Hamada Kassam, Author at Center for Mark Twain Studies

Tom Sawyer Had A Dream And It Shot Him

Posted on January 30, 2018 by Hamada Kassam

EDITOR’S NOTE: The following paper was originally on the program for the 8th International Conferences on the State of Mark Twain Studies, which took place this past August at Elmira College. Unfortunately, Hamada Kassam, a Syrian national who is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at American University of Sharjah, was unable to present his paper in person, due […]

Mark Twain in Damascus: A Quest for Immortality?

Posted on February 28, 2017 by Hamada Kassam

In The Innocents Abroad (1869), Mark Twain’s first bestseller and one of the most successful travel narratives in American literature, the acclaimed young author singled out and celebrated Damascus in his descriptions of Syria. In 1867, as a 32-year-old reporter for The Daily Alta California embedded with the Quaker City pilgrims, Twain had visited the […]