How would art from Arabian Days and Nights look interpreted to a Middle Eastern/East Asia context with the focus in the 1980s?
Presenter
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Tessa Vandenberg
Presenter Status
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Undergraduate student
Academic Year
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20-21
Semester
:
Fall
Faculty Mentor
:
Razzan Zahra
Department
:
English
Funding Source/Program
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SYRCE Symposium
Presentation Link
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Abstract
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This project aims to properly represent characters from Naguib Mahfouz's Arabian Days and Nights in a modern sense. It focuses mostly on fashion in the 1980s and how it could be interpreted into a realistic idea of how these characters were represented in the book. It draws from inspiration of fashion from the Middel East and the United States as well due to the final piece of the project. The final piece of the project features two pieces of my own art which I have created to represent the characters.