Ahmed Shalabi
Biographic Data
| ID | 3088006 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ahmed Shalabi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ahmed |
| FAMILY NAME | Shalabi |
| SIGNATURE | SHALABI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Al-Ahliyya Amman University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1950-6143 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Decolonizing George William Joy’s General Gordon’s Last Stand in Aboulela’s River Spirit
In Leeds City Art Gallery, visitors can see George William Joy’s painting General Gordon’s Last Stand (1893). The painting, which depicts the last moments of the life of General Charles George Gordon, the Governor-General of Sudan who was killed during the Mahdist Revolution in 1885, stirred the British public’s and government’s sense of vengeance because it depicts the “savagery” of the crawling native and the “heroic” end of one of the carriers…
A Tale of Two Houses
The purpose of this paper is to examine how Palestinian-British novelist Isabella Hammad’s Enter Ghost (2023) appropriates Shakespeare’s Hamlet since it narrates the story of a Palestinian theatrical troupe who are trying to put on a performance of Shakespeare’s tragedy in the West Bank city of Ramallah. While Hammad draws on themes, motifs, and tropes that the Bard employs in his play, such as betrayal, spying, disorder, and armed conflicts amon…
Rawi Hage's Cockroach and Laila Lalami's The Other Americans
The East–West encounter in the twenty-first century is a major theme in the works of contemporary Anglophone Arab diasporic writers. However, unlike some Arab intellectuals and writers of the previous centuries whose accounts hyperbolically praised Western lifestyles and cultures, twenty-first-century Anglophone Arab diasporic writers draw a different image of the Occident. We argue that their texts tend to restructure Arab people’s inherited gla…
Jamal Mahjoub’s The Fugitives and Hala Alyan’s The Arsonists’ City
Contemporary Anglophone diasporic Arab writers have initiated an “Occidentalist discourse” through which they depict a complete image of the Occident. Their narratives are not meant to distort or misrepresent the “other”, but to provide the reader with nuanced accounts about what an Arab immigrant/ refugee may experience in the “West”. These narratives are deemed consistent because contemporary Anglophone diasporic Arab writers have become part o…
Occidentalism Revisited
Occidentalism has traditionally been regarded as a theoretical perspective through which the Arab “self” represents the Western “other.” Scholars who have made critical and insightful contributions to the development of the concept of Occidentalism within Arab literary traditions include Hasan Hanafi, Rasheed El-Enany, Zahia Smail Salhi, and most recently, Ahmed Shalabi and Yousef Abu Amrieh. Shalabi and Abu Amrieh have proposed a new definition …
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Jamal Mahjoub’s The Fugitives and Hala Alyan’s The Arsonists’ City
Contemporary Anglophone diasporic Arab writers have initiated an “Occidentalist discourse” through which they depict a complete image of the Occident. Their narratives are not meant to distort or misrepresent the “other”, but to provide the reader with nuanced accounts about what an Arab immigrant/ refugee may experience in the “West”. These narratives are deemed consistent because contemporary Anglophone diasporic Arab writers have become part o…
Occidentalism Revisited
Occidentalism has traditionally been regarded as a theoretical perspective through which the Arab “self” represents the Western “other.” Scholars who have made critical and insightful contributions to the development of the concept of Occidentalism within Arab literary traditions include Hasan Hanafi, Rasheed El-Enany, Zahia Smail Salhi, and most recently, Ahmed Shalabi and Yousef Abu Amrieh. Shalabi and Abu Amrieh have proposed a new definition …
Decolonizing George William Joy’s General Gordon’s Last Stand in Aboulela’s River Spirit
In Leeds City Art Gallery, visitors can see George William Joy’s painting General Gordon’s Last Stand (1893). The painting, which depicts the last moments of the life of General Charles George Gordon, the Governor-General of Sudan who was killed during the Mahdist Revolution in 1885, stirred the British public’s and government’s sense of vengeance because it depicts the “savagery” of the crawling native and the “heroic” end of one of the carriers…
A Tale of Two Houses
The purpose of this paper is to examine how Palestinian-British novelist Isabella Hammad’s Enter Ghost (2023) appropriates Shakespeare’s Hamlet since it narrates the story of a Palestinian theatrical troupe who are trying to put on a performance of Shakespeare’s tragedy in the West Bank city of Ramallah. While Hammad draws on themes, motifs, and tropes that the Bard employs in his play, such as betrayal, spying, disorder, and armed conflicts amon…
Rawi Hage's Cockroach and Laila Lalami's The Other Americans
The East–West encounter in the twenty-first century is a major theme in the works of contemporary Anglophone Arab diasporic writers. However, unlike some Arab intellectuals and writers of the previous centuries whose accounts hyperbolically praised Western lifestyles and cultures, twenty-first-century Anglophone Arab diasporic writers draw a different image of the Occident. We argue that their texts tend to restructure Arab people’s inherited gla…
Narrative (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Immigration (2 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Orientalism (2 works) · Refugee (2 works)