Rita Sakr
Biographic Data
| ID | 113375 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rita Sakr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rita |
| FAMILY NAME | Sakr |
| SIGNATURE | SAKR R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kent |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3684-8006 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Supporting young Mena refugees in Ireland during and after the Covid-19 pandemic
Purpose Refugees, asylum seekers and migrants have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide and with what would appear to be a continuing legacy of ill effects. The aims of this study were to examine the impact of, and responses to, COVID-19 restrictions on newcomer adolescent refugees (aged 13–18 years) who resettled to Ireland from mainly conflict-affected countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. D…
Literary Representations of the Palestine/Israel Conflict After the Second Intifada
Studies literary representations of Israel and Palestine that challenge mainstream political and historical discourses Provides a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the spectrum of emergent and existing literary forms that now represents the Palestine/Israel conflict to a global audience Brings together a geographically diverse team of literary and cultural studies researchers with depth of expertise in Palestine/Israel and Middle Eastern stu…
Decolonial imaginaries of sanctuary in Behrouz Boochani’s work
This article explores Kurdish–Iranian writer–filmmaker–activist Behrouz Boochani’s work, at the centre of which philosophical and aesthetic questions concerning displacement and defamiliarization fuel a rethinking of the tropes, practices and policies that mark the parameters of sanctuary, thus allowing its re-imagining from an environmentally informed, transcultural decolonial perspective. The article addresses the genre-crossing interdisciplina…
The more-than-human refugee journey
This article addresses the representation of forced and clandestine migration in some of Hassan Blasim's short stories within an interdisciplinary conceptual framework that brings together theories of biopolitics, ecocriticism, human rights discourse, heterotopia, and the aesthetics of "nightmare realism". Blasim's short stories offer new opportunities to address territoriality, life and truth at their limits in real and imagined sites where fore…
The Lebanese post-civil war novel
The Lebanese post-civil war novel: memory, trauma, and capital." Contemporary Levant, 2(2), pp. 130–131
'Anticipating' the 2011 Arab Uprisings
This Palgrave Pivot volume explores an exciting range of powerful novels and memoirs from Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Syria that reveal political geographies of injustice and popular discontent thus 'a
The Ethics of Representation in Literature, Art, and Journalism
Preface Gilbert Achcar Introduction Caroline Rooney and Rita Sakr Part 1: Representing the Siege 1. 'War is surrealism without art': Representing the Unrepresentable in Mahmoud Darwish's Memory for Forgetfulness, Rawi Hage's De Niro's Game, and Robert Fisk's Pity the Nation Rita Sakr 2. Writing Beirut c.1982: James Buchan, Robert Fisk, and Charles Glass Donna Landry and Gerald Maclean 3. 'Besiege Your Siege!': Mahmoud Darwish, Representation, and…
Introduction
This introduction addresses the relationship between the creative power of revolutionary people and the revolutionary power of writers in the Arab world. It outlines the ways in which this study explores an exciting range of powerful novels and memoirs from Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Syria that, in the last 15 years especially, unraveled the political geographies of injustice and popular discontent thus ‘anticipating’ or envisioning and participa…
‘A Way of Making a Space for Ourselves Where We Can Make the Best of Ourselves’
This chapter argues that ‘Tahrir’ has to be addressed as both a symbolic political geography that organically extends to the entire Egyptian nation and as a language and practice of ‘Tahrir’ (‘liberation’) that spans a century of resistance against different forms of imperial hegemony and social and spatial injustice in Cairo, Egypt, and beyond. It explores this double significance across literary texts, particularly a memoir and novels by Ahdaf …
'Anticipating' the 2011 Arab Uprisings
Rock the Casbah
Between Terror and Taboo
This essay explores monumentalisation as an idea and a practice that function as the matrix of history and politics in Orhan Pamuk's novels The Black Book and Snow. I examine the politics of Pamuk's negotiation of ‘monumentalisation’ in the two novels through its different textual trajectories: the surreal image of the apocalyptic agency of Ataturk statues in Turkish space and history; the elliptical and marginal representation of a centrally sig…
Imaginative migrations
The history of mankind is full of wars, divisions, the flow of blood, the flight of refugees and misery. I long for the day when an African child will be able to roam the world as if it is rightly his; I long for the day when Palestinian, Guatemalan, Iraqi and Afghan children will have homes to keep and build upon. I long for the day when we humans realize that we are all gatherers and wanderers, ever bound to cross each other’s paths, and that t…
Negotiating Post-war Lebanese Literature
Rashid al-Daif is one of Lebanon’s most prominent and prolific writers. Born in 1945, al-Daif is a novelist, poet, and Professor of Modern Arabic Literature (with a doctorate from France) at the Lebanese University in West Beirut. Eight of al-Daif’s 13 works of fiction (12 novels and one collection of short stories), originally published in Arabic, have been translated into English and/or French as well as into other languages. English translatio…
The more-than-human refugee journey
This article addresses the representation of forced and clandestine migration in some of Hassan Blasim's short stories within an interdisciplinary conceptual framework that brings together theories of biopolitics, ecocriticism, human rights discourse, heterotopia, and the aesthetics of "nightmare realism". Blasim's short stories offer new opportunities to address territoriality, life and truth at their limits in real and imagined sites where fore…
Decolonial imaginaries of sanctuary in Behrouz Boochani’s work
This article explores Kurdish–Iranian writer–filmmaker–activist Behrouz Boochani’s work, at the centre of which philosophical and aesthetic questions concerning displacement and defamiliarization fuel a rethinking of the tropes, practices and policies that mark the parameters of sanctuary, thus allowing its re-imagining from an environmentally informed, transcultural decolonial perspective. The article addresses the genre-crossing interdisciplina…
Imaginative migrations
The history of mankind is full of wars, divisions, the flow of blood, the flight of refugees and misery. I long for the day when an African child will be able to roam the world as if it is rightly his; I long for the day when Palestinian, Guatemalan, Iraqi and Afghan children will have homes to keep and build upon. I long for the day when we humans realize that we are all gatherers and wanderers, ever bound to cross each other’s paths, and that t…
Negotiating Post-war Lebanese Literature
Rashid al-Daif is one of Lebanon’s most prominent and prolific writers. Born in 1945, al-Daif is a novelist, poet, and Professor of Modern Arabic Literature (with a doctorate from France) at the Lebanese University in West Beirut. Eight of al-Daif’s 13 works of fiction (12 novels and one collection of short stories), originally published in Arabic, have been translated into English and/or French as well as into other languages. English translatio…
Between Terror and Taboo
This essay explores monumentalisation as an idea and a practice that function as the matrix of history and politics in Orhan Pamuk's novels The Black Book and Snow. I examine the politics of Pamuk's negotiation of ‘monumentalisation’ in the two novels through its different textual trajectories: the surreal image of the apocalyptic agency of Ataturk statues in Turkish space and history; the elliptical and marginal representation of a centrally sig…
Imaginative migrations
The history of mankind is full of wars, divisions, the flow of blood, the flight of refugees and misery. I long for the day when an African child will be able to roam the world as if it is rightly his; I long for the day when Palestinian, Guatemalan, Iraqi and Afghan children will have homes to keep and build upon. I long for the day when we humans realize that we are all gatherers and wanderers, ever bound to cross each other’s paths, and that t…
'Anticipating' the 2011 Arab Uprisings
This Palgrave Pivot volume explores an exciting range of powerful novels and memoirs from Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Syria that reveal political geographies of injustice and popular discontent thus 'a
The Ethics of Representation in Literature, Art, and Journalism
Preface Gilbert Achcar Introduction Caroline Rooney and Rita Sakr Part 1: Representing the Siege 1. 'War is surrealism without art': Representing the Unrepresentable in Mahmoud Darwish's Memory for Forgetfulness, Rawi Hage's De Niro's Game, and Robert Fisk's Pity the Nation Rita Sakr 2. Writing Beirut c.1982: James Buchan, Robert Fisk, and Charles Glass Donna Landry and Gerald Maclean 3. 'Besiege Your Siege!': Mahmoud Darwish, Representation, and…
Introduction
This introduction addresses the relationship between the creative power of revolutionary people and the revolutionary power of writers in the Arab world. It outlines the ways in which this study explores an exciting range of powerful novels and memoirs from Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Syria that, in the last 15 years especially, unraveled the political geographies of injustice and popular discontent thus ‘anticipating’ or envisioning and participa…
‘A Way of Making a Space for Ourselves Where We Can Make the Best of Ourselves’
This chapter argues that ‘Tahrir’ has to be addressed as both a symbolic political geography that organically extends to the entire Egyptian nation and as a language and practice of ‘Tahrir’ (‘liberation’) that spans a century of resistance against different forms of imperial hegemony and social and spatial injustice in Cairo, Egypt, and beyond. It explores this double significance across literary texts, particularly a memoir and novels by Ahdaf …
'Anticipating' the 2011 Arab Uprisings
Rock the Casbah
The Lebanese post-civil war novel
The Lebanese post-civil war novel: memory, trauma, and capital." Contemporary Levant, 2(2), pp. 130–131
The more-than-human refugee journey
This article addresses the representation of forced and clandestine migration in some of Hassan Blasim's short stories within an interdisciplinary conceptual framework that brings together theories of biopolitics, ecocriticism, human rights discourse, heterotopia, and the aesthetics of "nightmare realism". Blasim's short stories offer new opportunities to address territoriality, life and truth at their limits in real and imagined sites where fore…
Decolonial imaginaries of sanctuary in Behrouz Boochani’s work
This article explores Kurdish–Iranian writer–filmmaker–activist Behrouz Boochani’s work, at the centre of which philosophical and aesthetic questions concerning displacement and defamiliarization fuel a rethinking of the tropes, practices and policies that mark the parameters of sanctuary, thus allowing its re-imagining from an environmentally informed, transcultural decolonial perspective. The article addresses the genre-crossing interdisciplina…
Literary Representations of the Palestine/Israel Conflict After the Second Intifada
Studies literary representations of Israel and Palestine that challenge mainstream political and historical discourses Provides a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the spectrum of emergent and existing literary forms that now represents the Palestine/Israel conflict to a global audience Brings together a geographically diverse team of literary and cultural studies researchers with depth of expertise in Palestine/Israel and Middle Eastern stu…
Supporting young Mena refugees in Ireland during and after the Covid-19 pandemic
Purpose Refugees, asylum seekers and migrants have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide and with what would appear to be a continuing legacy of ill effects. The aims of this study were to examine the impact of, and responses to, COVID-19 restrictions on newcomer adolescent refugees (aged 13–18 years) who resettled to Ireland from mainly conflict-affected countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. D…
Political science (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · History (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (8 works) · Middle East Politics and Society (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · History (6 works) · Ancient history (5 works) · Law (5 works)