[Andalusi Studies] [Arabic Lit Scholars] Arabic, Persian, and Turkic Poetics: Shortlisted for the European Comparative Literature Excellence Award

[Suzanne Stetkevych]

Dear Hany,

Congratulations to you, all the editors, and authors, and thanks for this
great contributions to our field.

All best,

Suzanne


Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych, PhD
Sultan Qaboos bin Said Professor of Arabic & Islamic Studies, emerita
Georgetown University
Washington, DC  USA
Georgetown Bio
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 *The Cooing of the Dove and the Cawing of the Crow (Open Access)
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On Fri, May 15, 2026 at 1:03 AM Hany Rashwan <hrashwan7 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear friends and colleagues,
>
> I hope this message finds you and your loved ones in the best of health.
>
> I am delighted to share the good news that *Arabic, Persian, and Turkic
> Poetics: Towards a Post-Eurocentric Literary Theory* has been shortlisted
> for the *European Comparative Literature Excellence Award*.
>
> Shortlist announcement:
>
> https://escl-selc.eu/2026/04/05/escl-excellence-award-for-collaborative-research-2026-shortlist-announcement/
>
> When we began this journey, I did not imagine that a volume openly
> committed to a post-Eurocentric literary theory would receive such
> recognition from a major European scholarly body. This shortlist feels
> meaningful, not only for the book itself, but for what it represents.
>
> The project was conceived in 2018 at the American University of Beirut,
> with invaluable support from Bilal Orfali and the late Professor Abdulrahim
> Abu-Husayn. Over the years, it has grown through sustained collaboration
> with outstanding colleagues who trusted the vision and contributed chapters
> of remarkable depth. I am deeply grateful to each contributor and to the
> distinguished scholars who generously endorsed the volume: Geert Jan van
> Gelder, Shawkat M. Toorawa, Mohammad Salama, Huda Fakhreddine, and Louise
> Marlow.
>
> Book link:
> https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9780197267790
>
> This recognition offers hope to scholars working on non-European
> literatures, modern and premodern alike, that Comparative Literature and
> World Literature can meaningfully engage with area studies to rethink
> inherited Eurocentric frameworks. Such engagement allows these disciplines
> to renew themselves and to generate knowledge beyond narrow nationalist
> paradigms that have long privileged Euro-American literary histories.
>
> In challenging intellectual times, moments like this suggest that
> Euro-American academic fields can evolve, question entrenched
> hierarchies, and create space for plural literary traditions on more equal
> footing. We also hope that similar reflexive renewal emerges in the nations
> of the Global South, rather than merely critiquing Eurocentrism while
> reproducing parallel nationalist chauvinisms, they can foster genuinely
> self-critical, and intellectually responsible forms of knowledge production.
>
> If the volume is not available in your library and access is difficult,
> please feel free to write to me; I would be happy to share a PDF copy.
>
> Wishing you a pleasant weekend.
>
> All my very best wishes,
> Hany Rashwan
>
>
> --
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Dr Hany Rashwan
>
> Assistant Professor of Arabic Language and Literature
>
> United Arab Emirates University (UAEU)
>
> https://research.uaeu.ac.ae/en/persons/hany-rashwan/
>
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