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February 4, 2004

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ISRAELI FOLKLORIST TO LECTURE
AT UH ABOUT TALES OF ARABIC WOMEN

Israeli Folklorist and Tel-Aviv University Professor Eli Yassif will speak at the University of Houston Tuesday,
Feb. 10.

He will deliver his speech, “The Voice of ‘the Other’: Women’s Tales in Arabic Folklore in Israel,” about medieval literature will take place at 1 p.m. in the A.D. Bruce Religion Center. The talk is free and open to the public.

Yassif is the author of 10 books on Jewish folklore, Hebrew medieval narrative, Hebrew literature, and contemporary culture in Israel. His visit is sponsored by the UH English department and the Martha Gano Houstoun trust, which named him Martha Gano Houstoun Distinguished Visiting Scholar.

His visit to UH is part of a month-long series of courses sponsored by Houston’s Jewish Community Center’s Bunny and Leo Horvitz Scholar-in-Residence Program.

During his nearly month-long visit to Houston, Yassif will conduct free and open to the public seminars at the Jewish Community Center, 5601 S. Braeswood. Topics include “Jewish Myths from the Bible to Modern Israel,” “The Silent Cry of the Voice of Women in Traditional Jewish Literature,” and “The Midrashic Narrative: Rabbinic Stories and Their Cultural Meaning.”

WHAT: “The Voice of ‘the Other’: Women’s Tales in Arabic Folklore in Israel”
WHO: Israeli Folklorist Eli Yassif
WHEN: 1 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2004
WHERE: Main Chapel, A.D. Bruce Religion Center at UH, Entrance 13

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