Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey

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ARBC 0420

Sex,Love,Desire in Arab Pop Cu

Sex, Love, and Desire in Arab Popular Culture
In this course we will challenge Western judgments about Arab sexuality and desire as inherently repressive. We will survey the permutations of desire -- from the sexual to the sacred, the heteroerotic to the homoerotic—in popular Arab culture. We will consider the intersections of gender, nation, race, ethnicity, ability, and sexuality in cinema, literature, and music. Through these mediums, we will examine the changing definitions of sexual respectability and sex work in different contexts, transsexuality and transgender identities, marriage, sexual revolutions and gender conflict, state regulation of sexuality, love for nation, and love in exile. This course will be taught entirely in Arabic. (ARBC 0302 or equivalent) 3 hrs. sem. AAL, ART, CMP, LNG, MDE
Subject:
Arabic
Department:
Arabic
Division:
Languages
Requirements Fulfilled:
AAL ART CMP LNG MDE

Sections in Spring 2022, School Abroad Spain (Madrid)

Spring 2022

ARBC0420A-S22 Seminar (Ayoub)