Conference Areas:
- The Theoretical Framework of Cultural Criticism (Matthew Arnold, Raymond Williams, Edmund Leach, Janet Wolf, etc.)
- Arab Cultural Criticism in the Early Modern Era (al-Tahtawi, al-Kawakibi, al-Afghani, Taha Hussein, etc.)
- Recent Arab Cultural Criticism in the Arab World (Ali al-Wardi, Mohammad al-Jabiri, Hisham Sharabi, Ali Ahmad Said (Adonis), Edward Said, Fehmi Jedaane, al-Ghadhami, Salah Qansouh, etc.)
- Traditional Cultural Criticism (Travel Literature, The Muqaddima, al-Jahiz, al-Masudi etc.)
- Problems Facing Cultural Criticism in the Arab World
- Cultural Criticism in Orientalist Discourse (Brockelmann, Goldziher, Massignon, Margoliouth, etc.)
- Cultural Criticism in the Arts (Cinema, Theatre, Music, Painting, Architecture, Interior and Graphic Design)
- Arab Feminist Discourse and Cultural Criticism (Nawal El Saadawi, Fatima Mernissi, Khalida Said)
- A Round Table on “Ways of Activating Cultural Criticism in Philadelphia University Programs”