The Moroccan Comparative Literature Association (MCLA) Organizes, in collaboration with The Faculty of Letters & Human Sciences, Ibn-Zohr University, An International Conference ON Arabic Literature and World: Towards a Universal Dialogue between Self and Other In Partnership with ICLA  Research Committee on Arabic Comparative Literature ; AWEJ for Translation and Literary Studies (AWEJTLS) ; And The Comparative Literature & Society Research Group (CL@S) of the Comparative Humanities and Applied Language Studies Lab (CHALS)   Space of Humanities, Faculty of Letters & Human Sciences, Ibn-Zohr University – Agadir, Morocco 16–18 April, 2026 CALL FOR PAPERS ARABIC LITERATURE AND WORLD: TOWARDS A UNIVERSAL DIALOGUE BETWEEN SELF AND OTHER A vibrant literature can hardly exist without its place within the broader global literary landscape. “In the life of the mind, as in that of politics” said George Steiner (1995), “isolationism and nationalist arrogance are the road to ...

 

 

 

Comparatistes (marocains et étrangers) arabophones, francophones et anglophones, à vos plumes ! Nous comptons sur vous pour fouiller le terrain des études comparées  en Sciences Humaines et Sociales , au Maroc et nous aider à dresser un bilan sérieux sur l’état de ce champs interdisciplinaire d’ envergure , en vue de créer une première édition à l’occasion de la première décennie de création de l’ASSOCIATION MAROCAINE DE LITTERATURE COMPAREE. Un Appel aux chapitres sera lancé imminemment.  

 Inaugural Speech.  by   First MCLA President  Dr.Touria  Nakkouch    

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 Photo Gallery       MCLA 2021 symposium on “Using Interdisciplinarity in Comparative Literature Studies: Prospects and Risks Involved”

OVERVIEW & RATIONALE Comparative Literature has ultimately survived the crises which predicted its demise. It has successfully overcome the challenges and constraints of globalization thanks to the discipline’s self-revision and its reassessment of tools and methods. The expansion of Comparative Literary Studies across geographic and linguistic borders has allowed the discipline to open up on and engage dialogue with other humanist disciplines which have been perceived as rival or substitute fields: Ethnic Studies, Area Studies, Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Studies and Gender Studies.  Such cross-national and interdisciplinary openness contributed not only to a revitalization of the epistemological dimension and the political engagements of Comparative Literature, but also to a renewal of the meaning of literary comparisons. Comparative Literature has proved able to address the questions that engage different systems of knowledge and different forms of artistic productions in...