Nasaybah Walid Awajan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4140416 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nasaybah Walid Awajan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nasaybah Walid |
| FAMILY NAME | Awajan |
| SIGNATURE | AWAJAN N W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Middle East University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5818-4813 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
D. H. Lawrence and W. S. Merwin as Ecopoets: A Comparative/Contrastive Study
This paper studies D. H. Lawrence and W. S. Merwin as ecopoets through examining selected poems from their poetry collections. It argues that despite the distance of time and space as well as individual viewpoints and general outlooks, Lawrence and Merwin share certain basic viewpoints on nature, the environment, and ecology. Employing ecocriticism and comparative/contrastive approaches, the paper aims at identifying some thematic similarities an…
Sisterhood in Leila Aboulela’s Bird Summons and Toni Morrison’s Sula
This study aims to explore how Toni Morrison and Leila Aboulela represent the importance of sisterhood in the lives of women in diaspora, in their novels, Sula (1973) and Bird Summons (2019). The study attempts to highlight the challenges that women in diaspora face, such as marginalization, patriarchy, and discrimination. Therefore, sisterhood has emerged as a powerful force for empowerment and resistance to colonial contexts. These two novels a…
Depictions of Youth Challenges in Jennifer Niven’s All the Bright Places and John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars
The study attempts to investigate John Green’s and Jennifer Niven’s representation of young adult challenges and how they cope with them in their novels, The Fault in Our Stars and All the Bright Places. Both novels are analyzed by using the lens of postmodernism. The significance of the study lies in its singularity in establishing connections between the chosen novels aiming to find the interrelationship between the struggles, challenges, and i…
Major Themes and Literary Techniques in Mosab Abu Toha’s Poetry Collection Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: A Formalist Approach
This paper examines some major themes in Mosab Abu Toha’s debut poetry collection Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear (2022) and the literary and technical devices used to convey them. Applying the formalist approach, the paper investigates the integration of content, form, language, and technical/stylistic devices in the selected poems. While the main themes explored include siege, resilience, home, and identity, the examined figurative tropes …
The Adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Othello in Nicole Galland’s I, Iago
This study aims to identify how Nicole Galland’s novel I, Iago is considered an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s play Othello in terms of race, class, and the representation of women. Additionally, the study attempts to compare and contrast the adaptation and the source play in terms of the themes of race, class, and the representation of women. To achieve the objectives of the study, the novel is analyzed through the theory of adaptation. The…
Finding the third space in digital diaspora in the narration of Leila Aboulela’s Bird Summons (2019): A postcolonial corpus-assisted analysis
The aim of this study is to show how Leila Aboulela incorporates digital diaspora in her narration of Bird Summons (2019). Largely focusing on the main character, Salma, the study also explores how Aboulela depicts Arabs, who in the West try to cope with their new life through technology and social media. Aboulela shows how Salma reaches to what Homi Bhabha calls ‘The Third Space’ with the assistance of digital devices and social media. The novel…
A Contemporary Adaptation of Shakespeare’s Plays in Al Bassam’s The Arab Shakespeare Trilogy
This study examines Sulayman Al Bassam’s adaptations of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Richard III, and Twelfth Night, analyzing how his reworkings critique political leadership in the contemporary Arab world and deconstruct the Western discourse on Islamic terrorism. Al Bassam utilizes the disruptive elements in Shakespeare’s original works to engage with issues of religious extremism, Western opportunism, and authoritarianism in Arab/Muslim societies. H…
Strengthening Women in Leila Aboulela’s Minaret and Mohja Kahf’s The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf
Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad in the Time of the Covid-19: A Postmodern Reading
The study explores how Ahmed Saadawi’s novel, Frankenstein in Baghdad (2013) could be related to the time of COVID-19 through a postmodern lens focusing on post-war issues. The study aims at exploring Saadawi’s characters who are used by the writer to represent post-war issues in Iraq. The characters suffer from a kind of hallucination and depression as seen in both their behavior and their routine, everyday lives. They show how their life has no…
Violence and Freedom in Isayama's Attack on Titan
This paper aims at providing a different understanding of violence as a productive force rather than a destructive force in Hajime Isayama's Attack on Titan animanga. Relying on Frantz Fanon's theory of revolutionary violence, Sigmund Freud's theory of aggression and violence, and James P. Sterba's just war theory, the paper shows that violence can be seen as a productive force, which is necessary for humans' survival, justice, freedom, and rebir…
Linguistic and Semiotic Analysis of Memes with English and Arabic Humor Captions
This study aimed to examine memes from a linguistic and cultural perspective, focusing on humor expressed through English and Arabic captions in memes collected from Facebook and Instagram. Using a mixed-method approach that combined quantitative and qualitative methods, corpus linguistics was employed to collect 60 memes—30 Arabic and 30 English. The study sought to highlight the similarities and differences in the methods used to express humor …
The Role of Rocks in Defining the Characters in Isabella Hammad’s The Parisian (2019)
The current study looks at the metaphors for rocks in Isabella Hammad's novel The Parisian (2019). It seeks to demonstrate how Isabella Hammad employs rock analogies to describe and provide an understanding into her characters, Midhat, Jamil, and Fatima. Midhat, who studied abroad, has a hyphenated identity and is portrayed as a compromise—less resistant, delicate, and adaptable. The inverse of the properties of the rocks/stones. The other charac…
The Nearly Hundred-Year Gap in Finding the New Arab Woman: Fadia Faqir’s Pillars of Salt and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
The study aims to explore the representation of Arab women in Fadia Faqir’s novel, Pillars of Salt and the representation of Western women in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby. The study also attempts to compare and contrast between the two writers’ representations of women. To achieve the objectives of the study, the theory of feminism is applied to both novels to analyse them in terms of how women are represented. Moreover, the resu…
The Ambivalent Depictions of Arabs in Naomi Shihab Nye’s Habibi and Diana Abu-Jaber’s Crescent
The study aims to identify how Arab-American authors Naomi Shihab Nye and Diana Abu-Jaber depict Arabs in their novels, Habibi and Crescent. Additionally, the study attempts to compare and contrast between the two writers’ depictions of Arabs in their novels. To achieve the objectives of the study, the theory of Post-colonialism is used; more specifically, Edward Said’s views from his book Orientalism are applied to both novels. The study conclud…
The Adaptation of the Western Perspective (Don DeLillo) on Terrorism in Fadia Faqir’s Willow Trees Don’t Weep
The study aims to identify how the American author, Don DeLillo presents Arab Muslims in his novel Falling Man, likewise explores how the Jordanian-British, Fadia Faqir, presents Arab Muslims by adopting the Western Perspective of them in her novel Willow Trees Don’t Weep. To achieve the objectives of the study, the theory of Post-colonialism is used, and specifically the views of Edward Said on Orientalism are applied to both novels. The study c…
The effect of implementing technology in formative assessments to ensure student learning in higher education English literature courses after Covid-19
This study aims to show how formative assessment that is assisted by technology can improve student learning in English literature courses in higher education. Moreover, it explores how the use of technology could help implement formative assessment by the instructors to assure student learning in English literature courses in an efficient and timely manner. Formative assessment is somewhat new for higher education instructors, especially those w…
Increasing students’ engagement: The use of new instructional designs in English literature online courses during Covid-19
The explores the impact of using both ADDIE Model, which stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation, as an instructional design and UDL in planning for English Literature Online courses during COVID-19 in higher education from the perspective of the students. Up to the researcher’s knowledge, no prior studies have been conducted to explore the effect of the use of ADDIE model and UDL in online English Literature cour…
Towards New Instructional Design Models in Online English Literature Courses During Covid-19 for Sustainability Assurance in Higher Education
The study explores the effect of using new instructional design models in online English literature courses in higher education and explores the effect of their use on students’ performance. This is to assure sustainability in higher education. The study shows the effect of using ADDIE instructional design model along with universal design for learning on students’ performance in online English literature courses in higher education. The study al…
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Increasing students’ engagement: The use of new instructional designs in English literature online courses during Covid-19
The explores the impact of using both ADDIE Model, which stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation, as an instructional design and UDL in planning for English Literature Online courses during COVID-19 in higher education from the perspective of the students. Up to the researcher’s knowledge, no prior studies have been conducted to explore the effect of the use of ADDIE model and UDL in online English Literature cour…
Towards New Instructional Design Models in Online English Literature Courses During Covid-19 for Sustainability Assurance in Higher Education
The study explores the effect of using new instructional design models in online English literature courses in higher education and explores the effect of their use on students’ performance. This is to assure sustainability in higher education. The study shows the effect of using ADDIE instructional design model along with universal design for learning on students’ performance in online English literature courses in higher education. The study al…
The Nearly Hundred-Year Gap in Finding the New Arab Woman: Fadia Faqir’s Pillars of Salt and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
The study aims to explore the representation of Arab women in Fadia Faqir’s novel, Pillars of Salt and the representation of Western women in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby. The study also attempts to compare and contrast between the two writers’ representations of women. To achieve the objectives of the study, the theory of feminism is applied to both novels to analyse them in terms of how women are represented. Moreover, the resu…
The Ambivalent Depictions of Arabs in Naomi Shihab Nye’s Habibi and Diana Abu-Jaber’s Crescent
The study aims to identify how Arab-American authors Naomi Shihab Nye and Diana Abu-Jaber depict Arabs in their novels, Habibi and Crescent. Additionally, the study attempts to compare and contrast between the two writers’ depictions of Arabs in their novels. To achieve the objectives of the study, the theory of Post-colonialism is used; more specifically, Edward Said’s views from his book Orientalism are applied to both novels. The study conclud…
The Adaptation of the Western Perspective (Don DeLillo) on Terrorism in Fadia Faqir’s Willow Trees Don’t Weep
The study aims to identify how the American author, Don DeLillo presents Arab Muslims in his novel Falling Man, likewise explores how the Jordanian-British, Fadia Faqir, presents Arab Muslims by adopting the Western Perspective of them in her novel Willow Trees Don’t Weep. To achieve the objectives of the study, the theory of Post-colonialism is used, and specifically the views of Edward Said on Orientalism are applied to both novels. The study c…
The effect of implementing technology in formative assessments to ensure student learning in higher education English literature courses after Covid-19
This study aims to show how formative assessment that is assisted by technology can improve student learning in English literature courses in higher education. Moreover, it explores how the use of technology could help implement formative assessment by the instructors to assure student learning in English literature courses in an efficient and timely manner. Formative assessment is somewhat new for higher education instructors, especially those w…
Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad in the Time of the Covid-19: A Postmodern Reading
The study explores how Ahmed Saadawi’s novel, Frankenstein in Baghdad (2013) could be related to the time of COVID-19 through a postmodern lens focusing on post-war issues. The study aims at exploring Saadawi’s characters who are used by the writer to represent post-war issues in Iraq. The characters suffer from a kind of hallucination and depression as seen in both their behavior and their routine, everyday lives. They show how their life has no…
Violence and Freedom in Isayama's Attack on Titan
This paper aims at providing a different understanding of violence as a productive force rather than a destructive force in Hajime Isayama's Attack on Titan animanga. Relying on Frantz Fanon's theory of revolutionary violence, Sigmund Freud's theory of aggression and violence, and James P. Sterba's just war theory, the paper shows that violence can be seen as a productive force, which is necessary for humans' survival, justice, freedom, and rebir…
Linguistic and Semiotic Analysis of Memes with English and Arabic Humor Captions
This study aimed to examine memes from a linguistic and cultural perspective, focusing on humor expressed through English and Arabic captions in memes collected from Facebook and Instagram. Using a mixed-method approach that combined quantitative and qualitative methods, corpus linguistics was employed to collect 60 memes—30 Arabic and 30 English. The study sought to highlight the similarities and differences in the methods used to express humor …
The Role of Rocks in Defining the Characters in Isabella Hammad’s The Parisian (2019)
The current study looks at the metaphors for rocks in Isabella Hammad's novel The Parisian (2019). It seeks to demonstrate how Isabella Hammad employs rock analogies to describe and provide an understanding into her characters, Midhat, Jamil, and Fatima. Midhat, who studied abroad, has a hyphenated identity and is portrayed as a compromise—less resistant, delicate, and adaptable. The inverse of the properties of the rocks/stones. The other charac…
The Adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Othello in Nicole Galland’s I, Iago
This study aims to identify how Nicole Galland’s novel I, Iago is considered an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s play Othello in terms of race, class, and the representation of women. Additionally, the study attempts to compare and contrast the adaptation and the source play in terms of the themes of race, class, and the representation of women. To achieve the objectives of the study, the novel is analyzed through the theory of adaptation. The…
Finding the third space in digital diaspora in the narration of Leila Aboulela’s Bird Summons (2019): A postcolonial corpus-assisted analysis
The aim of this study is to show how Leila Aboulela incorporates digital diaspora in her narration of Bird Summons (2019). Largely focusing on the main character, Salma, the study also explores how Aboulela depicts Arabs, who in the West try to cope with their new life through technology and social media. Aboulela shows how Salma reaches to what Homi Bhabha calls ‘The Third Space’ with the assistance of digital devices and social media. The novel…
A Contemporary Adaptation of Shakespeare’s Plays in Al Bassam’s The Arab Shakespeare Trilogy
This study examines Sulayman Al Bassam’s adaptations of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Richard III, and Twelfth Night, analyzing how his reworkings critique political leadership in the contemporary Arab world and deconstruct the Western discourse on Islamic terrorism. Al Bassam utilizes the disruptive elements in Shakespeare’s original works to engage with issues of religious extremism, Western opportunism, and authoritarianism in Arab/Muslim societies. H…
Strengthening Women in Leila Aboulela’s Minaret and Mohja Kahf’s The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf
D. H. Lawrence and W. S. Merwin as Ecopoets: A Comparative/Contrastive Study
This paper studies D. H. Lawrence and W. S. Merwin as ecopoets through examining selected poems from their poetry collections. It argues that despite the distance of time and space as well as individual viewpoints and general outlooks, Lawrence and Merwin share certain basic viewpoints on nature, the environment, and ecology. Employing ecocriticism and comparative/contrastive approaches, the paper aims at identifying some thematic similarities an…
Sisterhood in Leila Aboulela’s Bird Summons and Toni Morrison’s Sula
This study aims to explore how Toni Morrison and Leila Aboulela represent the importance of sisterhood in the lives of women in diaspora, in their novels, Sula (1973) and Bird Summons (2019). The study attempts to highlight the challenges that women in diaspora face, such as marginalization, patriarchy, and discrimination. Therefore, sisterhood has emerged as a powerful force for empowerment and resistance to colonial contexts. These two novels a…
Depictions of Youth Challenges in Jennifer Niven’s All the Bright Places and John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars
The study attempts to investigate John Green’s and Jennifer Niven’s representation of young adult challenges and how they cope with them in their novels, The Fault in Our Stars and All the Bright Places. Both novels are analyzed by using the lens of postmodernism. The significance of the study lies in its singularity in establishing connections between the chosen novels aiming to find the interrelationship between the struggles, challenges, and i…
Major Themes and Literary Techniques in Mosab Abu Toha’s Poetry Collection Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: A Formalist Approach
This paper examines some major themes in Mosab Abu Toha’s debut poetry collection Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear (2022) and the literary and technical devices used to convey them. Applying the formalist approach, the paper investigates the integration of content, form, language, and technical/stylistic devices in the selected poems. While the main themes explored include siege, resilience, home, and identity, the examined figurative tropes …
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