Dina Heshmat
Biographic Data
| ID | 4440227 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dina Heshmat |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dina |
| FAMILY NAME | Heshmat |
| SIGNATURE | HESHMAT D |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University in Cairo |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Tracking Down Anticolonial Feminist Militants in the Archive
Egypt 1919
Traces the portrayals of the 1919 Egyptian Revolution in literary and cinematic narratives Re-examines the 1919 Egyptian Revolution in light of the momentous events of 2011 Draws on theoretical approaches in memory studies to investigate the construction of 1919 as a moment of ecstatic nationalist unity Analyses and contextualises representations of the 1919 revolution as narrated in a wide range of novels, films, plays, memoirs and television dr…
Gender, Nation and the Arabic Novel
At once a researcher in gender studies and an insider to ongoing debates on women's rights in the Egyptian political and cultural scene, Hoda Elsadda offers in this book a sort of quintessence of her reflections on, and experience in, the field. Wisely focusing on Egyptian novels, avoiding the traps of a too wide scope of research, the book is an ambitious and captivating attempt to revisit “the modern Arab literary tradition from a gender lens” …
Representing contemporary urban space
Taking into account the expansion of malls as a constitutive element of Egyptian urbanism at the beginning of the twenty-first century, this article analyzes the representation of the mall in two contemporary Egyptian novels. A close reading of Mūsīqā l-mūl by Maḥmūd al-Wardānī and An takūna ʿAbbās al-ʿAbd , by Aḥmad al-ʿĀydī shows that the function of intertextuality in those narratives is central to understand this representation, as well as th…
Gender, Nation and the Arabic Novel
At once a researcher in gender studies and an insider to ongoing debates on women's rights in the Egyptian political and cultural scene, Hoda Elsadda offers in this book a sort of quintessence of her reflections on, and experience in, the field. Wisely focusing on Egyptian novels, avoiding the traps of a too wide scope of research, the book is an ambitious and captivating attempt to revisit “the modern Arab literary tradition from a gender lens” …
Representing contemporary urban space
Taking into account the expansion of malls as a constitutive element of Egyptian urbanism at the beginning of the twenty-first century, this article analyzes the representation of the mall in two contemporary Egyptian novels. A close reading of Mūsīqā l-mūl by Maḥmūd al-Wardānī and An takūna ʿAbbās al-ʿAbd , by Aḥmad al-ʿĀydī shows that the function of intertextuality in those narratives is central to understand this representation, as well as th…
Gender, Nation and the Arabic Novel
At once a researcher in gender studies and an insider to ongoing debates on women's rights in the Egyptian political and cultural scene, Hoda Elsadda offers in this book a sort of quintessence of her reflections on, and experience in, the field. Wisely focusing on Egyptian novels, avoiding the traps of a too wide scope of research, the book is an ambitious and captivating attempt to revisit “the modern Arab literary tradition from a gender lens” …
Egypt 1919
Traces the portrayals of the 1919 Egyptian Revolution in literary and cinematic narratives Re-examines the 1919 Egyptian Revolution in light of the momentous events of 2011 Draws on theoretical approaches in memory studies to investigate the construction of 1919 as a moment of ecstatic nationalist unity Analyses and contextualises representations of the 1919 revolution as narrated in a wide range of novels, films, plays, memoirs and television dr…
Tracking Down Anticolonial Feminist Militants in the Archive
History (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Politics (3 works)