Assist. Lec. Tahirah Makki Abdul Kareem, from the Department of Scholarships and Cultural Relations at the University of Information Technology and Communications, participated in the activities of the 12th Scientific Conference of the College of Languages, University of Baghdad, under the title: (Eastern Languages and Cultural Identity in the Middle East: Critical Approaches in Light of Ongoing Conflicts).
Her participation featured a research paper entitled (Imagining Home Otherwise: Diasporic Identity, Spatial Dislocation, and the Unhomely in Hafsah Faizal’s Fantasy Fiction). In her paper, she addressed the complexities of identity within the context of alienation, and examined how the concept of the “unhomely” is represented in fantasy texts, contributing to the scholarly discussions that took place during the conference sessions.
The conference aims to shed light on the role of Eastern languages in shaping cultural identity and enhancing communication among peoples, as well as to discuss the major challenges they face amid contemporary political and social transformations.
The conference also featured a number of specialized research presentations distributed across various sessions, covering multiple themes, including the teaching of Eastern languages, the linguistic history of the region, the impact of non-linguistic factors on language acquisition, and challenges related to dialect translation.