HASTAC Commons | Matthew Chovanec | Activity https://hastac.hcommons.org/members/mchovanec/activity/ Activity feed for Matthew Chovanec. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:04:43 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 9fed2e9a19cabe96703e7942cfb7b6e5 Matthew Chovanec deposited Voices on Trial in Al-Maqāmāt Al-Aswāniyyah https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1853212/ Mon, 31 Jul 2023 13:24:31 +0000 Al-Maqāmāt Al-Aswāniyyah (1970) are a collection of modern maqāmāt featuring a cast of characters from Cairo’s literary scene in the late 1960s. Written by the Egyptian lawyer and author ʻAbbās al-Aswānī (1926-1978), they were a casual and contemporary iteration of the genre, depicting everything from nightlife to Nasserism. They were so modern,…[Read more]

]]> 0 c174c54fb830bbcbbd88f828bfba5034 Matthew Chovanec deposited Arabic Digital Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1748419/ Wed, 04 Aug 2021 15:38:55 +0000 This open textbook serves as a guide to digital cultural immersion in the Arab world. Each chapter looks at a different country, theme, and medium of Arab culture online. They look at specific sites and conversations taking place online, and offer suggestions and tips for how to engage with the content. The book is meant as a guide to culture…[Read more]

]]> 0 1b0f91e2c00a061e1aec31ec451f7d6d Matthew Chovanec's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1746329/ Mon, 19 Jul 2021 18:45:13 +0000 0 e35383acaf3c35b0921078d4fd9ad784 Matthew Chovanec deposited Languages of Rupture: Language Ideology and the Modern Novel in Egypt and Turkey https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1734932/ Wed, 14 Apr 2021 16:36:42 +0000 In arguing for the central role of language in the creation of the modern nationalist imaginary, scholars of recent literary histories of both Egypt and Turkey have focused a great deal of energy on commonly accepted narratives of linguistic dysfunction. In Egypt and other Arabic speaking countries, the “diglossia problem” has been the locus for…[Read more]

]]> 0 935c0a0f2b080178760bced16a29eca3 Matthew Chovanec changed their profile picture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1575060/ Sat, 01 Jul 2017 19:05:47 +0000 0 239cb0e0554805e8cc55209b55c5d3c4 Matthew Chovanec deposited 21st Century Ottoman: The Ottoman Turkish Linguistic Revival in Digital Affinity Spaces https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1575059/ Sat, 01 Jul 2017 18:51:38 +0000 In 2014, the Turkish National Education Council recommending teaching Ottoman Turkish as a mandatory subject in all high schools. Since that time, this historical register of the Turkish language has been making a popular comeback. This is especially true online, where participants are creating and sharing new content written in Ottoman. This…[Read more]

]]> 0 023609b5beebbefc313c6cefc4e902bd Matthew Chovanec deposited Ottomania and the Revival of Intertextual Practices in Contemporary Turkish Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1563972/ Tue, 07 Mar 2017 13:13:56 +0000 this paper looks at trends in contemporary Turkish literature to see how classic categories of Ottoman poetics are showing up in modern novels.

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