There’s a lot of good stuff on MLA’s schedule. If you’ll be in New York check out these panels on Arab, Arab American, and Arab diasporic literature:
63 Latin America and the Arab World
104 Edward Said’s Culture and Imperialism at Twenty-Five
163 Speculative Futures in Arab(ic) Literature
361 Insecurity and Dissent in Middle Eastern and North African Cinema
439 Teaching Global Arab Comics in the United States
596 Reading the Radical: American Muslim Immigrants, Surveillance, and Narrative Resistance