Boutheina Khaldi
Biographic Data
| ID | 4160106 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Boutheina Khaldi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Boutheina |
| FAMILY NAME | Khaldi |
| SIGNATURE | KHALDI B |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University of Sharjah |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1060-3852 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Egyptian feminist Nabawiyya Mūsā’s reformist project in the early twentieth century
She has been celebrated as Egypt's first female educator ( Muʿallimat Miṣr al-ulā ), Nabawiyya Mūsā (d. 1951), but her reformist project has also received exiguous attention, partly owing to the fact that her work has not been properly studied. A textual analysis of her autobiography Tārīkhī bi qalamī (1937) (My History with my Own Pen) lends further attention to her reformist project. This current paper contends that Nabawiyya was a controversia…
Linguistic hegemony in academia
This research paper addresses the complex interplay between multilingualism and the pervasive dominance of the English language in academic publishing, particularly focusing on Arabic academic publications in the humanities. This study adopts a comprehensive research methodology, employing both qualitative and quantitative analyses to investigate Arabic research representation in English-dominated academic journals, particularly those indexed in …
Betwixt and Between
Abū l-Faraǧ al-Aṣfahānī’s (d. ca. 974 AD) Kitāb adab al-ġurabāʾ (The Book of Strangers) is a collection of reports inscribed, engraved, and scratched by liminal figures, i.e. strangers, wayfarers, and exiles on walls, doors, and canvases. The significance of this book, this article argues, lies not in the topic of estrangement en soi but in the prosimetrum inscribed on surfaces, a phenomenon given little attention by literary scholars. The articl…
Modern Salafism in Bint al-Shāṭiʾ’s Journey to the Ḥijāz
In 1972, the Egyptian literary scholar and Islamic thinker, ʿᾹʾisha ʿAbd al-Raḥmān (known by the epithet Bint al-Shāṭiʾ), published a highly informative account of her pilgrimage journeys, ʿUmra and Ḥajj, respectively, under the title, Arḍ al-muʿjizāt: riḥla fī jazīrat al- ʿArab (Land of Miracles: Journey in the Arabian Peninsula, 1951 and 1972). The article argues that Bint al-Shāṭiʾ’s pilgrimage account should be read in light of the political …
Prophetic Translation
Nāzik al-Malāʾikah and Edgar Allan Poe
This study argues that Nāzik al-Malāʾikah’s poetics—as indicated in her “Introduction” to her collection Shaẓāyā wa-ramād and her book Qaḍāyā al-shiʿr al-muʿāṣir —is in conversation with the famous American poet, critic, and short story writer Edgar Allan Poe’s poetics. This affinity has not been properly noted by critics, as their discussions have been limited to issues of form, content, or borrowings from Poe’s poems. This article argues that a…
The Ambivalent Émigrée
This paper reflects on the idea of exile in relation to the fractured intellectual landscape of identity formation as pronounced in a series of conceptualizations of homeland, nation, and nationhood in early twentieth-century Egypt. Where there is strong anti-colonial feeling and a need to forge a clear understanding of belonging, the conceptualization of homeland assumes paramount importance, with prominent Arab intellectuals and littérateurs li…
Multiple Intellectual Engagements
This article sketches the trajectories of Arab intellectual thought over the first seven decades of the last century through readings in the careers of three intellectuals. My choice of the Lebanese-Palestinian resident of Egypt Mayy Ziyādah (d. 1941), the Egyptian Ṭāhā Ḥusayn (d. 1973), and the Iraqi ʿAzīz al-Sayyid Jāsim (d. 1991) rests on the premise that only through explorations into cultural encounters and visions of each intellectual’s car…
Microcosming the Nahah
This article delineates the actual role played by Mayy Ziyādah, not only as a salonnière, but also as an intellectual in her own right with a significant role in the Nahah in twentieth-century Egypt. As her name is most often associated with the salon, I will demonstrate the intellectual climate of that salon, its capacity to bring together different factions and to emerge thereby as a microcosm of the Nahah, in its complexity and hybrid nature. …
Epistolarity in a Nahdah Climate
It is the purpose of this article to study Mayy Ziyādah's (d. 1941) epistolary art as an extension of her salon in the years of its formation, 1913-1936. While her salon gathered together the most distinguished Nahdah elite, her epistolary art consolidated an enormous network that included intellectuals from all over the Arab world, Europe, and North and South America. Her epistolary art made use of the eighteenth-century French salon model, but …
Midnight Tales
Book Review| July 01 2007 Midnight Tales: A Woman’s Journey Through the Middle East by Rosina-Fawzia al-Rawi Midnight Tales: A Woman’s Journey Through the Middle East, al-Rawi, Rosina-Fawzia. Translation by Arav, Monique. Northhampton, MA: Olive Branch Press, 2006. Pp. 303. ISBN 1566565588. Boutheina Khaldi Boutheina Khaldi Yale University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (…
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Midnight Tales
Book Review| July 01 2007 Midnight Tales: A Woman’s Journey Through the Middle East by Rosina-Fawzia al-Rawi Midnight Tales: A Woman’s Journey Through the Middle East, al-Rawi, Rosina-Fawzia. Translation by Arav, Monique. Northhampton, MA: Olive Branch Press, 2006. Pp. 303. ISBN 1566565588. Boutheina Khaldi Boutheina Khaldi Yale University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (…
Epistolarity in a Nahdah Climate
It is the purpose of this article to study Mayy Ziyādah's (d. 1941) epistolary art as an extension of her salon in the years of its formation, 1913-1936. While her salon gathered together the most distinguished Nahdah elite, her epistolary art consolidated an enormous network that included intellectuals from all over the Arab world, Europe, and North and South America. Her epistolary art made use of the eighteenth-century French salon model, but …
Microcosming the Nahah
This article delineates the actual role played by Mayy Ziyādah, not only as a salonnière, but also as an intellectual in her own right with a significant role in the Nahah in twentieth-century Egypt. As her name is most often associated with the salon, I will demonstrate the intellectual climate of that salon, its capacity to bring together different factions and to emerge thereby as a microcosm of the Nahah, in its complexity and hybrid nature. …
Multiple Intellectual Engagements
This article sketches the trajectories of Arab intellectual thought over the first seven decades of the last century through readings in the careers of three intellectuals. My choice of the Lebanese-Palestinian resident of Egypt Mayy Ziyādah (d. 1941), the Egyptian Ṭāhā Ḥusayn (d. 1973), and the Iraqi ʿAzīz al-Sayyid Jāsim (d. 1991) rests on the premise that only through explorations into cultural encounters and visions of each intellectual’s car…
The Ambivalent Émigrée
This paper reflects on the idea of exile in relation to the fractured intellectual landscape of identity formation as pronounced in a series of conceptualizations of homeland, nation, and nationhood in early twentieth-century Egypt. Where there is strong anti-colonial feeling and a need to forge a clear understanding of belonging, the conceptualization of homeland assumes paramount importance, with prominent Arab intellectuals and littérateurs li…
Nāzik al-Malāʾikah and Edgar Allan Poe
This study argues that Nāzik al-Malāʾikah’s poetics—as indicated in her “Introduction” to her collection Shaẓāyā wa-ramād and her book Qaḍāyā al-shiʿr al-muʿāṣir —is in conversation with the famous American poet, critic, and short story writer Edgar Allan Poe’s poetics. This affinity has not been properly noted by critics, as their discussions have been limited to issues of form, content, or borrowings from Poe’s poems. This article argues that a…
Prophetic Translation
Betwixt and Between
Abū l-Faraǧ al-Aṣfahānī’s (d. ca. 974 AD) Kitāb adab al-ġurabāʾ (The Book of Strangers) is a collection of reports inscribed, engraved, and scratched by liminal figures, i.e. strangers, wayfarers, and exiles on walls, doors, and canvases. The significance of this book, this article argues, lies not in the topic of estrangement en soi but in the prosimetrum inscribed on surfaces, a phenomenon given little attention by literary scholars. The articl…
Modern Salafism in Bint al-Shāṭiʾ’s Journey to the Ḥijāz
In 1972, the Egyptian literary scholar and Islamic thinker, ʿᾹʾisha ʿAbd al-Raḥmān (known by the epithet Bint al-Shāṭiʾ), published a highly informative account of her pilgrimage journeys, ʿUmra and Ḥajj, respectively, under the title, Arḍ al-muʿjizāt: riḥla fī jazīrat al- ʿArab (Land of Miracles: Journey in the Arabian Peninsula, 1951 and 1972). The article argues that Bint al-Shāṭiʾ’s pilgrimage account should be read in light of the political …
Linguistic hegemony in academia
This research paper addresses the complex interplay between multilingualism and the pervasive dominance of the English language in academic publishing, particularly focusing on Arabic academic publications in the humanities. This study adopts a comprehensive research methodology, employing both qualitative and quantitative analyses to investigate Arabic research representation in English-dominated academic journals, particularly those indexed in …
The Egyptian feminist Nabawiyya Mūsā’s reformist project in the early twentieth century
She has been celebrated as Egypt's first female educator ( Muʿallimat Miṣr al-ulā ), Nabawiyya Mūsā (d. 1951), but her reformist project has also received exiguous attention, partly owing to the fact that her work has not been properly studied. A textual analysis of her autobiography Tārīkhī bi qalamī (1937) (My History with my Own Pen) lends further attention to her reformist project. This current paper contends that Nabawiyya was a controversia…
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