H A M Nashef
Biographic Data
| ID | 32252 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H A M Nashef |
| GIVEN NAMES | H A M |
| FAMILY NAME | Nashef |
| SIGNATURE | NASHEF H A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University of Sharjah |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3547-0331 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Inhabiting a Comfortable Fiction of the Self
The identity of a person remains a social construct, multifaceted and continuously in the making. A life writer or autobiographer experiences the self from different angles: the social, historical
J M Coetzee’s ‘Jesus’ Trilogy
The 2019 novel by the South African-Australian Nobel laureate, J M Coetzee, The Death of Jesus, is a third book in a sequence that includes Jesus in its title; like its predecessors it follows the lives of a recently constructed family in the dystopian Spanish-speaking towns of Novilla and Estrella. The surreal trilogy, which began with The Childhood of Jesus (2013), and then The Schooldays of Jesus (2016), presents us with unreal worlds, leaving…
Against Stereotypical Representations
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Suppressed Nakba memories in Palestinian female narratives
Israeli officials have long denied that rape was used as an instrument of war against Palestinians. Most of the files relating to the expulsion of Palestinians during the Nakba in 1948 and its aftermath remain sealed in Israeli archives and have been reclassified as top secret. Palestinian oral narratives have long been considered a poor alternative to historical research based on archives or written texts. In addition, some of the narrative in m…
The right to narrate
Since the Intifada of 2000, living conditions in the Gaza Strip have progressively deteriorated, and when Hamas came to power in 2006–07, a complete blockade was enforced on the inhabitants by Egypt and Israel. In addition, five full-scale wars have been waged on the Strip. Despite these conditions, Gazans remain resilient, as evidenced by several recent cultural productions. This article analyses a number of films that endeavour to show the huma…
Coming of Age in Troubled Times
A dialogue beyond the nation-state
Even though postcolonial theory has helped in the critique of non-western texts and the rereading of literatures from earlier periods, it has for the most part failed to engage with the Arab region and its literatures, in spite of Edward Said's seminal book, Orientalism, which set in motion the academic discipline. Meanwhile, Robert Young argues postcolonial theory, since its inception, has been concerned with the politics of invisibility, strivi…
Ideal Cities - Marred Individuals
In the final pages of J. M. Coetzee's The Childhood of Jesus and José Saramago's A Caverna, the main protagonists flee to an unknown destination from their respective “utopias.” Both allegorical novels expose the ills of two guarded and structured communities. A Caverna, a parable of Plato's cave, depicts the story of the lives of 64-year-old Algor, a third-generation earthenware potter, and his family. When Algor is no longer able to sell his ea…
Homo Sacer Dwells in Saramago's Land of Exception
Giorgio Agamben defines the sacred man or Homo Sacer as one who is not worthy of sacrifice. Having lost all rights, the person is reduced to the non-human. In modern times, banishment or banning by the law occurs when a state of exception is sanctioned by a totalitarian supremacy that suspends judicial power. The state of exception does not lie within or outside the boundaries of the judicial order, but in a zone of indifference. The state of exc…
Challenging the myth of “a land without a people”
In his address at the Madrid Peace Conference, the Head of the Palestinian Delegation, Dr Haidar Abdul-Shafi challenged the persistent myth that has defined Palestinian existence for at least a century by saying: “For too long the Palestinian people have gone unheeded, silenced [...] we have been victimized by the myth of ‘a land without a people’” (Abd Al-Shafi, 1992: 133). Negation coupled with the trauma of the loss of territory has augmented …
Hello and Bonjour
Code switching is a practice exercised by multilingual speakers. Linguists define the term as the simultaneous use of more than one language. Code switching is prevalent in postcolonial countries in which the colonial language has continued to exist alongside the native language. In the past, code switching in the Arab world has been confined to those educated in the missionary schools set up by the colonial powers. However, with the changes of m…
Disconcerting Images
The changes that have been witnessed by media in the Arab world have redefined media's initial role as a source of information. With the advent of satellite television new realities, namely the dismantling of communication boundaries, have emerged. At first, such advancements posed a challenge to government bodies, specifically in the Arab region; however, the issue has been resolved in what has eventually resulted in government-controlled media,…
The blurring of boundaries
In her treatise on abjection, Julia Kristeva argues that the abject is located outside the self, remaining in a state of repulsion that threatens to destroy the self. Abject representations are prevalent in the way terrorists have been portrayed in the Western news media post-September 11, 2001. These images of abjection are problematic, as they consolidate the images we have seen in Hollywood films representing Arabs. Furthermore, these depictio…
The abject/the terrorist/the reel Arab – a point of intersection
Media representations of Arabs and terrorists
Becomings in J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians and José Saramago’s Blindness
A bestial life is turning me into a beast
The blurring of boundaries
In her treatise on abjection, Julia Kristeva argues that the abject is located outside the self, remaining in a state of repulsion that threatens to destroy the self. Abject representations are prevalent in the way terrorists have been portrayed in the Western news media post-September 11, 2001. These images of abjection are problematic, as they consolidate the images we have seen in Hollywood films representing Arabs. Furthermore, these depictio…
The right to narrate
Since the Intifada of 2000, living conditions in the Gaza Strip have progressively deteriorated, and when Hamas came to power in 2006–07, a complete blockade was enforced on the inhabitants by Egypt and Israel. In addition, five full-scale wars have been waged on the Strip. Despite these conditions, Gazans remain resilient, as evidenced by several recent cultural productions. This article analyses a number of films that endeavour to show the huma…
Ideal Cities - Marred Individuals
In the final pages of J. M. Coetzee's The Childhood of Jesus and José Saramago's A Caverna, the main protagonists flee to an unknown destination from their respective “utopias.” Both allegorical novels expose the ills of two guarded and structured communities. A Caverna, a parable of Plato's cave, depicts the story of the lives of 64-year-old Algor, a third-generation earthenware potter, and his family. When Algor is no longer able to sell his ea…
The abject/the terrorist/the reel Arab – a point of intersection
Media representations of Arabs and terrorists
Becomings in J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians and José Saramago’s Blindness
A bestial life is turning me into a beast
The blurring of boundaries
In her treatise on abjection, Julia Kristeva argues that the abject is located outside the self, remaining in a state of repulsion that threatens to destroy the self. Abject representations are prevalent in the way terrorists have been portrayed in the Western news media post-September 11, 2001. These images of abjection are problematic, as they consolidate the images we have seen in Hollywood films representing Arabs. Furthermore, these depictio…
The abject/the terrorist/the reel Arab – a point of intersection
Media representations of Arabs and terrorists
Disconcerting Images
The changes that have been witnessed by media in the Arab world have redefined media's initial role as a source of information. With the advent of satellite television new realities, namely the dismantling of communication boundaries, have emerged. At first, such advancements posed a challenge to government bodies, specifically in the Arab region; however, the issue has been resolved in what has eventually resulted in government-controlled media,…
Hello and Bonjour
Code switching is a practice exercised by multilingual speakers. Linguists define the term as the simultaneous use of more than one language. Code switching is prevalent in postcolonial countries in which the colonial language has continued to exist alongside the native language. In the past, code switching in the Arab world has been confined to those educated in the missionary schools set up by the colonial powers. However, with the changes of m…
Challenging the myth of “a land without a people”
In his address at the Madrid Peace Conference, the Head of the Palestinian Delegation, Dr Haidar Abdul-Shafi challenged the persistent myth that has defined Palestinian existence for at least a century by saying: “For too long the Palestinian people have gone unheeded, silenced [...] we have been victimized by the myth of ‘a land without a people’” (Abd Al-Shafi, 1992: 133). Negation coupled with the trauma of the loss of territory has augmented …
Ideal Cities - Marred Individuals
In the final pages of J. M. Coetzee's The Childhood of Jesus and José Saramago's A Caverna, the main protagonists flee to an unknown destination from their respective “utopias.” Both allegorical novels expose the ills of two guarded and structured communities. A Caverna, a parable of Plato's cave, depicts the story of the lives of 64-year-old Algor, a third-generation earthenware potter, and his family. When Algor is no longer able to sell his ea…
Homo Sacer Dwells in Saramago's Land of Exception
Giorgio Agamben defines the sacred man or Homo Sacer as one who is not worthy of sacrifice. Having lost all rights, the person is reduced to the non-human. In modern times, banishment or banning by the law occurs when a state of exception is sanctioned by a totalitarian supremacy that suspends judicial power. The state of exception does not lie within or outside the boundaries of the judicial order, but in a zone of indifference. The state of exc…
Coming of Age in Troubled Times
A dialogue beyond the nation-state
Even though postcolonial theory has helped in the critique of non-western texts and the rereading of literatures from earlier periods, it has for the most part failed to engage with the Arab region and its literatures, in spite of Edward Said's seminal book, Orientalism, which set in motion the academic discipline. Meanwhile, Robert Young argues postcolonial theory, since its inception, has been concerned with the politics of invisibility, strivi…
The right to narrate
Since the Intifada of 2000, living conditions in the Gaza Strip have progressively deteriorated, and when Hamas came to power in 2006–07, a complete blockade was enforced on the inhabitants by Egypt and Israel. In addition, five full-scale wars have been waged on the Strip. Despite these conditions, Gazans remain resilient, as evidenced by several recent cultural productions. This article analyses a number of films that endeavour to show the huma…
Against Stereotypical Representations
Preview this article: Against Stereotypical Representations, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/fint/20/4/fint.20.4.84_Nashef-1.gif
Suppressed Nakba memories in Palestinian female narratives
Israeli officials have long denied that rape was used as an instrument of war against Palestinians. Most of the files relating to the expulsion of Palestinians during the Nakba in 1948 and its aftermath remain sealed in Israeli archives and have been reclassified as top secret. Palestinian oral narratives have long been considered a poor alternative to historical research based on archives or written texts. In addition, some of the narrative in m…
J M Coetzee’s ‘Jesus’ Trilogy
The 2019 novel by the South African-Australian Nobel laureate, J M Coetzee, The Death of Jesus, is a third book in a sequence that includes Jesus in its title; like its predecessors it follows the lives of a recently constructed family in the dystopian Spanish-speaking towns of Novilla and Estrella. The surreal trilogy, which began with The Childhood of Jesus (2013), and then The Schooldays of Jesus (2016), presents us with unreal worlds, leaving…
Inhabiting a Comfortable Fiction of the Self
The identity of a person remains a social construct, multifaceted and continuously in the making. A life writer or autobiographer experiences the self from different angles: the social, historical
Art (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Political science (8 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Middle East Politics and Society (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works)