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News and Announcements

  • ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Check out  the brochure of our undergraduate programs in Language and Literature here 

  • Check out  the brochure of our graduate programs in Language and Literature here​

  • See the changes and additions to the Minors offered by the Department of English here 

  • See the curriculum revision and new requirements for MA in Literature here

  • The Faculty of Arts & Sciences, the Center for Arts & Humanities, alongside the Department of English and the Theater Initiative, has the pleasure of inviting you to a talk by Alia Alzougbi, Artistic Director and CEO of the UK’s Shubbak Festival, titled “Rehearsing Otherwise: Art, Diaspora, and the Politics of Imagination​​.” on Thursday, March 12, 2026 at 3:00 PM - Auditorium A, West Hall, AUB 
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  • The personal collection of Saadallah Wannous. 
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  • The Second Coming ​a new book by Prof. Tariq Mehmood Ali.​

  • Lines of Fire: Poetry of the Afro-Asian Writers Movement a forthcoming book by Dr. Tariq Mehmood Ali (Daraja/AUB Press).

  • ​"An Impossible Friendship" ​Group Portrait, Jerusalem Before and After 1948, a new book by Sonja Mejcher-Atassi,Columbia University Press, May ​2024.   https://cup.columbia.edu/book/an-impossible-friendship/9780231214759

  • ​​​​​The Department of English is the new home of Theater at AUB. In this interview, featured in Yale Today, Robert Myers, who founded and heads the Theater Initiative at AUB, and his collaborator Nada Saab​ discuss theater, translation, and their academic and artistic formation. This Fall, Prof. Myers is coteaching the Workshop in Theater Production, whose students will be involved in a professional production this November of Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People in Lebanese Arabic, directed by his coteacher Lucien Bou Rjeily. Watch for the production dates and the many associated events on campus and beyond.​
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  • ​The Global Humanities Forum is a monthly series showcasing research from universities in the Global Humanities Network , comprising the University of Cambridge, the American University of Beirut, Ashoka University, Universidad Diego Portales, Fudan University, Nanjing University, and Sabanci University.​
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  • Professor Tariq Mehmood Ali​ is the subject of a two-part BBC series on his life and work, The Bradford 12: The Asian Youth Who Took on the Racists. Recordings are available to stream here: Part 1  ​Part 2 ​​

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