R. Kevin Lacey

Chair, Classical and Near Eastern Studies
Director, Middle East and North African Studies Program
Undergraduate Advisor, Arabic and Near Eastern Studies Program
Director, SUNY Binghamton Morocco Program

Contact Information     Recent Publications     Current Projects      Other Activities     Courses Taught     Education   

Contact Information: Telephone:        (607) 777-6776 e-mail:                klacey@binghamton.edu Office:                LT 1108 Recent Publications: The Arab-African and Islamic Worlds: Interdisciplinary Interdisciplinary Studies (Peter Lang, 2000), co-edited with Ralph M. Coury; Mirrors on the Maghrib: Critical Reflections on Paul and Jane Bowles and Other American Writers in Morocco (Caravan Press, 1996), co-edited with Francis Poole;  "Western Movie Images of Arab-African North Africa:  The Sheltering Sky and the Question of Orientalism"; "Paul and Jane Bowles, the Beats, and North Africa: Aesthetic Creativity through Cultural Alienation"; "Days, Tangier Journal 1987-1989: The Text, The Context, and Closing the Circle on Paul Bowles’s Impressions of Tangier"; "An 11th Century Muslim’s Syncretistic Perspective of Cosmology: Abu al-‘Ala al-Ma‘arri's Philosophical-Poetic Reflections in Luzum Ma La Yalzam on the Make-up and Dynamic of the Universe."

Current Projects:

Man and Society in The Necessities of Abu al-‘Ala al-Ma‘arri (book); "Images of Egypt in Recent Hollywood Films" (article); Coordinator, Middle East and North African Film Series; Director, MENA (Middle East and North African) Program at Binghamton University; Managing Editor, The Journal for Middle Eastern and North African Intellectual and Cultural Studies.

Other Activities:

Arabic Circle of Binghamton (language and culture club);  SUNY Binghamton Morocco Program (Director); MENA Program Director; SUNY Press manuscript reader; Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. manuscript reader, NEH project evaluator.

Courses Taught:

Arabic, Arabic literature, Arabic Literature in Translation, Contemporary North African Arabic Literature, Literary Classics of the Islamic World, Western Media Representations of Arabs and Muslims, Introduction to Islam, Women and Islam.