Drew Paul
Biographic Data
| ID | 3591881 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Drew Paul |
| GIVEN NAMES | Drew |
| FAMILY NAME | Paul |
| SIGNATURE | PAUL D |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1 University of Tennessee Knoxville [email protected] |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0855-6666 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Palestinian Cinema Days Around the World
This article examines the 2023 edition of Palestine Cinema Days Around the World (PCDATW), organized in November 2023 at 171 screening sites globally as a response to the 2023 war on Gaza. I consider this festival, which reconfigured a former annual festival in Palestine suspended by the 2023 war and genocide, as an example of cultural resistance that adapts the concept of sumud to the post-2023 reality. Contextualizing it within existing literat…
Space in Modern Egyptian Fiction, written by Yasmine Ramadan
Yasmine Ramadan, Space in Modern Egyptian Fiction. Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 243 pages. Cloth $110.00.Space in Modern Egyptian Fiction by Yasmine Ramadan examines the literary and cultural impact of authors belonging to Egypt’s sixties generation (jīl al-sittīnāt) through the lens of their depictions of space and place. Ramadan’s thorough and engaging study will be of interest to scholar…
Transmission and Transit in Contemporary Arabic Literature
In this essay, I use the concept of naql to connect textual transmission and physical movement in two contemporary Arabic fictional works that are structured around questions of the circulation of narratives and bodies: Khālid al-Khamīsī’s Tāksī , a fictional collection of tales about Cairo taxi drivers, and Aḥmad Saʿdāwī’s Frānkishtāyn fī Baghdād , which depicts a monster roaming the streets of Baghdad. I begin with a discussion of naql as both …
Impossible Figures
This essay examines three documentary depictions of gay Palestinians in Israel and the West Bank. These documentaries often problematically assume a fundamental incompatibility between gay identities and Arab and Palestinian cultures, thereby, first, placing their subjects in the position of choosing between living in Palestine/Israel and living as openly gay; and second, producing a narrative of impossibility, in which Palestinian and gay identi…
Israel/Palestine
Since the early 1990s, Israel has greatly expanded a system checkpoints, walls and other barriers in the West Bank and Gaza that restrict Palestinian mobility. As a result, such border spaces have become ubiquitous elements of everyday life, with profound political, socio-cultural, and economic effects. Israel/Palestine examines how authors and filmmakers in the West Bank, Gaza, and Israel have grappled with the spread and impact of these borders…
Israel/Palestine
Since the early 1990s, Israel has greatly expanded a system checkpoints, walls and other barriers in the West Bank and Gaza that restrict Palestinian movement. Israel/Palestine examines how authors and filmmakers have grappled with the spread of these borders
The Arab Room
This article examines recent Palestinian airport narratives, with a specific emphasis on depictions of Ben Gurion/Lydda airport in Israel, a site where Palestinians often receive extra scrutiny and disparate treatment. Focusing on works by Adania Shibli, Raba'i al-Madhoun, and Randa Jarrar, it argues that such narratives reveal airports to be, for Palestinians, sites of stasis, displacement, and detention, and offers a counter-reading of the popu…
Invitations and responses across different languages
The Grandchildren of Yūnis
In January 2013, Palestinian activists set up a camp on Israeli-occupied land in the West Bank to protest Israeli settlement plans. They named their village “Bāb al-shams,” or “Gate of the Sun,” after Ilyās Khūrī’s novel by the same name that chronicles the Palestinian refugee experience from the beginning of the conflict to the present. A subsequent protest camp, called “Aḥfād Yūnis” or “the Grandchildren of Yūnis,” positioned the protesters as …
The Arab Room
This article examines recent Palestinian airport narratives, with a specific emphasis on depictions of Ben Gurion/Lydda airport in Israel, a site where Palestinians often receive extra scrutiny and disparate treatment. Focusing on works by Adania Shibli, Raba'i al-Madhoun, and Randa Jarrar, it argues that such narratives reveal airports to be, for Palestinians, sites of stasis, displacement, and detention, and offers a counter-reading of the popu…
Invitations and responses across different languages
Impossible Figures
This essay examines three documentary depictions of gay Palestinians in Israel and the West Bank. These documentaries often problematically assume a fundamental incompatibility between gay identities and Arab and Palestinian cultures, thereby, first, placing their subjects in the position of choosing between living in Palestine/Israel and living as openly gay; and second, producing a narrative of impossibility, in which Palestinian and gay identi…
The Grandchildren of Yūnis
In January 2013, Palestinian activists set up a camp on Israeli-occupied land in the West Bank to protest Israeli settlement plans. They named their village “Bāb al-shams,” or “Gate of the Sun,” after Ilyās Khūrī’s novel by the same name that chronicles the Palestinian refugee experience from the beginning of the conflict to the present. A subsequent protest camp, called “Aḥfād Yūnis” or “the Grandchildren of Yūnis,” positioned the protesters as …
Invitations and responses across different languages
Israel/Palestine
Since the early 1990s, Israel has greatly expanded a system checkpoints, walls and other barriers in the West Bank and Gaza that restrict Palestinian mobility. As a result, such border spaces have become ubiquitous elements of everyday life, with profound political, socio-cultural, and economic effects. Israel/Palestine examines how authors and filmmakers in the West Bank, Gaza, and Israel have grappled with the spread and impact of these borders…
Israel/Palestine
Since the early 1990s, Israel has greatly expanded a system checkpoints, walls and other barriers in the West Bank and Gaza that restrict Palestinian movement. Israel/Palestine examines how authors and filmmakers have grappled with the spread of these borders
The Arab Room
This article examines recent Palestinian airport narratives, with a specific emphasis on depictions of Ben Gurion/Lydda airport in Israel, a site where Palestinians often receive extra scrutiny and disparate treatment. Focusing on works by Adania Shibli, Raba'i al-Madhoun, and Randa Jarrar, it argues that such narratives reveal airports to be, for Palestinians, sites of stasis, displacement, and detention, and offers a counter-reading of the popu…
Impossible Figures
This essay examines three documentary depictions of gay Palestinians in Israel and the West Bank. These documentaries often problematically assume a fundamental incompatibility between gay identities and Arab and Palestinian cultures, thereby, first, placing their subjects in the position of choosing between living in Palestine/Israel and living as openly gay; and second, producing a narrative of impossibility, in which Palestinian and gay identi…
Space in Modern Egyptian Fiction, written by Yasmine Ramadan
Yasmine Ramadan, Space in Modern Egyptian Fiction. Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 243 pages. Cloth $110.00.Space in Modern Egyptian Fiction by Yasmine Ramadan examines the literary and cultural impact of authors belonging to Egypt’s sixties generation (jīl al-sittīnāt) through the lens of their depictions of space and place. Ramadan’s thorough and engaging study will be of interest to scholar…
Transmission and Transit in Contemporary Arabic Literature
In this essay, I use the concept of naql to connect textual transmission and physical movement in two contemporary Arabic fictional works that are structured around questions of the circulation of narratives and bodies: Khālid al-Khamīsī’s Tāksī , a fictional collection of tales about Cairo taxi drivers, and Aḥmad Saʿdāwī’s Frānkishtāyn fī Baghdād , which depicts a monster roaming the streets of Baghdad. I begin with a discussion of naql as both …
Palestinian Cinema Days Around the World
This article examines the 2023 edition of Palestine Cinema Days Around the World (PCDATW), organized in November 2023 at 171 screening sites globally as a response to the 2023 war on Gaza. I consider this festival, which reconfigured a former annual festival in Palestine suspended by the 2023 war and genocide, as an example of cultural resistance that adapts the concept of sumud to the post-2023 reality. Contextualizing it within existing literat…
Political science (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Middle East Politics and Society (7 works) · History (6 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Literature (6 works) · Narrative (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Ancient history (5 works)