Mara Naaman
Biographic Data
| ID | 5423393 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mara Naaman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mara |
| FAMILY NAME | Naaman |
| SIGNATURE | NAAMAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Williams College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8449-2417 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Landscapes of Iraqi Poetry
This article explores the construction of Iraq as lyric object in the poetry of Badr Shākir al-Sayyāb, Maḥmūd Darwīsh, Saʿdī Yūsuf, and Sinān Anṭūn. I argue that there is a clear sense of ambivalence for these poets over how to represent Iraq; the country emerges in their verse as both an unmarred idyll and as a landscape of wretchedness and despair. In putting these Arabic works in dialogue with the anti-war poems of the American writer Brian Tu…
The Indigenous Modernism of Khayri Shalabi
I n the previous chapters I have attempted to establish the site of Wust al-Balad as a historically contested space. The staging of colonial modernity in this space, as we have seen, was a project that was intended to give rise to the modern Egyptian subject. The demonstrations on the eve of the 1952 revolution, as detailed in our discussion of Radwa ‘Ashur’s Qit’a min Urubba , symbolized an important attempt on the part of Cairenes to mar this f…
Urban Space in Contemporary Egyptian Literature
An examination of how the space of the downtown served dual purposes as both a symbol of colonial influence and capital in Egypt, as well as a staging ground for the demonstrations of the Egyptian nat
Disciplinary Divergences
Disciplinary Divergences
The Indigenous Modernism of Khayri Shalabi
I n the previous chapters I have attempted to establish the site of Wust al-Balad as a historically contested space. The staging of colonial modernity in this space, as we have seen, was a project that was intended to give rise to the modern Egyptian subject. The demonstrations on the eve of the 1952 revolution, as detailed in our discussion of Radwa ‘Ashur’s Qit’a min Urubba , symbolized an important attempt on the part of Cairenes to mar this f…
Urban Space in Contemporary Egyptian Literature
An examination of how the space of the downtown served dual purposes as both a symbol of colonial influence and capital in Egypt, as well as a staging ground for the demonstrations of the Egyptian nat
Landscapes of Iraqi Poetry
This article explores the construction of Iraq as lyric object in the poetry of Badr Shākir al-Sayyāb, Maḥmūd Darwīsh, Saʿdī Yūsuf, and Sinān Anṭūn. I argue that there is a clear sense of ambivalence for these poets over how to represent Iraq; the country emerges in their verse as both an unmarred idyll and as a landscape of wretchedness and despair. In putting these Arabic works in dialogue with the anti-war poems of the American writer Brian Tu…
Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Islamic Studies and History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Capital (architecture) (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (2 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (2 works)