Luma Balaa
Biographic Data
| ID | 352546 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luma Balaa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luma |
| FAMILY NAME | Balaa |
| SIGNATURE | BALAA L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lebanese American University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5557-3012 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Lebanese Subversive Folktales
Najla Jraissaty compiled stories that were orally narrated by Lebanese women to children and other women. This article focuses on telling tales as an oral performance and how these storytellers narrated tales featuring resilient, intelligent, powerful women. Drawing on Jack Zipes’s notion of fairy tales as an art of subversion with a civilizing mission, Joan Riviere’s notion of “womanliness as a masquerade,” and Terry Castle’s argument that femal…
Sites of Dialogue, Sites of Struggle for Power in Hanan Al-Shaykh’s One Thousand and One Nights
The stories of The Arabian Nights have been revised multiple times throughout history, including the most popular translations, by Edward Lane (1859), Sir Richard Francis Burton (1885–1886), and Joseph-Charles Mardus (1898). Some critics consider Shahrazad as a slave, whereas others view her as a feminist. Numerous scholars argue that many of these translations display Orientalist stereotyping of Arab women and men. This study analyzes Hanan Al-S…
Breaking English in Zeina Hashem Beck's duet poems
Attempting to Break Binary Oppositions of East and West
Hanan Al-Shaykh’s, “I Sweep the Sun off Rooftops”, calls for cross-cultural dialogue between different cultures. The text explores the cultural tensions that shape an individual’s identity within the postcolonial context. This article examines an encounter in the text between the Moroccan protagonist and her English boyfriend, his sister and his friends in London. Engaging in dialogue between multiple postcolonial theories such as Frantz Fanon’s …
Misuse of Islam in El-Saadawi’s God Dies by the Nile from a Socialist Feminist Perspective
This essay argues that El-Saadawi, in her novel God Dies by the Nile , does not oppose Islam and does not claim that it is Islam that oppresses women, but rather that it is the abuse of Islam and the melange of Islam, traditions, and superstitions that oppresses the women in Kafr El Teen, which is symbolic of many Arab countries. This paper takes a socialist feminist perspective and analyzes the ways in which political institutions, patriarchy. a…
Why Insanity Is Not Subversive in Hanan Al-Shaykh's Short Story 'Season of Madness
Dalya Abudi maintains that in many female Arab texts ‘madness serves as a metaphor for female victimisation on the one hand and for female resistance on the other’. This paper contends that the representation of women as insane in Hanan Al-Shaykh's ‘Season of Madness’ is not subversive. I draw on Camineor-Santangelo's approach to feminist criticism, which argues that a madwoman cannot speak. Camineor-Santangelo explains that madness is complicit …
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Misuse of Islam in El-Saadawi’s God Dies by the Nile from a Socialist Feminist Perspective
This essay argues that El-Saadawi, in her novel God Dies by the Nile , does not oppose Islam and does not claim that it is Islam that oppresses women, but rather that it is the abuse of Islam and the melange of Islam, traditions, and superstitions that oppresses the women in Kafr El Teen, which is symbolic of many Arab countries. This paper takes a socialist feminist perspective and analyzes the ways in which political institutions, patriarchy. a…
Why Insanity Is Not Subversive in Hanan Al-Shaykh's Short Story 'Season of Madness
Dalya Abudi maintains that in many female Arab texts ‘madness serves as a metaphor for female victimisation on the one hand and for female resistance on the other’. This paper contends that the representation of women as insane in Hanan Al-Shaykh's ‘Season of Madness’ is not subversive. I draw on Camineor-Santangelo's approach to feminist criticism, which argues that a madwoman cannot speak. Camineor-Santangelo explains that madness is complicit …
Attempting to Break Binary Oppositions of East and West
Hanan Al-Shaykh’s, “I Sweep the Sun off Rooftops”, calls for cross-cultural dialogue between different cultures. The text explores the cultural tensions that shape an individual’s identity within the postcolonial context. This article examines an encounter in the text between the Moroccan protagonist and her English boyfriend, his sister and his friends in London. Engaging in dialogue between multiple postcolonial theories such as Frantz Fanon’s …
Lebanese Subversive Folktales
Najla Jraissaty compiled stories that were orally narrated by Lebanese women to children and other women. This article focuses on telling tales as an oral performance and how these storytellers narrated tales featuring resilient, intelligent, powerful women. Drawing on Jack Zipes’s notion of fairy tales as an art of subversion with a civilizing mission, Joan Riviere’s notion of “womanliness as a masquerade,” and Terry Castle’s argument that femal…
Sites of Dialogue, Sites of Struggle for Power in Hanan Al-Shaykh’s One Thousand and One Nights
The stories of The Arabian Nights have been revised multiple times throughout history, including the most popular translations, by Edward Lane (1859), Sir Richard Francis Burton (1885–1886), and Joseph-Charles Mardus (1898). Some critics consider Shahrazad as a slave, whereas others view her as a feminist. Numerous scholars argue that many of these translations display Orientalist stereotyping of Arab women and men. This study analyzes Hanan Al-S…
Breaking English in Zeina Hashem Beck's duet poems
Art (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Power (physics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Argument (complex analysis (1 works) · Contemporary Literature and Criticism (1 works) · Feminism (1 works)