Malek J Zuraikat
Biographic Data
| ID | 1171614 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Malek J Zuraikat |
| GIVEN NAMES | Malek J |
| FAMILY NAME | Zuraikat |
| SIGNATURE | ZURAIKAT M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yarmouk University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1948-2671 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sanctuaries of Lust and Legacies of Dust in William Wells Brown's Clotel; or, The President's Daughter
William Wells Brown’s Clotel (1853) depicts the tragic experience of a family of biracial female slaves, viewing their familial separation and dehumanization in antebellum American South as a cross-generational struggle that cannot be dismissed when defining and contextualizing biracial identity in the cultural milieu of the nineteenth century. This historical-cultural context, we believe, represents the total value of Brown’s narrative, which ne…
Decoding the political allegory in the Syrian comedy al-Kherba
The Syrian television sitcom al-Kherba (‘the Ruin’, 2011-present) can be viewed as a political allegory that dramatises the authoritarian Ba’th regime in Syria (1971–2024). Analysing the village-setting and character dynamics in numerous scenes distributed throughout the entirety of the musalsal ’s 30 episodes, the paper argues that al-Kherba invites an allegorical reading of the humoristic discourse arising from the integration of sociopolitical…
Chaucer's Experiments in dreaming in “the book of the Duchess”
Chaucer's “The Book of the Duchess” is usually read by critics as the poet's consolation to his patron, John of Gaunt, at the death of Blanche. They suggest that the poet's interest in talking face-to-face with Gaunt concerning the death of Blanche inspired the use of the poem's dream framework, thus contextualizing its consoling content. This view seems insightful; nonetheless, it restricts the poem's value to the poet's sociopolitical status in…
Optimistic meditations on Sartre's existentialism
In an attempt to highlight the optimism of Sartre's Existentialism, this paper investigates the two main fundamentals of existence, namely the Death of God and freedom, as articulated by Sartre in Existentialism is a Humanism (1946). The paper clarifies some misunderstandings concerning both concepts and their existential repercussions, arguing that Sartre's Existentialism is more optimistic than pessimistic due to the rational link between freed…
The Overlap of the Political and Emotional Discourse in Sir Isumbras
This paper reads Sir Isumbras, one of the earliest Middle English romances which incorporates hagiographic material, arguing that the poem’s philosophical and cultural context, represented by the emergence of voluntarism in fourteenth-century England, the Crusade concept, and the fixation of the matter of the Holy Land, affected its depiction of Isumbras’s dilemma and the role of emotions in his character development. The paper explicates how Sir…
The Artistic Representation of Trauma in Arabic Dystopian Literature
Dystopian literature authored by Arab novelists serves as a reflective medium that elucidates the traumatic experiences endured by individuals in the Arab world amidst on-going crises and conflicts. This article employs trauma theory to explore the complexities of establishing a dystopian text showing how trauma manifests within the unconscious layers of the human psyche, thus leaving an indelible scar that persists over time. The article argues …
Violence and Freedom in Isayama's Attack on Titan
This paper aims at providing a different understanding of violence as a productive force rather than a destructive force in Hajime Isayama's Attack on Titan animanga. Relying on Frantz Fanon's theory of revolutionary violence, Sigmund Freud's theory of aggression and violence, and James P. Sterba's just war theory, the paper shows that violence can be seen as a productive force, which is necessary for humans' survival, justice, freedom, and rebir…
The Effectiveness of Therapeutic Storytelling in Reducing the Symptoms of Body Dysmorphic Disorder Among Female Adolescents
This study aims at investigating the effectiveness of therapeutic storytelling in reducing body dysmorphic disorder symptoms among a sample of female adolescents in Irbid, Jordan. The study sample comprises 28 female adolescents who are randomly distributed into two equal groups, namely the experimental group and the control group. The experimental group ( N = 14) participated in the therapeutic storytelling program while the control group ( N = …
Teaching Guide for
Younes's Perplexing Hybridity in Khadra's What the Day Owes the Night
This study investigates the structure and reverberations of AlgerianFrench hybridity in Khadra's novel What the Day Owes the Night, as represented by Younes the protagonist. Being called Younes and Jonas, talking French and Arabic, living in Algerian Jnane Jatto and French Rio Salado, the protagonist is viewed here as an incarnation of hybridity practiced by some Algerians during French colonialism. We contend that such state of being does not ne…
The centrality of Medea in Gower’s ‘Tale of Jason and Medea’
Showcasing some examples of Gower’s artistic use of form to serve content, this article argues that the formalistic structure of ‘The Tale of Jason and Medea’ is a rhetorical means deployed by the poet to manage his narrative content and highlight its center. The article introduces Medea as the center of the tale under discussion providing a textual reading of the formalistic structure of the lines that are said by or about Medea. Acknowledging t…
Baba’s Death
This article discusses how nostalgia functions as a successful tool of resistance in The Map of Salt and Stars (2018). The article examines the representation of nostalgia of a displaced character called Nour emphasizing how weather and place shape her homesickness. It also investigates how the character copes with her nostalgic experience in an attempt to construct her shattered personality. We contend that there is a link between nostalgia, mem…
Contextualizing the Medieval Tradition of Courtly Love in Nabokov's Lolita
Using modern terms of morality to evaluate the sexual attitude of Humbert towards Lolita, which constitutes the central subject matter of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita (2005), most readers view the novel as erotica, a piece of literature that glamorizes amoral sexuality and rebels against humans' morality. This view feasibly condemns the sexual relationship between a forty-year-old male and a twelve-year-old girl-child nymphet; nevertheless, it overl…
Chaucer's gender‐oriented philosophy in The Canterbury Tales
The manipulation of gender in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is utterly opaque. While “The Knight's Tale” potentially entices readers to think that Chaucer defines a woman regarding her relationship to man, “The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale” suggests that the poet views a woman as an independent figure whose identity has nothing to do with man. This apparently controversial portrait of gender causes some critics to read Chaucer as a pro‐woman…
The Franco-Arab conflict of Balducci and Daru in Camus’s ‘The Guest
Albert Camus’s ‘The Guest’ ([1957] 2012) is a short narrative that displays several conflicts at the colonial, existential, psychological, and individual levels at once. The narrative introduces these conflicts through its simple plot that fully relies on the relationship between Daru (the schoolmaster), Balducci (the gendarme) and the Arab (the prisoner). Understanding the relationships between these three constitutes the foundation to decoding …
The Existential Manipulation of Freedom in Sartre's No Exit
Sartre's belief that God is dead does not imply that God has never existed or is not there now. It indicates that God does not have roles to play in people's lives, which generates and inspires humans' freedom and the consequent sense of responsibility. This unique association between the death of God, on the one hand, and freedom and responsibility, on the other, constitutes the spine of Sartre's No Exit (1989). Thus, this paper examines Sartre'…
The Party of Evil Genius in Orwell’s 1984
This paper explores the strategies of Evil Genius for manipulating people’s principles, thoughts, orientations, and ideologies in favor of promoting the logic of the party of Evil Genius, as found in Orwell’s 1984 (1949). Relying on Descartes’s definition of Evil Genius, we argue that the party in 1984 deploys the strategies of delusional propaganda, memory resetting, and doublethink to convince people of the significance of Big Brother for their…
The Death of God in Sartre's The Flies
The death of god, which refers to the absence of god's value, weight, significance, and role from people's life experience, is among the most dominant themes of existential literature, especially that of Sartre. It is heavily investigated in his theoretical as well as creative works, such as Being and Nothingness (1969) and The Flies (1989) as it constitutes the cornerstone of his philosophical views of Existentialism, nihilism, freedom, and resp…
John Gower's Moral Adaptation of Ovid's "Tale of Actaeon"
This paper argues that John Gower in his literary adaptations introduces strategic narrative changes that amount to more than being inferior approximations of the original classical "Tale of Actaeon". These changes, we claim, challenge the authority as well as the literary and cultural uniqueness of the classical sources he borrowed from. We discuss Gower's creative manipulation of his classical sources, specifically the differences between his a…
Chaucer's gender‐oriented philosophy in The Canterbury Tales
The manipulation of gender in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is utterly opaque. While “The Knight's Tale” potentially entices readers to think that Chaucer defines a woman regarding her relationship to man, “The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale” suggests that the poet views a woman as an independent figure whose identity has nothing to do with man. This apparently controversial portrait of gender causes some critics to read Chaucer as a pro‐woman…
John Gower's Moral Adaptation of Ovid's "Tale of Actaeon"
This paper argues that John Gower in his literary adaptations introduces strategic narrative changes that amount to more than being inferior approximations of the original classical "Tale of Actaeon". These changes, we claim, challenge the authority as well as the literary and cultural uniqueness of the classical sources he borrowed from. We discuss Gower's creative manipulation of his classical sources, specifically the differences between his a…
The Death of God in Sartre's The Flies
The death of god, which refers to the absence of god's value, weight, significance, and role from people's life experience, is among the most dominant themes of existential literature, especially that of Sartre. It is heavily investigated in his theoretical as well as creative works, such as Being and Nothingness (1969) and The Flies (1989) as it constitutes the cornerstone of his philosophical views of Existentialism, nihilism, freedom, and resp…
The Party of Evil Genius in Orwell’s 1984
This paper explores the strategies of Evil Genius for manipulating people’s principles, thoughts, orientations, and ideologies in favor of promoting the logic of the party of Evil Genius, as found in Orwell’s 1984 (1949). Relying on Descartes’s definition of Evil Genius, we argue that the party in 1984 deploys the strategies of delusional propaganda, memory resetting, and doublethink to convince people of the significance of Big Brother for their…
The Existential Manipulation of Freedom in Sartre's No Exit
Sartre's belief that God is dead does not imply that God has never existed or is not there now. It indicates that God does not have roles to play in people's lives, which generates and inspires humans' freedom and the consequent sense of responsibility. This unique association between the death of God, on the one hand, and freedom and responsibility, on the other, constitutes the spine of Sartre's No Exit (1989). Thus, this paper examines Sartre'…
Younes's Perplexing Hybridity in Khadra's What the Day Owes the Night
This study investigates the structure and reverberations of AlgerianFrench hybridity in Khadra's novel What the Day Owes the Night, as represented by Younes the protagonist. Being called Younes and Jonas, talking French and Arabic, living in Algerian Jnane Jatto and French Rio Salado, the protagonist is viewed here as an incarnation of hybridity practiced by some Algerians during French colonialism. We contend that such state of being does not ne…
The centrality of Medea in Gower’s ‘Tale of Jason and Medea’
Showcasing some examples of Gower’s artistic use of form to serve content, this article argues that the formalistic structure of ‘The Tale of Jason and Medea’ is a rhetorical means deployed by the poet to manage his narrative content and highlight its center. The article introduces Medea as the center of the tale under discussion providing a textual reading of the formalistic structure of the lines that are said by or about Medea. Acknowledging t…
Baba’s Death
This article discusses how nostalgia functions as a successful tool of resistance in The Map of Salt and Stars (2018). The article examines the representation of nostalgia of a displaced character called Nour emphasizing how weather and place shape her homesickness. It also investigates how the character copes with her nostalgic experience in an attempt to construct her shattered personality. We contend that there is a link between nostalgia, mem…
Contextualizing the Medieval Tradition of Courtly Love in Nabokov's Lolita
Using modern terms of morality to evaluate the sexual attitude of Humbert towards Lolita, which constitutes the central subject matter of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita (2005), most readers view the novel as erotica, a piece of literature that glamorizes amoral sexuality and rebels against humans' morality. This view feasibly condemns the sexual relationship between a forty-year-old male and a twelve-year-old girl-child nymphet; nevertheless, it overl…
Chaucer's gender‐oriented philosophy in The Canterbury Tales
The manipulation of gender in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is utterly opaque. While “The Knight's Tale” potentially entices readers to think that Chaucer defines a woman regarding her relationship to man, “The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale” suggests that the poet views a woman as an independent figure whose identity has nothing to do with man. This apparently controversial portrait of gender causes some critics to read Chaucer as a pro‐woman…
The Franco-Arab conflict of Balducci and Daru in Camus’s ‘The Guest
Albert Camus’s ‘The Guest’ ([1957] 2012) is a short narrative that displays several conflicts at the colonial, existential, psychological, and individual levels at once. The narrative introduces these conflicts through its simple plot that fully relies on the relationship between Daru (the schoolmaster), Balducci (the gendarme) and the Arab (the prisoner). Understanding the relationships between these three constitutes the foundation to decoding …
The Artistic Representation of Trauma in Arabic Dystopian Literature
Dystopian literature authored by Arab novelists serves as a reflective medium that elucidates the traumatic experiences endured by individuals in the Arab world amidst on-going crises and conflicts. This article employs trauma theory to explore the complexities of establishing a dystopian text showing how trauma manifests within the unconscious layers of the human psyche, thus leaving an indelible scar that persists over time. The article argues …
Violence and Freedom in Isayama's Attack on Titan
This paper aims at providing a different understanding of violence as a productive force rather than a destructive force in Hajime Isayama's Attack on Titan animanga. Relying on Frantz Fanon's theory of revolutionary violence, Sigmund Freud's theory of aggression and violence, and James P. Sterba's just war theory, the paper shows that violence can be seen as a productive force, which is necessary for humans' survival, justice, freedom, and rebir…
The Effectiveness of Therapeutic Storytelling in Reducing the Symptoms of Body Dysmorphic Disorder Among Female Adolescents
This study aims at investigating the effectiveness of therapeutic storytelling in reducing body dysmorphic disorder symptoms among a sample of female adolescents in Irbid, Jordan. The study sample comprises 28 female adolescents who are randomly distributed into two equal groups, namely the experimental group and the control group. The experimental group ( N = 14) participated in the therapeutic storytelling program while the control group ( N = …
Teaching Guide for
Chaucer's Experiments in dreaming in “the book of the Duchess”
Chaucer's “The Book of the Duchess” is usually read by critics as the poet's consolation to his patron, John of Gaunt, at the death of Blanche. They suggest that the poet's interest in talking face-to-face with Gaunt concerning the death of Blanche inspired the use of the poem's dream framework, thus contextualizing its consoling content. This view seems insightful; nonetheless, it restricts the poem's value to the poet's sociopolitical status in…
Optimistic meditations on Sartre's existentialism
In an attempt to highlight the optimism of Sartre's Existentialism, this paper investigates the two main fundamentals of existence, namely the Death of God and freedom, as articulated by Sartre in Existentialism is a Humanism (1946). The paper clarifies some misunderstandings concerning both concepts and their existential repercussions, arguing that Sartre's Existentialism is more optimistic than pessimistic due to the rational link between freed…
The Overlap of the Political and Emotional Discourse in Sir Isumbras
This paper reads Sir Isumbras, one of the earliest Middle English romances which incorporates hagiographic material, arguing that the poem’s philosophical and cultural context, represented by the emergence of voluntarism in fourteenth-century England, the Crusade concept, and the fixation of the matter of the Holy Land, affected its depiction of Isumbras’s dilemma and the role of emotions in his character development. The paper explicates how Sir…
Sanctuaries of Lust and Legacies of Dust in William Wells Brown's Clotel; or, The President's Daughter
William Wells Brown’s Clotel (1853) depicts the tragic experience of a family of biracial female slaves, viewing their familial separation and dehumanization in antebellum American South as a cross-generational struggle that cannot be dismissed when defining and contextualizing biracial identity in the cultural milieu of the nineteenth century. This historical-cultural context, we believe, represents the total value of Brown’s narrative, which ne…
Decoding the political allegory in the Syrian comedy al-Kherba
The Syrian television sitcom al-Kherba (‘the Ruin’, 2011-present) can be viewed as a political allegory that dramatises the authoritarian Ba’th regime in Syria (1971–2024). Analysing the village-setting and character dynamics in numerous scenes distributed throughout the entirety of the musalsal ’s 30 episodes, the paper argues that al-Kherba invites an allegorical reading of the humoristic discourse arising from the integration of sociopolitical…
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