Lebanese Author: Arab Women Seeking Freedom in Zones of Conflict

Dr. Accad is Professor Emerita of French and Francophone Studies, Women’s Studies, Comparative Literature, African and Middle Eastern Studies, at the University of Illinois. She has taught and written extensively on women’s issues and conflict in Lebanon, her home country, as well as much of North Africa and the Arab world, and is known for her critical work. She resides in Paris, Beirut and Urbana, and continues to give conferences worldwide, teach, perform her songs, and work with the women’s shelter, Beit El Hanane (House of Tenderness) which she founded with her sister, in Beirut, Lebanon.

The event is sponsored by Mojekwu, Muslim Student Association, Islamic World Studies, Department of History, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, First-Year Studies, and French Club.