9.45-10.00: Opening Remarks: 

• Rita Awad (ALECSO, Tunisia): “Ameen Rihani and the Arab World Today”

10.15-12.15: Panel I: Ameen Rihani, the Intellectual
Moderator: Christopher Stone

• Wail Hassan (University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana): “Portrait of the Arab American Intellectual: Ameen Rihani and Edward Said”

• Nathan Funk (University of Waterloo, Canada): “Bridging Two Worlds: Ameen Rihani’s Journey and Intercultural Vision”

1.30-3.30: Panel II: Comparative Perspectives on Ameen Rihani
Moderator: Robyn Creswell (Brown University)

• Ameen Albert Rihani (Notre Dame University, Lebanon): “The Book of Khalid in the Framework of Modernism and Postmodernism”

• Roger Sedarat (Queens College, CUNY): “Of Fire and Goblins: Metaphorical Displacements in The Book of Khalid”

4.00-6.00: Panel III: Rihani’s Advocacy: Feminism and Nationalism
Moderator: Roger Allen (University of Pennsylvania)

• Nijmeh Hajjar (University of Sydney): “Rihani's Feminist Vision between Fiction and Reality”

• Hani Bawardi (University of Michigan, Dearborn): “Reading Rihani; Rethinking Arab American History”

6:15-6:45: Concluding Remarks

• Todd Fine (Project Khalid): “Published, October, 1911: The Centennial Anniversary of The Book of Khalid in New York” 

Friday, October 28, 2011, The Segal Theater