Yousef Abu Amrieh
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3088007 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Yousef Abu Amrieh |
| NOMBRES | Yousef Abu |
| APELLIDO | Amrieh |
| FIRMA | AMRIEH Y A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Jordan |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1443-7054 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 2 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
The Mediterranean as a cemetery in Omar El Akkad’s What Strange Paradise
This article examines Egyptian-Canadian novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad’s representations of the sufferings of refugees, asylum seekers and irregular migrants in What Strange Paradise (2021) as they perilously cross the Mediterranean en route to Fortress Europe. Moreover, this article explores the concept of ‘zoopolitics’, which serves both as a driving force and a consequence of the European Union’s border policies. This term encapsulates …
Destroyed houses as repositories of memories
Over the past half century, numerous Arab diasporic writers have depicted the detrimental impacts of civil wars on Arab nations as some individuals are (in)voluntarily displaced internally and externally, where they experience feelings of anxiety, unbelonging and loneliness. In most cases, they strive to reconstruct their own identities and their past through memories. The purpose of this paper is to examine Syrian novelist Shahla Ujayli’s female…
Biopolitical control and organic alternatives in Susan Abulhawa’s The Blue Between Sky and Water
This paper examines Susan Abulhawa’s The Blue Between Sky and Water (2015) in terms of its depiction of the deteriorating healthcare system in Gaza under Israeli control and the siege imposed since 2007. Through the lens of the critical medical humanities, the paper explores the novel’s indictment of systemic medical deprivation as a means of political domination. To achieve this purpose, the paper delves into narrative medicine’s depiction of pa…
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…
Food and Politics in Mahjoub’s The Fugitives
Food has been the object of examination in literature, and hence, the current study seeks to study the symbolic, cultural, and political significance of food in Arab-British Jamal Mahjoub’s The Fugitives (2021). In particular, this study shows that Mahjoub deploys culinary images to highlight how Rushdy, the protagonist, grows spiritually and intellectually in the course of the narrative by becoming increasingly aware of the significance of food …
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…
The Interpreter’s Identity as a Site of Contestation in Brežná’s The Thankless Foreigner and Lakhous’s Clash of Civilizations
The purpose of this paper is to investigate how fictional interpreters are represented in Slovak-Swiss novelist Irena Brežná’s The Thankless Foreigner (2012) and Algerian-Italian novelist Amara Lakhous’s Clash of Civilizations over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio (2008). Although Brežná’s narrator and Lakhous’s Amedeo work as interpreters, they take different positions with regard to key issues such as adopting a new language, changing one’s name …
Football and the quest for identity in Randa Jarrar’s A Map of Home
Verdant, Green, Lush
This paper aims to examine how the Arab-British novelist Leila Aboulela portrays the distinctive relationship between her protagonist, Akuany, and the Nile in her recent novel, River Spirit (2023), set during the Mahdist Revolution (1881–1898). This study employs the geocritical approach to examine the interaction between physical spaces and human experiences, highlighting how landscapes influence identity and memory. It analyzes the river not as…
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…
Virtual Bonds and Transformed Homes
Objective: This research aims to explore the significant impact of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) on literary representations of diasporic experiences, particularly focusing on its role in connecting immigrants worldwide. Methodology: The study employs an analytical approach to examine the influence of ICT on diasporic literature. Key Findings: The findings reveal that ICT has played a crucial role in reshaping the concept and por…
When the past repeats itself
This paper examines Lebanese-American novelist Rabih Alameddine's representations of the hardships and difficulties that refugee children encounter as they flee their homelands, sometimes as unaccompanied minors. Set on the Greek island of Lesbos during the 2015–2016 refugee crisis, Alameddine's The Wrong End of the Telescope (2021) depicts the sufferings of refugee children, and simultaneously draws on mythological events to underline their mise…
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 …
Statelessness and (il)legitimacy in Al Bassam’s Petrol Station and Shakespeare’s King Lear
The purpose of this paper is to investigate how Kuwaiti British playwright Sulayman Al Bassam’s Petrol Station (2017) draws on themes, tropes, and motifs from Shakespeare’s King Lear (1606) to dramatize the plight of stateless people worldwide. Al Bassam’s use of King Lear hinges on the fact that it is a play that depicts fraught family bonds against the backdrop of national concerns, a question that Petrol Station vividly dramatizes. First, both…
Watching Through a Frame
The purpose of this study is to examine the use of windows and balconies in Layla AlAmmar’s Silence Is A Sense (2021) and Rawi Hage’s Beirut Hellfire Society (2018). In these two works, written by diasporic Arab writers, the two literary motifs of the window and the balcony play a significant role in framing the political, social, and cultural conditions the characters live in. The two motifs have long been recurrent in literature, carrying a var…
Islamic identity and weather conditions in Leila Aboulela’s The Translator and The Kindness of Enemies
This study explores how Arab British novelist Leila Aboulela employs weather conditions in The Translator (1999) and The Kindness of Enemies (2015) to depict the Islamic identity construction of the characters of Sammar and Natasha in the two novels, respectively. It argues that in the fictional world Aboulela creates, weather conditions narrate the stories of her characters’ identity construction in diaspora. The study exemplifies how both Samma…
Ageing in faraway lands
This article examines the role of reminiscence and nostalgia in shaping the later life of Arab diasporic ageing characters in Arab-American novelists Susan Abulhawa’s The Blue Between Sky and Water (2016) and Laila Lalami’s The Other Americans (2019). It investigates the reminiscences of ageing immigrants in faraway lands and argues that dislocation urges nostalgic ageing characters to imaginatively reproduce their lost places. Hence, the study i…
“Things” and Recovery From Trauma in Joukhader’s A Map of Salt and Stars
The present article explores the impact of “Things” on the healing journeys of the characters in Syrian American author Jennifer Zeynab Joukhader’s novel A Map of Salt and Stars (2018). It highlights the role of certain “Things” in Nour’s family’s healing process from the traumatic experiences of the Syrian war. The article also sheds light on the war’s reshaping of the objects and the individuals’ relationship with them. The objects that this ar…
Youths and Political Allegory
This paper investigates Jordanian playwright Nader Omran’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. It examines Omran’s dramatization of the struggle of Arab youths in a region ruled by corrupt leaders. In particular, the paper focuses on how Omran transforms Shakespeare’s Ophelia into an assertive and dynamic character to reflect the contemporaneous circumstances and conditions of the Arab World in A Theatre Company Found a Theatre and Theatred Hamle…
Susan Abulhawa’s Appropriation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
The purpose of this article is to examine how Palestinian American novelist Susan Abulhawa appropriates in her novel The Blue between Sky and Water (2015) some of the themes, tropes and motifs that Shakespeare employs in Romeo and Juliet (c. 1596) in order to depict how wars and conflicts turn Palestinian people’s love stories/marriages into tragedies. In particular, love at first sight, the (negative) impact of families on love stories, exile/ba…
From “My Dovecote” to “My Building”
This paper aims at investigating how Arab American writer Randa Jarrar’s short story “The Story of My Building” (2016) appropriates events, themes, tropes and motifs employed by Russian writer Isaac Babel in his short story “The Story of My Dovecote” (1925) to portray the hard conditions and circumstances that Palestinians endure due to recurrent Israeli military attacks on the Gaza Strip. Jarrar’s story alludes to anti-Semitic violence, known as…
Photographs, Diaspora, and Identity
Hala Alyan is an Arab American novelist and poet. Besides The Arsonists’ City (2021), which will be examined in this paper, she has published a novel titled Salt Houses (2017) and four collections of poetry. This paper argues that Alyan’s novel shows how photographs help the protagonist, Ava, to re-discover her own identity and unveil a forty-year-old family secret. This goal will be achieved by drawing on Roland Barthes’s concepts of punctum and…
Ageing in faraway lands
This article examines the role of reminiscence and nostalgia in shaping the later life of Arab diasporic ageing characters in Arab-American novelists Susan Abulhawa’s The Blue Between Sky and Water (2016) and Laila Lalami’s The Other Americans (2019). It investigates the reminiscences of ageing immigrants in faraway lands and argues that dislocation urges nostalgic ageing characters to imaginatively reproduce their lost places. Hence, the study i…
Photographs, Diaspora, and Identity
Hala Alyan is an Arab American novelist and poet. Besides The Arsonists’ City (2021), which will be examined in this paper, she has published a novel titled Salt Houses (2017) and four collections of poetry. This paper argues that Alyan’s novel shows how photographs help the protagonist, Ava, to re-discover her own identity and unveil a forty-year-old family secret. This goal will be achieved by drawing on Roland Barthes’s concepts of punctum and…
“Things” and Recovery From Trauma in Joukhader’s A Map of Salt and Stars
The present article explores the impact of “Things” on the healing journeys of the characters in Syrian American author Jennifer Zeynab Joukhader’s novel A Map of Salt and Stars (2018). It highlights the role of certain “Things” in Nour’s family’s healing process from the traumatic experiences of the Syrian war. The article also sheds light on the war’s reshaping of the objects and the individuals’ relationship with them. The objects that this ar…
Youths and Political Allegory
This paper investigates Jordanian playwright Nader Omran’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. It examines Omran’s dramatization of the struggle of Arab youths in a region ruled by corrupt leaders. In particular, the paper focuses on how Omran transforms Shakespeare’s Ophelia into an assertive and dynamic character to reflect the contemporaneous circumstances and conditions of the Arab World in A Theatre Company Found a Theatre and Theatred Hamle…
Susan Abulhawa’s Appropriation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
The purpose of this article is to examine how Palestinian American novelist Susan Abulhawa appropriates in her novel The Blue between Sky and Water (2015) some of the themes, tropes and motifs that Shakespeare employs in Romeo and Juliet (c. 1596) in order to depict how wars and conflicts turn Palestinian people’s love stories/marriages into tragedies. In particular, love at first sight, the (negative) impact of families on love stories, exile/ba…
From “My Dovecote” to “My Building”
This paper aims at investigating how Arab American writer Randa Jarrar’s short story “The Story of My Building” (2016) appropriates events, themes, tropes and motifs employed by Russian writer Isaac Babel in his short story “The Story of My Dovecote” (1925) to portray the hard conditions and circumstances that Palestinians endure due to recurrent Israeli military attacks on the Gaza Strip. Jarrar’s story alludes to anti-Semitic violence, known as…
Photographs, Diaspora, and Identity
Hala Alyan is an Arab American novelist and poet. Besides The Arsonists’ City (2021), which will be examined in this paper, she has published a novel titled Salt Houses (2017) and four collections of poetry. This paper argues that Alyan’s novel shows how photographs help the protagonist, Ava, to re-discover her own identity and unveil a forty-year-old family secret. This goal will be achieved by drawing on Roland Barthes’s concepts of punctum and…
Statelessness and (il)legitimacy in Al Bassam’s Petrol Station and Shakespeare’s King Lear
The purpose of this paper is to investigate how Kuwaiti British playwright Sulayman Al Bassam’s Petrol Station (2017) draws on themes, tropes, and motifs from Shakespeare’s King Lear (1606) to dramatize the plight of stateless people worldwide. Al Bassam’s use of King Lear hinges on the fact that it is a play that depicts fraught family bonds against the backdrop of national concerns, a question that Petrol Station vividly dramatizes. First, both…
Watching Through a Frame
The purpose of this study is to examine the use of windows and balconies in Layla AlAmmar’s Silence Is A Sense (2021) and Rawi Hage’s Beirut Hellfire Society (2018). In these two works, written by diasporic Arab writers, the two literary motifs of the window and the balcony play a significant role in framing the political, social, and cultural conditions the characters live in. The two motifs have long been recurrent in literature, carrying a var…
Islamic identity and weather conditions in Leila Aboulela’s The Translator and The Kindness of Enemies
This study explores how Arab British novelist Leila Aboulela employs weather conditions in The Translator (1999) and The Kindness of Enemies (2015) to depict the Islamic identity construction of the characters of Sammar and Natasha in the two novels, respectively. It argues that in the fictional world Aboulela creates, weather conditions narrate the stories of her characters’ identity construction in diaspora. The study exemplifies how both Samma…
Ageing in faraway lands
This article examines the role of reminiscence and nostalgia in shaping the later life of Arab diasporic ageing characters in Arab-American novelists Susan Abulhawa’s The Blue Between Sky and Water (2016) and Laila Lalami’s The Other Americans (2019). It investigates the reminiscences of ageing immigrants in faraway lands and argues that dislocation urges nostalgic ageing characters to imaginatively reproduce their lost places. Hence, the study i…
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…
Virtual Bonds and Transformed Homes
Objective: This research aims to explore the significant impact of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) on literary representations of diasporic experiences, particularly focusing on its role in connecting immigrants worldwide. Methodology: The study employs an analytical approach to examine the influence of ICT on diasporic literature. Key Findings: The findings reveal that ICT has played a crucial role in reshaping the concept and por…
When the past repeats itself
This paper examines Lebanese-American novelist Rabih Alameddine's representations of the hardships and difficulties that refugee children encounter as they flee their homelands, sometimes as unaccompanied minors. Set on the Greek island of Lesbos during the 2015–2016 refugee crisis, Alameddine's The Wrong End of the Telescope (2021) depicts the sufferings of refugee children, and simultaneously draws on mythological events to underline their mise…
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…
Food and Politics in Mahjoub’s The Fugitives
Food has been the object of examination in literature, and hence, the current study seeks to study the symbolic, cultural, and political significance of food in Arab-British Jamal Mahjoub’s The Fugitives (2021). In particular, this study shows that Mahjoub deploys culinary images to highlight how Rushdy, the protagonist, grows spiritually and intellectually in the course of the narrative by becoming increasingly aware of the significance of food …
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…
The Interpreter’s Identity as a Site of Contestation in Brežná’s The Thankless Foreigner and Lakhous’s Clash of Civilizations
The purpose of this paper is to investigate how fictional interpreters are represented in Slovak-Swiss novelist Irena Brežná’s The Thankless Foreigner (2012) and Algerian-Italian novelist Amara Lakhous’s Clash of Civilizations over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio (2008). Although Brežná’s narrator and Lakhous’s Amedeo work as interpreters, they take different positions with regard to key issues such as adopting a new language, changing one’s name …
Football and the quest for identity in Randa Jarrar’s A Map of Home
Verdant, Green, Lush
This paper aims to examine how the Arab-British novelist Leila Aboulela portrays the distinctive relationship between her protagonist, Akuany, and the Nile in her recent novel, River Spirit (2023), set during the Mahdist Revolution (1881–1898). This study employs the geocritical approach to examine the interaction between physical spaces and human experiences, highlighting how landscapes influence identity and memory. It analyzes the river not as…
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…
The Mediterranean as a cemetery in Omar El Akkad’s What Strange Paradise
This article examines Egyptian-Canadian novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad’s representations of the sufferings of refugees, asylum seekers and irregular migrants in What Strange Paradise (2021) as they perilously cross the Mediterranean en route to Fortress Europe. Moreover, this article explores the concept of ‘zoopolitics’, which serves both as a driving force and a consequence of the European Union’s border policies. This term encapsulates …
Destroyed houses as repositories of memories
Over the past half century, numerous Arab diasporic writers have depicted the detrimental impacts of civil wars on Arab nations as some individuals are (in)voluntarily displaced internally and externally, where they experience feelings of anxiety, unbelonging and loneliness. In most cases, they strive to reconstruct their own identities and their past through memories. The purpose of this paper is to examine Syrian novelist Shahla Ujayli’s female…
Biopolitical control and organic alternatives in Susan Abulhawa’s The Blue Between Sky and Water
This paper examines Susan Abulhawa’s The Blue Between Sky and Water (2015) in terms of its depiction of the deteriorating healthcare system in Gaza under Israeli control and the siege imposed since 2007. Through the lens of the critical medical humanities, the paper explores the novel’s indictment of systemic medical deprivation as a means of political domination. To achieve this purpose, the paper delves into narrative medicine’s depiction of pa…
Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (12 obras) · Sociology (12 obras) · Art (11 obras) · History (11 obras) · Middle East Politics and Society (10 obras) · Literature (9 obras) · Aesthetics (8 obras) · Gender Studies (7 obras) · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts (7 obras) · Diaspora (6 obras)