE
11-40 Julia Bray
Mustafa’s Influences as Teacher and Critic
12-10 Mohamed Mahmoud
In the Presence of Texts
LUNCH
Chair: Marilyn Booth
14-15 Roger Allen
The Second Journey (al-rihla al-thaniyya) of Muhammad al-Muwaylihi. Hadith ‘Isa ibn Hisham Re-visited.
14-45 Sabry Hafez
Mustafa Badawi: A personal testimony
TEA
16-00 Introduced by Derek Hopwood
Absent friends and personal testimonies.
DINNER
TUESDAY 26TH MARCH
Chair: Roger Allen
10-00 Derek Hopwood
From Ibn Danyal to Philip Larkin
10-30 Robin Ostle
The Cosmopolitan Alexandrian
COFFEE
11-30 Conclusions and Afterwords.
LUNCH