University of Karbala Organizes a Scientific Workshop on the Narrative of the Victim and the Executioner in Sanan Anton’s Novel “Khazami”
**Karbala, Iraq (April 16, 2024)** – The College of Education for Humanities at the University of Karbala organized a scientific workshop on the narrative of the victim and the executioner in Sanan Anton’s novel “Khazami,” targeting graduate and undergraduate students in the Department of Arabic Language.
The workshop was lectured by Dr. Hamza Abdul Hamza Aliwi.
The sections of the workshop were divided into a fruitful dialogue between the two sides of the novel: the victim and the executioner, research into the opposing narrative worlds in the novel, and also studying the effect of spatial transformations on the two sides of the novel.
The workshop aims to achieve the following objectives:
1. Emphasize the great importance of the novel as one of the texts of modern Arabic literature.
2. Emphasize the effectiveness of the novel in discussing the major social problems in our society, especially those related to the phenomenon of transitional justice.
3. Study the novel as the imagined counterpart to reality.
4. Continuously emphasize the merit of literature, especially the novel, in discussing social problems
The workshop, included a discussion of the problems of narrative imagination of the worlds of the victim and the executioner in the novel of the writer Sanan Anton. It is the major problem in post-2003 Iraq, especially in Iraqi novel texts.
The researchers in the workshop called for:
1. Emphasizing the importance of the novel as a literary text of great importance in discussing pressing social issues.
2. The importance of social discussion in its literary formulation with regard to the problem of the victim and the executioner.
3. Emphasizing the importance of discussing the narrative of the victim and the executioner in the context of social and cultural dialogue within troubled societies.
