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Evelyne Accad

Evelyne Accad

Office: 305 at 1205 1/2 W. Nevada
Email: e-accad@uiuc.edu

Born and raised in Beirut, Lebanon (Oct. 1943). Primary, secondary education in Beirut and two years at the Beirut College for Women (now the Lebanese American University). B.A. from Anderson College in English Literature (1967); M.A. in French from Ball State University (1968) and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Indiana University (1973).

A professor at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana since 1974 in French, Comparative Literature, African Studies, Women Studies, Middle-East Studies, and the Honors Program. In 1978 and 1984, she taught at the Beirut University College,and in the spring 1991, at Northwestern University. Other activities include writing and composing songs--the music and the lyrics--and performing at various concerts in the U.S. and abroad.

Publications include:

 

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Evelyne Accad's CD Women and War Music Festival (2005) http://www.ckohnhorst.com/_sgt/m2m1_1.htm

 

  
  C'était hier Sabra et Chatila (1983) et Montjoie Palestine ou l'An dernier à Jerusalem (1980) , by Noureddine ABA. Traduit en français par Evelyne Accad (L'Harmattan, 2004).
The Wounded Breast (North Melbourne, Australia: Spinifex, 2001)  
  Voyages en cancer (Paris: L'Harmattan, Tunis: Aloès, & Beirut: An-Nahar, 2000)

Blessures des Mots: Journal de Tunisie (Paris: Côté-Femmes, 1993, English edition, Wounding Words: A Woman's Journal in Tunisia, Heinemann, 1996)
Video of the play Les Filles de Tahar Haddad (inspired by Blessures des Mots) found at www.CKohnhorst.com

 
Des femmes, des hommes et la guerre: Fiction et Realite au Proche-Orient. (Paris: Côté-Femmes, 1993, France-Liban Award, 1994)  
 

Sexuality and War: Literary Masks of the Middle East. (New York: N.Y.U. Press, 1990)

Sexualidad y Guerra (Bogota: Indigo ediciones, 1997)
  Coquelicot du massacre (Paris: L'Harmattan, 1988; avec cassette de chansons composées et interprétées par l'auteur)

L'Excisée (Paris: L'Harmattan, 1982, 2è édition 1992; traduction anglaise: Three Continents Press, Washington, 1989 (see Lynne Rienner publisher); German translation: Horlemann, 2001)
Veil of Shame: The Role of Women in the Contemporary Fiction of North Africa and the Arab World (Naaman: 1978; Prix Delta Kappa Gamma International Educator's Award, 1979)