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SUMMARY:Food and Language: Rhetorical-Cultural Excavations in Arab Heritag
 e / الطعام والكلام: حفريات بلاغية ثقافية ف
 ي التراث العربي - Dr Said Laouadi (Cadi Ayyad University)
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DESCRIPTION:Winner of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2025 for Literary and Ar
 t Criticism\, Dr Said Laouadi\, will be in conversation with Professor Mic
 hael Willis and Professor Eugene Rogan on his book 'الطعام والك
 لام: حفريات بلاغية ثقافية في التراث العر
 بي' / 'Food and Language: Cultural Excavations in Arab Heritage’ (2023
 ).\n\nTranslation from Arabic to English will be provided by Taj Kandoura.
 \n\nAbout the book:\nPublished in 2023\, this work offers a critique of th
 e complex relation between rhetoric and food in Arab heritage\, analysing 
 literary texts from poetry to proverbs and stories from a broad cultural p
 erspective. With its in-depth analysis and broad scope\, his research enri
 ches rhetorical studies with new\, unconventional approaches.\n\nAbout the
  author:\nSaid Laouadi is a Moroccan academic and professor of rhetoric an
 d discourse analysis at the Faculty of Arabic Language at Cadi Ayyad Unive
 rsity in Marrakech\, where he also serves as Vice Dean for Scientific Rese
 arch and International Cooperation and heads the Laboratory for Methodolog
 ical Integration in Discourse Analysis. Laouadi oversees the ‘Academic P
 icks’ programme\, which hosts leading Arab researchers in critical and l
 inguistic studies. Laouadi serves as a member of judging panels for severa
 l Arab and Moroccan literary awards\, while also contributing to various s
 pecialised academic journals as an editor and reviewer. His research explo
 res the intersection of rhetoric and culture\, with notable publications s
 uch as ‘The Kitchen of the Novel: Food in Fiction from Visuality to Weav
 ing’ (2024) and ‘Food and Language: Cultural Excavations in Arab Herit
 age’ (2023)\, along with studies on literature\, imagery\, and aesthetic
 s in poetic discourse”.\n\nSpeakers:\nDr Said Laouadi (Cadi Ayyad Univer
 sity)
LOCATION:St Antony's College (Investcorp Lecture Theatre)\, 62 Woodstock R
 oad OX2 6JF
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