Hiyem Cheurfa
Biographic Data
| ID | 253960 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hiyem Cheurfa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hiyem |
| FAMILY NAME | Cheurfa |
| SIGNATURE | CHEURFA H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6946-6392 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Arab Autographics
This essay traces the emergence of Arab auto/biographical comics as an important narrative form that is expanding the traditions of literary self-representation in contemporary Arab culture and argues that it needs to be critically situated as part of a larger corpus of Arab life writing. Relying on Gillian Whitlock’s concept of “autographics”, it surveys a range of non-fictional comics by Arab artists, from the region and in the diaspora, to inv…
Between Resurrection, Rejection, and Revision
Moroccan sociologist Fatima Mernissi was one of the foremost critics to examine the evolving perceptions and cultural representations of Scheherazade, the iconic storyteller from The Thousand and One Nights . Across different historical moments and cultural contexts, Scheherazade has come to symbolize the voice, resilience, and subversive power of the Arab/Muslim woman storyteller. For many Arab women writers, Scheherazade remains a powerful figu…
Contemporary Arab Women’s Life Writing and the Politics of Resistance
Interrogates the relationship between revolutionary movements and experimental life writing forms by contemporary Arab women Uniquely interrogates the interplay of power, gender, and resistance in life narratives by politically committed Arab women and explores the strategic function of non-fiction in articulating the role and position of women during crucial historial moments Offers a new understanding of Arab life writing as part of a cultural …
Daily Encounters
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…
When I Accept All Changes
This article examines the interface of forms of auto/biographical writing and literary criticism, and how postcolonial life writers draw attention to the exhaustion of the formal and structural conditions of the genre as conventionally established and understood. Looking at Palestinian author Sayed Kashua's Track Changes (2020), I investigate how life writers draw attention to issues involved in writing and reading auto/biography, such as form, t…
Testifying Graphically
This article reads the graphic account Baddawi by Palestinian American artist Leila Abdelrazaq as a narrative of bearing witness to a refugee childhood. It investigates the ways in which the word-image intersection of the comics form both enables and extends the politics of testimony in a Palestinian narrative that positions a child as its seeing subject
Comedic resilience
This article explores the potential strategic functions of humour in diaries that record national struggles by contemporary Arab women, namely Palestinian author Suad Amiry's Sharon and my Mother-in-Law: Ramallah Diaries (2006) and Egyptian writer Mona Prince's Revolution is my Name: an Egyptian Woman's Diary from Eighteen Days in Tahrir (2014). Drawing on existing research into postcolonial and feminist comedy, the article argues that the use of…
Tahia Abdel Nasser (2017). Literary Autobiography and Arab National Struggles
Autobiographical Identities in Contemporary Arab Culture
In her book, Autobiographical Identities in Contemporary Arab Culture (2014), Valerie Anishchenkova, associate professor and the director of the Arabic Programme and the Arabic Language Flagship Pr
Testifying Graphically
This article reads the graphic account Baddawi by Palestinian American artist Leila Abdelrazaq as a narrative of bearing witness to a refugee childhood. It investigates the ways in which the word-image intersection of the comics form both enables and extends the politics of testimony in a Palestinian narrative that positions a child as its seeing subject
Comedic resilience
This article explores the potential strategic functions of humour in diaries that record national struggles by contemporary Arab women, namely Palestinian author Suad Amiry's Sharon and my Mother-in-Law: Ramallah Diaries (2006) and Egyptian writer Mona Prince's Revolution is my Name: an Egyptian Woman's Diary from Eighteen Days in Tahrir (2014). Drawing on existing research into postcolonial and feminist comedy, the article argues that the use of…
Autobiographical Identities in Contemporary Arab Culture
In her book, Autobiographical Identities in Contemporary Arab Culture (2014), Valerie Anishchenkova, associate professor and the director of the Arabic Programme and the Arabic Language Flagship Pr
Tahia Abdel Nasser (2017). Literary Autobiography and Arab National Struggles
Comedic resilience
This article explores the potential strategic functions of humour in diaries that record national struggles by contemporary Arab women, namely Palestinian author Suad Amiry's Sharon and my Mother-in-Law: Ramallah Diaries (2006) and Egyptian writer Mona Prince's Revolution is my Name: an Egyptian Woman's Diary from Eighteen Days in Tahrir (2014). Drawing on existing research into postcolonial and feminist comedy, the article argues that the use of…
Testifying Graphically
This article reads the graphic account Baddawi by Palestinian American artist Leila Abdelrazaq as a narrative of bearing witness to a refugee childhood. It investigates the ways in which the word-image intersection of the comics form both enables and extends the politics of testimony in a Palestinian narrative that positions a child as its seeing subject
When I Accept All Changes
This article examines the interface of forms of auto/biographical writing and literary criticism, and how postcolonial life writers draw attention to the exhaustion of the formal and structural conditions of the genre as conventionally established and understood. Looking at Palestinian author Sayed Kashua's Track Changes (2020), I investigate how life writers draw attention to issues involved in writing and reading auto/biography, such as form, t…
Daily Encounters
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…
Contemporary Arab Women’s Life Writing and the Politics of Resistance
Interrogates the relationship between revolutionary movements and experimental life writing forms by contemporary Arab women Uniquely interrogates the interplay of power, gender, and resistance in life narratives by politically committed Arab women and explores the strategic function of non-fiction in articulating the role and position of women during crucial historial moments Offers a new understanding of Arab life writing as part of a cultural …
Between Resurrection, Rejection, and Revision
Moroccan sociologist Fatima Mernissi was one of the foremost critics to examine the evolving perceptions and cultural representations of Scheherazade, the iconic storyteller from The Thousand and One Nights . Across different historical moments and cultural contexts, Scheherazade has come to symbolize the voice, resilience, and subversive power of the Arab/Muslim woman storyteller. For many Arab women writers, Scheherazade remains a powerful figu…
Arab Autographics
This essay traces the emergence of Arab auto/biographical comics as an important narrative form that is expanding the traditions of literary self-representation in contemporary Arab culture and argues that it needs to be critically situated as part of a larger corpus of Arab life writing. Relying on Gillian Whitlock’s concept of “autographics”, it surveys a range of non-fictional comics by Arab artists, from the region and in the diaspora, to inv…
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