University of Bucharest
Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures
55 years of Arab Studies in Romania
— International Colloquium —
(organized by George Grigore & Laura Sitaru)
Center for Arab Studies, Pitar Moş Street, 7-13, Bucharest
Sâmbătă, 19 mai 2012, a avut loc la Centrul de Studii Arabe al Facultăţii de Limbi şi Literaturi Străine din Bucureşti colocviul internaţional “55 Years of Arab Studies in Romania”.
Topics and Participants
■ “IV-stem verbs in Moroccan dialects”.
Jorge Aguadé, University of Cádiz, Spain
■ “Aspects of the Negation in the Lebanese Series ’Ağyāl”.
Ana Alexandru, University of Bucharest
■ “Islam, a Mosaic, not a Monolith”.
Syafaatun Almirzanah, Georgetown University, USA
■ “The Function of fi in the Verbal System of Arabic Pidgins”
Andrei A. Avram, University of Bucharest
■ “On Mhallami Arabic Features Inferred from an Oral Text”.
Gabriel Biţună, University of Bucharest
■ “Limitations of Automatic Translations Google Translate”.
Andra Dodiţă, University of Bucharest
■ “Evolution of a Western loan word in Arabic: (I)frang and its derivatives”.
Ioana Feodorov, Institute for Southeast European Studies, The Romanian Academy, Bucharest
■ “Building a New Literary Construct through Intercultural Negotiation (Illustration: the ‘Suspended Odes’)”.
Rodica Firănescu, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
■ “Siirti Arabic in Written Sources: A Collection of Proverbs”.
George Grigore, University of Bucharest
■ “On some aspects of the Tunisian Arabic verbal system”.
Giuliano Mion, G. D’Annunzio University, Pescara, Italy
■ “Sacred Topography and Symbolic Legitimation in the Hagiography of Hacı Bektaş Veli”.
Luminiţa Munteanu, University of Bucharest
■ “From City Walls to Facebook Walls. The Cybernatization of Urban Territoriality in the Graffiti of the Arab Spring”.
Georgiana Nicoarea, University of Bucharest
■ “Conceptual Metaphor and Arab Philological Reflections on Metaphor and Figurative Speech”.
Ovidiu Pietrăreanu, University of Bucharest
■ “Some Considerations on the Translation of the Term of Address ’ustād in Naguib Mahfouz’s Novels”.
Corina Postolache, University of Bucharest
■ “Problem of Arabic Sufi Texts Interpretation”.
Ruzana Pskhu, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, Moscow
■ “Stereotypes about Islam and media intellectuals’ discourse after 9/11”.
Laura Sitaru, University of Bucharest
■ “The Proto-Semitic ’l. Some of its Hypostases in Modern Arabic”.
Christian Tămaş, „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University, Iaşi.
■ “On Sounds and Silence in Ibn Sīnā’s Rasā’il fī ’asrār al-mašriqiyya”
Grete Tartler, University of Bucharest
■ “Cross-cultural Awareness and Readability: Teaching Arabic Literature in Romania”.
Irina Vainovski-Mihai, „Dimitrie Cantemir” Christian University, Bucharest