Touria Khannous
Biographic Data
| ID | 2089762 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Touria Khannous |
| GIVEN NAMES | Touria |
| FAMILY NAME | Khannous |
| SIGNATURE | KHANNOUS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Louisiana State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
In the Footsteps of Fatima Mernissi: Feminism in Mariam Touzani's Film Adam (2019)
s: Cet article examine le film Adam (2019) de Mariam Touzani à travers une synthèse théorique entre le féminisme décolonial de Fatima Mernissi et la théorie de l'hétérotopie spatiale de Michel Foucault. Je soutiens que le film articule une praxis féministe « glocale » — déconstruisant simultanément les structures patriarcales locales, reliant les critiques de Mernissi sur la Moudawana et la Qiwama tout en s'inscrivant dans les débats féministes t…
African Women’s Internet Discourses
Gender, violence and representation in three Algerian women's films
This article focuses on a feminist aesthetics of violence that distinguishes Algerian women filmmakers’ treatment of violence from that of earlier male filmmakers. Such feminist aesthetics reveal how questions of gender and nation have moved to the forefront of analyses of the roots and repercussions of institutionalised violence. Through their female protagonists, Yamina Bachir's Rachida (2002), Djamila Sahraoui's Barakat (2006) and Yema (2013) …
African Pasts, Presents, and Futures: Generational Shifts in African Women's Literature, Film, and Internet Discourse
African Pasts, Presents, and Futures: Generational Shifts in African Women's Literature, Film, and Internet Discourse, by Touria Khannous, provides a history of African women’s cultural production, as well as an alternative approach to the arguments that have traditionally dominated post-colonial studies in general, and African and gender studies in particular. It examines some of the more overarching questions that are prevalent in the works of …
Race in pre-Islamic poetry: The work of Antara Ibn Shaddad
This article examines Antara Ibn Shaddad's poetry in light of early Arab encounters with Black Africa. Prior to the invasion by the Christian state of Ethiopia in 525 AD, Arab traders had used Ethiopia as their starting point for trade, in both spices and slaves. Caravans moved from Hijaz (modern day Saudi Arabia) to Abyssinia (ancient Ethiopia). Pre-Islamic poet Antara Ibn Shaddad (525–615 B.C.), who was born to an Arab father and an Ethiopian s…
Virtual Gender: Moroccan and Saudi Women’s Cyberspace
This paper looks at how Arab Muslim feminists have deployed Facebook and blogging in recent years as a tool for networking with other feminists and forming different groups. It offers an analysis of the ways Muslim women in Morocco and Saudi Arabia converse online about issues of gender and Islam in the present globalized context. Their topics of discussion include their personal legal status, discourses on feminism, redefining gender roles, sexu…
Themes of female imprisonment and rebellion: M.A. Tazi's film Badis
This article explores the movie Badis, in which Tazi gives the audience his own representation of the complexity of Moroccan women's experience. The film highlights not only women's oppression under institutionalised male dominance, but also their liberation in terms of their pursuit of agency and self-definition. The article analyses the way the film makes space for women's agency and subjectivity, and the extent to which it refuses and subverts…
Race in pre-Islamic poetry: The work of Antara Ibn Shaddad
This article examines Antara Ibn Shaddad's poetry in light of early Arab encounters with Black Africa. Prior to the invasion by the Christian state of Ethiopia in 525 AD, Arab traders had used Ethiopia as their starting point for trade, in both spices and slaves. Caravans moved from Hijaz (modern day Saudi Arabia) to Abyssinia (ancient Ethiopia). Pre-Islamic poet Antara Ibn Shaddad (525–615 B.C.), who was born to an Arab father and an Ethiopian s…
African Pasts, Presents, and Futures: Generational Shifts in African Women's Literature, Film, and Internet Discourse
African Pasts, Presents, and Futures: Generational Shifts in African Women's Literature, Film, and Internet Discourse, by Touria Khannous, provides a history of African women’s cultural production, as well as an alternative approach to the arguments that have traditionally dominated post-colonial studies in general, and African and gender studies in particular. It examines some of the more overarching questions that are prevalent in the works of …
Themes of female imprisonment and rebellion: M.A. Tazi's film Badis
This article explores the movie Badis, in which Tazi gives the audience his own representation of the complexity of Moroccan women's experience. The film highlights not only women's oppression under institutionalised male dominance, but also their liberation in terms of their pursuit of agency and self-definition. The article analyses the way the film makes space for women's agency and subjectivity, and the extent to which it refuses and subverts…
Themes of female imprisonment and rebellion: M.A. Tazi's film Badis
This article explores the movie Badis, in which Tazi gives the audience his own representation of the complexity of Moroccan women's experience. The film highlights not only women's oppression under institutionalised male dominance, but also their liberation in terms of their pursuit of agency and self-definition. The article analyses the way the film makes space for women's agency and subjectivity, and the extent to which it refuses and subverts…
Virtual Gender: Moroccan and Saudi Women’s Cyberspace
This paper looks at how Arab Muslim feminists have deployed Facebook and blogging in recent years as a tool for networking with other feminists and forming different groups. It offers an analysis of the ways Muslim women in Morocco and Saudi Arabia converse online about issues of gender and Islam in the present globalized context. Their topics of discussion include their personal legal status, discourses on feminism, redefining gender roles, sexu…
Race in pre-Islamic poetry: The work of Antara Ibn Shaddad
This article examines Antara Ibn Shaddad's poetry in light of early Arab encounters with Black Africa. Prior to the invasion by the Christian state of Ethiopia in 525 AD, Arab traders had used Ethiopia as their starting point for trade, in both spices and slaves. Caravans moved from Hijaz (modern day Saudi Arabia) to Abyssinia (ancient Ethiopia). Pre-Islamic poet Antara Ibn Shaddad (525–615 B.C.), who was born to an Arab father and an Ethiopian s…
African Pasts, Presents, and Futures: Generational Shifts in African Women's Literature, Film, and Internet Discourse
African Pasts, Presents, and Futures: Generational Shifts in African Women's Literature, Film, and Internet Discourse, by Touria Khannous, provides a history of African women’s cultural production, as well as an alternative approach to the arguments that have traditionally dominated post-colonial studies in general, and African and gender studies in particular. It examines some of the more overarching questions that are prevalent in the works of …
Gender, violence and representation in three Algerian women's films
This article focuses on a feminist aesthetics of violence that distinguishes Algerian women filmmakers’ treatment of violence from that of earlier male filmmakers. Such feminist aesthetics reveal how questions of gender and nation have moved to the forefront of analyses of the roots and repercussions of institutionalised violence. Through their female protagonists, Yamina Bachir's Rachida (2002), Djamila Sahraoui's Barakat (2006) and Yema (2013) …
African Women’s Internet Discourses
In the Footsteps of Fatima Mernissi: Feminism in Mariam Touzani's Film Adam (2019)
s: Cet article examine le film Adam (2019) de Mariam Touzani à travers une synthèse théorique entre le féminisme décolonial de Fatima Mernissi et la théorie de l'hétérotopie spatiale de Michel Foucault. Je soutiens que le film articule une praxis féministe « glocale » — déconstruisant simultanément les structures patriarcales locales, reliant les critiques de Mernissi sur la Moudawana et la Qiwama tout en s'inscrivant dans les débats féministes t…
Sociology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Feminism (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Islam (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works)