Samira Aghacy
Biographic Data
| ID | 5442794 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samira Aghacy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samira |
| FAMILY NAME | Aghacy |
| SIGNATURE | AGHACY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lebanese American University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ageing in the Modern Arabic Novel
There are more than 15 million people over age 65 currently living in the Arab world, yet little attention has been paid to the cultural significance of growing old. The book recognizes the widespread silence by countering the critical corpus that reads the modern Arabic novel as a political discourse with an emphasis on youth achievement. By offering close readings of 16 fictional works from different parts of the Arab world such as novels by Al…
Ageing in the Modern Arabic Novel
Examines the representation of aging men and women in the modern Arabic novel The first study to focus on aging as it is understood, practiced and problematised in the modern Arabic novel Offers close readings of 16 novels, including semi-autobiographies, bringing together authors from Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Tunisia and Egypt published since the 1950s Incorporates younger as well as older, and female as well as male, authors in a bid to distinguis…
Writing Beirut
Takes a geographical/spatial approach to Beirut seeking to understand how the city is imagined in fiction Exploring the ways in which writers utilize the spaces of the city – joining the factual with the imaginary – this book shows how idiosyncratic perceptions of Beirut are produced, generating an infinite number of Beiruts. The city emerges as interactive, dynamic and historical, a place that is created from the streets, buildings, and monument…
Contemporary Lebanese Fiction
This study focuses on the nature of the Lebanese encounter with modernity in Lebanese fiction over the past forty years or so, a time of great ideological, political, and cultural upheavals. The first part traces the effect of modernity on works by Lebanese writers since the 1950s, a period of “revolutionary political and social change,” and of learning and cultural and social ferment. The second part of the study focuses on Rashid al-Daif's nove…
Lebanese Women's Fiction
This study undertakes an examination of Lebanese women's fiction over the past forty years or so. For many women, the urban environment is an escape from the restrictive traditional community that is closely aligned with a rural mentality. Many of these writers tend to see the city in stark contrast to the country, which, in their eyes represents restraining cultural values. If in some cases the city and the country are represented as real, tangi…
Hoda Barakat's the Stone of Laughter
Hoda Barakat's the Stone of Laughter
Rachid El Daif's an Exposed Space Between Drowsiness and Sleep
Elias Khoury's The Journey of Little Gandhi
Commenting on his novel Riḥlat Gandhī al-Ṣaghīr (The Journey of Little Gandhi), Elias Khoury has made two conflicting assertions. At a gathering held to discuss the book shortly after it was published, Khoury reaffirmed his political and ideological stance in relation to the war in Lebanon. While acknowledging that Gandhi, the protagonist, is a victim of violence and poverty, Khoury said that he regards war as a necessity, a passage to a higher a…
Hoda Barakat's the Stone of Laughter
Elias Khoury's The Journey of Little Gandhi
Commenting on his novel Riḥlat Gandhī al-Ṣaghīr (The Journey of Little Gandhi), Elias Khoury has made two conflicting assertions. At a gathering held to discuss the book shortly after it was published, Khoury reaffirmed his political and ideological stance in relation to the war in Lebanon. While acknowledging that Gandhi, the protagonist, is a victim of violence and poverty, Khoury said that he regards war as a necessity, a passage to a higher a…
Rachid El Daif's an Exposed Space Between Drowsiness and Sleep
Elias Khoury's The Journey of Little Gandhi
Commenting on his novel Riḥlat Gandhī al-Ṣaghīr (The Journey of Little Gandhi), Elias Khoury has made two conflicting assertions. At a gathering held to discuss the book shortly after it was published, Khoury reaffirmed his political and ideological stance in relation to the war in Lebanon. While acknowledging that Gandhi, the protagonist, is a victim of violence and poverty, Khoury said that he regards war as a necessity, a passage to a higher a…
Hoda Barakat's the Stone of Laughter
Hoda Barakat's the Stone of Laughter
Lebanese Women's Fiction
This study undertakes an examination of Lebanese women's fiction over the past forty years or so. For many women, the urban environment is an escape from the restrictive traditional community that is closely aligned with a rural mentality. Many of these writers tend to see the city in stark contrast to the country, which, in their eyes represents restraining cultural values. If in some cases the city and the country are represented as real, tangi…
Contemporary Lebanese Fiction
This study focuses on the nature of the Lebanese encounter with modernity in Lebanese fiction over the past forty years or so, a time of great ideological, political, and cultural upheavals. The first part traces the effect of modernity on works by Lebanese writers since the 1950s, a period of “revolutionary political and social change,” and of learning and cultural and social ferment. The second part of the study focuses on Rashid al-Daif's nove…
Writing Beirut
Takes a geographical/spatial approach to Beirut seeking to understand how the city is imagined in fiction Exploring the ways in which writers utilize the spaces of the city – joining the factual with the imaginary – this book shows how idiosyncratic perceptions of Beirut are produced, generating an infinite number of Beiruts. The city emerges as interactive, dynamic and historical, a place that is created from the streets, buildings, and monument…
Ageing in the Modern Arabic Novel
There are more than 15 million people over age 65 currently living in the Arab world, yet little attention has been paid to the cultural significance of growing old. The book recognizes the widespread silence by countering the critical corpus that reads the modern Arabic novel as a political discourse with an emphasis on youth achievement. By offering close readings of 16 fictional works from different parts of the Arab world such as novels by Al…
Ageing in the Modern Arabic Novel
Examines the representation of aging men and women in the modern Arabic novel The first study to focus on aging as it is understood, practiced and problematised in the modern Arabic novel Offers close readings of 16 novels, including semi-autobiographies, bringing together authors from Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Tunisia and Egypt published since the 1950s Incorporates younger as well as older, and female as well as male, authors in a bid to distinguis…
Sociology (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Art (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · History (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works)