Catherine Rashid
Biographic Data
| ID | 4883937 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Catherine Rashid |
| GIVEN NAMES | Catherine |
| FAMILY NAME | Rashid |
| SIGNATURE | RASHID C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Islamic Individualism and the Logic of the Narrative: An Interview with Leila Aboulela
Leila Aboulela is a prize-winning British-Sudanese author, who has made waves in the mainstream literary market by bringing an Islamic worldview to bear in her novels and short stories. Her main novels to date are The Translator (1999), Minaret (2005) and Lyrics Alley (2010). Aboulela currently lives in Doha, but arrived in the United Kingdom in December 2010 to promote Lyrics Alley. I took this opportunity to interview her about her position as …
Cultural translation and the musafir: A conversation with Robin Yassin-Kassab
I interview Robin Yassin-Kassab, a British Syrian novelist who is a prescient observer not only of British secularism and Arabism, but also of the recent Arab revolutions. His writings range from journalism on Israeli bombardments, to meditations on Sufism; they hail Islamic tales as inherently nomadic, whilst remaining attentive to the particularities of the Levant. Although in the early stages of a literary career - he is currently writing his …
British Islam and the novel of transformation: Robin Yassin-Kassab'sThe Road from Damascus
This article analyses Robin Yassin-Kassab's debut novel, The Road from Damascus (2008). It is one of the few British novels to interrogate the opposition that has been recently constructed between "secular literature" on the one hand and "Islamic dogma" on the other. This false opposition has been a product of polarized rhetoric produced during the Satanic Verses affair. Through its reappropriated Bildungsroman form, in which the protagonist part…
British Islam and the novel of transformation: Robin Yassin-Kassab'sThe Road from Damascus
This article analyses Robin Yassin-Kassab's debut novel, The Road from Damascus (2008). It is one of the few British novels to interrogate the opposition that has been recently constructed between "secular literature" on the one hand and "Islamic dogma" on the other. This false opposition has been a product of polarized rhetoric produced during the Satanic Verses affair. Through its reappropriated Bildungsroman form, in which the protagonist part…
Islamic Individualism and the Logic of the Narrative: An Interview with Leila Aboulela
Leila Aboulela is a prize-winning British-Sudanese author, who has made waves in the mainstream literary market by bringing an Islamic worldview to bear in her novels and short stories. Her main novels to date are The Translator (1999), Minaret (2005) and Lyrics Alley (2010). Aboulela currently lives in Doha, but arrived in the United Kingdom in December 2010 to promote Lyrics Alley. I took this opportunity to interview her about her position as …
Cultural translation and the musafir: A conversation with Robin Yassin-Kassab
I interview Robin Yassin-Kassab, a British Syrian novelist who is a prescient observer not only of British secularism and Arabism, but also of the recent Arab revolutions. His writings range from journalism on Israeli bombardments, to meditations on Sufism; they hail Islamic tales as inherently nomadic, whilst remaining attentive to the particularities of the Levant. Although in the early stages of a literary career - he is currently writing his …
British Islam and the novel of transformation: Robin Yassin-Kassab'sThe Road from Damascus
This article analyses Robin Yassin-Kassab's debut novel, The Road from Damascus (2008). It is one of the few British novels to interrogate the opposition that has been recently constructed between "secular literature" on the one hand and "Islamic dogma" on the other. This false opposition has been a product of polarized rhetoric produced during the Satanic Verses affair. Through its reappropriated Bildungsroman form, in which the protagonist part…
Art (3 works) · Islam (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Islamic Studies and History (2 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts (2 works) · Narrative (2 works)