Nadia Bou Ali
Biographic Data
| ID | 2821395 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nadia Bou Ali |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nadia Bou |
| FAMILY NAME | Ali |
| SIGNATURE | ALI N B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Russian State Agrarian Correspondence University |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-1471-7076 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Tourism frontier: A space of opportunity and disenchantment in Hunza, Gilgit-Baltistan
This article conceptualises the notion of “tourism frontier” by examining tourism expansion in the Hunza district in Gilgit-Baltistan—a geopolitically contested territory within the India-Pakistan conflict over Kashmir. Drawing on frontier and critical tourism literature and informed by extensive qualitative field research—including participant observations, in-depth interviews, focus group discussions and policy analysis—this article develops a …
The Visual Arts of Umayyad Syria
In the seventh century, an early Islamic power established the center of its empire in Syria (modern-day Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel/Palestine). There, the Umayyads—the first dynasty of Islam (661–750)—came into contact with vibrant artistic traditions comprising Hellenistic, Roman, Parthian, Christian, and Jewish art forms. This chapter studies some aspects of early Islamic artistic culture in Syria and its relationship to late antiquity. The…
From Khalisa Sarkar land to land reforms: Legal liminality, state control, and resistance in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
This article examines the evolution of the Khalisa Sarkar (state-owned) land framework to analyse frontier-territorialisation in Gilgit-Baltistan, a geopolitically contested region within the India–Pakistan Kashmir conflict. The Khalisa land framework, reclassified communal lands (Shamilaat-e-Deh) as state property, dispossessing local communities of ownership and use rights. Drawing on qualitative fieldwork, this article traces the framework’s t…
The Politics of Mourning and Melancholia
This article points to the limits of a politics of mourning and melancholia while engaging with the works of Gillian Rose and Judith Butler via the psychoanalytic concept of the death drive. The aim of the article is to argue that the way to overcome the current impasse in a critical theory is by reinsisting on the importance of the psychoanalytic concepts of life and death against vitalist politics of affirmation. Critical theory cannot deny neg…
Trees and the Desire for Affinity
Against Zionist Psychoanalysis: Conversations between the Sword and the Neck: Lara Sheehi and Stephen Sheehi, Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine
The Double Disavowals of Theory's “Problem Spaces”: Review of Revolution and Disenchantment
The review article provides a critical engagement with Fadi A. Bardawil's Revolution and Disenchantment. Bardawil's historical ethnographic research claims to provide an account of the failures of Marxism in the Levant. The review proposes that Bardawil's theoretical and intellectual commitments may have resulted in projecting failure retroactively on an entire field of theory, Marxism, thereby foreclosing a critical engagement with concepts in r…
Arab Marxism and National Liberation: Selected Writings of Mahdi Amel
The article reviews the recently published volume, Arab Marxism and National Liberation: Selected Writings of Mahdi Amel, edited by Hicham Safieddine, translated by Angela Giordano. The focus of the review is to argue that Amel’s Marxian analysis is reducible neither to the project of National Liberation, nor to theories of uneven development, but has to be considered in relation to the influences of 20th century French epistemology and structura…
Edward Said, Michel Foucault, and the Prison-House of Ideology
Psychoanalysis and the Love of Arabic: Hall of Mirrors
Explores the formation of a modern Arab identity through the conceptions of politics, morality and language in Arab thoughtIt is the first psychoanalytic reading of Ahmad Faris Shidyaq's Leg Over Leg (1855), one of the foundational texts of modern Arabic literatureThe book investigates the modern love for Arabic through the psychoanalytic understanding of the subject of the unconscious, one that is divided by language, desire, and enjoymentThe bo…
Mahdi Amel’s Colonial Mode of Production and Politics in the Last Instance
The article discusses Lebanese Marxist philosopher Mahdi Amel’s formulation of the concept of “colonial mode of production” as a differential mode from capitalism that is linked to it through “structural causality.” Amel theorized the colonial mode of production as a singular mode that was seen to be specific to some social formations like Lebanon, Algeria, and Egypt. The article draws out the Althusserian influences in Amel’s theoretical work an…
Lacan Contra Foucault: Subjectivity, Sex, and Politics
Lacan Contra Foucault seeks to ground the divergences and confluences between these two key thinkers in relation to contemporary philosophy and criticism. Specifically the topics of sexuality, the theory of the subject, history and historicism, scientific formalization, and ultimately politics. In doing so, the authors in this volume open up new connections between Lacan and Foucault and shine a light on their contemporary relevance to politics a…
Blesseth Him That Gives and Not Him That Takes: Buṭrus Al-Bustānī and the Mercy of Debt
This article discusses Nahda intellectual Buṭrus al-Bustānī’s public and pedagogic writings. It focuses on the nationalist pamphlets, the Nafīr Sūrriya , written in the wake of the first sectarian–civil war, and his translation of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe , both published in Beirut in 1860. I analyze Bustānī’s politico-theological and economic thought by looking at the nexus of debt, guilt, love, and mercy that he draws out in the Nafīr . The arti…
The royal veil: Early Islamic figural art and theBilderverbotreconsidered
The essay questions the Bilderverbot in early Islam by looking at the contrast established in the scholarship between the strict opposition to iconic theology found either in Muslim religious spaces or in the normative texts (hadith) and the use of figural images in the 8th-century palaces built in the Syrian steppe by the Umayyads. In the first part of this essay, I shall examine how the production of figurative images for the Umayyad palaces wa…
Psychology students’ perception of and engagement with feedback as a function of year of study
Undergraduate students’ perception of feedback and level of engagement with the feedback they receive have gained increasing attention in the educational literature recently to identify areas which require educators’ attention. However, research in this area has generally been based on limited self-selecting samples, and has not considered how students’ relationship with feedback may alter depending on their year of study. To address this, a surv…
Buṭrus al-Bustānī and the Shipwreck of the Nation
During the outbreak of violence and civil war in 1860 Mount Lebanon, Buṭrus al-Bustānī (1819–1883) in a series of political pamphlets entitled Nafīr Sūriyya painted an image of an imaginary nation that was meant to be the cure for this social crisis. He also translated the story of Robinson Crusoe during these times and proposed it as an allegory for the instruction of society. This article analyzes Bustānī's allegorical use of Robinson Crusoe fo…
Pour une étude globale de l’iconographie des omeyyades de Syrie et d’Espagne (VIII-XIe): Le cas des calendriers et des thèmes agricoles
Pour une étude globale de l’iconographie des omeyyades de Syrie et d’Espagne (VIII-XIe): le cas des calendriers et des thèmes agricoles
Before Friday
The translation into Arabic of Robinson Crusoe by Butrus al-Bustāni, a leading figure of al-Nahḍa al- c Arabiyya – commonly referred to as the Arab Awakening – opens up the question of incommensurable and indeterminate relations between an original text and its errancy, the fraught desires of communication and the dismal relationship between language and history, as well as between language and nation
The royal veil: Early Islamic figural art and theBilderverbotreconsidered
The essay questions the Bilderverbot in early Islam by looking at the contrast established in the scholarship between the strict opposition to iconic theology found either in Muslim religious spaces or in the normative texts (hadith) and the use of figural images in the 8th-century palaces built in the Syrian steppe by the Umayyads. In the first part of this essay, I shall examine how the production of figurative images for the Umayyad palaces wa…
From Khalisa Sarkar land to land reforms: Legal liminality, state control, and resistance in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
This article examines the evolution of the Khalisa Sarkar (state-owned) land framework to analyse frontier-territorialisation in Gilgit-Baltistan, a geopolitically contested region within the India–Pakistan Kashmir conflict. The Khalisa land framework, reclassified communal lands (Shamilaat-e-Deh) as state property, dispossessing local communities of ownership and use rights. Drawing on qualitative fieldwork, this article traces the framework’s t…
Mahdi Amel’s Colonial Mode of Production and Politics in the Last Instance
The article discusses Lebanese Marxist philosopher Mahdi Amel’s formulation of the concept of “colonial mode of production” as a differential mode from capitalism that is linked to it through “structural causality.” Amel theorized the colonial mode of production as a singular mode that was seen to be specific to some social formations like Lebanon, Algeria, and Egypt. The article draws out the Althusserian influences in Amel’s theoretical work an…
Blesseth Him That Gives and Not Him That Takes: Buṭrus Al-Bustānī and the Mercy of Debt
This article discusses Nahda intellectual Buṭrus al-Bustānī’s public and pedagogic writings. It focuses on the nationalist pamphlets, the Nafīr Sūrriya , written in the wake of the first sectarian–civil war, and his translation of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe , both published in Beirut in 1860. I analyze Bustānī’s politico-theological and economic thought by looking at the nexus of debt, guilt, love, and mercy that he draws out in the Nafīr . The arti…
Before Friday
The translation into Arabic of Robinson Crusoe by Butrus al-Bustāni, a leading figure of al-Nahḍa al- c Arabiyya – commonly referred to as the Arab Awakening – opens up the question of incommensurable and indeterminate relations between an original text and its errancy, the fraught desires of communication and the dismal relationship between language and history, as well as between language and nation
Buṭrus al-Bustānī and the Shipwreck of the Nation
During the outbreak of violence and civil war in 1860 Mount Lebanon, Buṭrus al-Bustānī (1819–1883) in a series of political pamphlets entitled Nafīr Sūriyya painted an image of an imaginary nation that was meant to be the cure for this social crisis. He also translated the story of Robinson Crusoe during these times and proposed it as an allegory for the instruction of society. This article analyzes Bustānī's allegorical use of Robinson Crusoe fo…
Pour une étude globale de l’iconographie des omeyyades de Syrie et d’Espagne (VIII-XIe): Le cas des calendriers et des thèmes agricoles
Pour une étude globale de l’iconographie des omeyyades de Syrie et d’Espagne (VIII-XIe): le cas des calendriers et des thèmes agricoles
Psychology students’ perception of and engagement with feedback as a function of year of study
Undergraduate students’ perception of feedback and level of engagement with the feedback they receive have gained increasing attention in the educational literature recently to identify areas which require educators’ attention. However, research in this area has generally been based on limited self-selecting samples, and has not considered how students’ relationship with feedback may alter depending on their year of study. To address this, a surv…
Blesseth Him That Gives and Not Him That Takes: Buṭrus Al-Bustānī and the Mercy of Debt
This article discusses Nahda intellectual Buṭrus al-Bustānī’s public and pedagogic writings. It focuses on the nationalist pamphlets, the Nafīr Sūrriya , written in the wake of the first sectarian–civil war, and his translation of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe , both published in Beirut in 1860. I analyze Bustānī’s politico-theological and economic thought by looking at the nexus of debt, guilt, love, and mercy that he draws out in the Nafīr . The arti…
The royal veil: Early Islamic figural art and theBilderverbotreconsidered
The essay questions the Bilderverbot in early Islam by looking at the contrast established in the scholarship between the strict opposition to iconic theology found either in Muslim religious spaces or in the normative texts (hadith) and the use of figural images in the 8th-century palaces built in the Syrian steppe by the Umayyads. In the first part of this essay, I shall examine how the production of figurative images for the Umayyad palaces wa…
Lacan Contra Foucault: Subjectivity, Sex, and Politics
Lacan Contra Foucault seeks to ground the divergences and confluences between these two key thinkers in relation to contemporary philosophy and criticism. Specifically the topics of sexuality, the theory of the subject, history and historicism, scientific formalization, and ultimately politics. In doing so, the authors in this volume open up new connections between Lacan and Foucault and shine a light on their contemporary relevance to politics a…
Psychoanalysis and the Love of Arabic: Hall of Mirrors
Explores the formation of a modern Arab identity through the conceptions of politics, morality and language in Arab thoughtIt is the first psychoanalytic reading of Ahmad Faris Shidyaq's Leg Over Leg (1855), one of the foundational texts of modern Arabic literatureThe book investigates the modern love for Arabic through the psychoanalytic understanding of the subject of the unconscious, one that is divided by language, desire, and enjoymentThe bo…
Mahdi Amel’s Colonial Mode of Production and Politics in the Last Instance
The article discusses Lebanese Marxist philosopher Mahdi Amel’s formulation of the concept of “colonial mode of production” as a differential mode from capitalism that is linked to it through “structural causality.” Amel theorized the colonial mode of production as a singular mode that was seen to be specific to some social formations like Lebanon, Algeria, and Egypt. The article draws out the Althusserian influences in Amel’s theoretical work an…
Edward Said, Michel Foucault, and the Prison-House of Ideology
Arab Marxism and National Liberation: Selected Writings of Mahdi Amel
The article reviews the recently published volume, Arab Marxism and National Liberation: Selected Writings of Mahdi Amel, edited by Hicham Safieddine, translated by Angela Giordano. The focus of the review is to argue that Amel’s Marxian analysis is reducible neither to the project of National Liberation, nor to theories of uneven development, but has to be considered in relation to the influences of 20th century French epistemology and structura…
Against Zionist Psychoanalysis: Conversations between the Sword and the Neck: Lara Sheehi and Stephen Sheehi, Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine
The Double Disavowals of Theory's “Problem Spaces”: Review of Revolution and Disenchantment
The review article provides a critical engagement with Fadi A. Bardawil's Revolution and Disenchantment. Bardawil's historical ethnographic research claims to provide an account of the failures of Marxism in the Levant. The review proposes that Bardawil's theoretical and intellectual commitments may have resulted in projecting failure retroactively on an entire field of theory, Marxism, thereby foreclosing a critical engagement with concepts in r…
The Visual Arts of Umayyad Syria
In the seventh century, an early Islamic power established the center of its empire in Syria (modern-day Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel/Palestine). There, the Umayyads—the first dynasty of Islam (661–750)—came into contact with vibrant artistic traditions comprising Hellenistic, Roman, Parthian, Christian, and Jewish art forms. This chapter studies some aspects of early Islamic artistic culture in Syria and its relationship to late antiquity. The…
From Khalisa Sarkar land to land reforms: Legal liminality, state control, and resistance in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
This article examines the evolution of the Khalisa Sarkar (state-owned) land framework to analyse frontier-territorialisation in Gilgit-Baltistan, a geopolitically contested region within the India–Pakistan Kashmir conflict. The Khalisa land framework, reclassified communal lands (Shamilaat-e-Deh) as state property, dispossessing local communities of ownership and use rights. Drawing on qualitative fieldwork, this article traces the framework’s t…
The Politics of Mourning and Melancholia
This article points to the limits of a politics of mourning and melancholia while engaging with the works of Gillian Rose and Judith Butler via the psychoanalytic concept of the death drive. The aim of the article is to argue that the way to overcome the current impasse in a critical theory is by reinsisting on the importance of the psychoanalytic concepts of life and death against vitalist politics of affirmation. Critical theory cannot deny neg…
Trees and the Desire for Affinity
Tourism frontier: A space of opportunity and disenchantment in Hunza, Gilgit-Baltistan
This article conceptualises the notion of “tourism frontier” by examining tourism expansion in the Hunza district in Gilgit-Baltistan—a geopolitically contested territory within the India-Pakistan conflict over Kashmir. Drawing on frontier and critical tourism literature and informed by extensive qualitative field research—including participant observations, in-depth interviews, focus group discussions and policy analysis—this article develops a …
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