<div dir="auto">Dear Hany,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Congratulations to you, all the editors, and authors, and thanks for this great contributions to our field.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">All best,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Suzanne</div><div><br clear="all"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych, PhD</div><div><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif">Sultan Qaboos bin Said Professor </font><span style="font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif">of Arabic & Islamic Studies, emerita</span></div><div><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif">Georgetown University</font></div><div><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif">Washington, DC USA</font></div><div><font size="1" face="arial narrow, sans-serif"><a href="https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014TiliAAC/suzanne-stetkevych" target="_blank">Georgetown Bio</a> / </font><a href="https://georgetown.academia.edu/SuzanneStetkevych" style="font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif;font-size:x-small" target="_blank">Academia.com</a></div><div><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif"><img width="62" height="96" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4xMpKjyYZo-NjwZeuaTccvhSA1cHtvYsXyVL94qC3bnEmcJZpkIt5gCK5EVASyMi_3g2f0Qqac"> <u style="color:rgb(0,0,238);font-size:x-small"><a href="https://brill.com/display/title/61169?language=en" target="_blank">The Cooing of the Dove and the Cawing of the Crow (Open Access)</a></u><br></font></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 15, 2026 at 1:03 AM Hany Rashwan <<a href="mailto:hrashwan7@gmail.com">hrashwan7@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,18,77)"><font size="4"></font><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font size="4">Dear friends and colleagues,</font></span></div>
<p><font size="4">I hope this message finds you and your loved ones in the best of health.</font></p>
<p><font size="4">I am delighted to share the good news that <em>Arabic, Persian, and Turkic Poetics: Towards a <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77)"></span>Post-Eurocentric Literary Theory</em> has been shortlisted for the <strong>European Comparative Literature Excellence Award</strong>.</font></p>
<p><font size="4">Shortlist announcement:<br>
<a rel="noopener" href="https://escl-selc.eu/2026/04/05/escl-excellence-award-for-collaborative-research-2026-shortlist-announcement/" target="_blank">https://escl-selc.eu/2026/04/05/escl-excellence-award-for-collaborative-research-2026-shortlist-announcement/<span aria-hidden="true"></span></a></font></p>
<p><font size="4">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<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,18,77)">, </span>not only for the book itself, but for what it represents.</font></p>
<p><font size="4">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.</font></p>
<p><font size="4">Book link:<br>
<a rel="noopener" href="https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9780197267790" target="_blank">https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9780197267790<span aria-hidden="true"></span></a></font></p>
<p><font size="4">This recognition offers hope to scholars working on non-European literatures<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,18,77)">, </span>modern and premodern alike<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,18,77)">, </span>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.</font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,18,77)"></span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,18,77)"></span>In challenging intellectual times, moments like this suggest that <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,18,77)">Euro-American </span>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<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,18,77)">, </span>rather than merely critiquing Eurocentrism while reproducing parallel nationalist chauvinisms, they can foster genuinely self-critical, and intellectually responsible forms of knowledge production.</font></p><p><font size="4">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.</font></p>
<p><font size="4">Wishing you a pleasant weekend.</font></p>
<p><font size="4">All my very best wishes,</font></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77)">Hany Rashwan </div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div><br clear="all"></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><p><font size="2" face="arial, sans-serif" color="#20124d">Best wishes, </font></p><p><font size="2" face="arial, sans-serif" color="#20124d">Dr Hany Rashwan</font></p><p><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#20124d">Assistant Professor of Arabic Language and Literature</font></p><p><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#20124d">United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) <font size="2"><br></font></font></p><p style="text-align:justify"><a href="https://research.uaeu.ac.ae/en/persons/hany-rashwan/" target="_blank">https://research.uaeu.ac.ae/en/persons/hany-rashwan/</a></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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