Sponsored by Dr.\ Gaber Nassar, President of Cairo University, and Moaataz Abdullah, Dean of Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, the faculty holds an international conference for comparative literature, entitled “Resistance in Language and Literature”, in the period from 11 to 13 November, at 10, a.m., Conference Hall, Faculty of Arts.

About hundred researchers from Egyptian and Arab Universities as well as researchers from Southern Korea, India, Romania, Italy, Nigeria, France, Turkey, and the United States of America Participate in the conference.

Dr.\ Loubna Abdul-Tawab, Head of the Conference and Head of the English Department, has illustrated that the conference tackles several theses about resistance from many perspectives, such as; visual imagery, passive resistance, history and alternative history, media and modern means of technology, globalization and localization, humor, body strength, women and résistance, voice and silence.

The activities of the conference include organizing a seminar, entitled “Imagery Described by Alternative Histories\Texts”. On the margin of the conference, students of English Department present a theatrical show for reading poetry with music.

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