Samah Selim
Biographic Data
| ID | 5442986 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samah Selim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samah |
| FAMILY NAME | Selim |
| SIGNATURE | SELIM S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Popular Fiction, Translation and the Nahda in Egypt
Neighborhood and Boulevard
At once palimpsest, mosaic, collage, and meander, Neighborhood and Boulevard presents a profoundly poignant depiction. Khaled Ziadeh urges for the restoration of the historically
Literature and Revolution
The three-week uprising in Egypt that ended with the removal of Husni Mubarak on February 11 happened to coincide with the section of my spring course syllabus on the Egyptian novel from Najib Mahfuz to Ahmed Alaidy. As was the case for many of my colleagues and their students, the rapid and awe-inspiring events unfolding daily before us pushed purely academic concerns to the margins of class discussion. This tidal wave of revolutionary politics …
Toward a New Literary History
The past twenty years witnessed a dramatic transformation in Arabic literature studies in the United States. In the early 1990s, the field was still almost exclusively a satellite of area studies and largely bound by Orientalist historical and epistemological paradigms. Graduate students—even those wishing to focus entirely on modern literature—were trained to competence in the entire span of the Arabic literary tradition starting with pre-Islami…
Literature and Nation in the Middle East
Edited by YASIR SULEIMAN & IBRAHIM MUHAWI Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006. 264 pages. Ever since the publication of Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities, nationalism studies has bec
The People’s Entertainments
The Nandah represents an ambivalent period in Middle Eastern Studies. Renaissance, Revival, Awakening, all approximate translations that have been used to describe this foundational histori-cal moment and all of which evoke a quixotic gesture of rupture with and return to cultural foundations. Arab intellectuals began to use the term in the middle of the nineteenth century to describe the linguistic and cultural revival that spread from Egypt and…
The Novel and the Rural Imaginary in Egypt, 1880-1985
The book locates questions of languages, genre, textuality and canonicity within a historical and theoretical framework that foregrounds the emergence of modern nationalism in Egypt. The ways in which the cultural discourses produced by twentieth century Egyptian nationalism created a space for both a hegemonic and counter-hegemonic politics of language, class and place that inscribed a bifurcated narrative and social geography, are examined. The…
The Narrative Craft
Interpreting the Self
Dwight F. Reynolds, ed. Interpreting the Self: Autobiography in the Arabic Literary Tradition. Berkeley: U of California P, 2001. 336 pp. ISBN 0-520-22667-4, $22.50
Crossing borders
Mansür Al-Hallāj and the Poetry of Ecstasy
Literature and Revolution
The three-week uprising in Egypt that ended with the removal of Husni Mubarak on February 11 happened to coincide with the section of my spring course syllabus on the Egyptian novel from Najib Mahfuz to Ahmed Alaidy. As was the case for many of my colleagues and their students, the rapid and awe-inspiring events unfolding daily before us pushed purely academic concerns to the margins of class discussion. This tidal wave of revolutionary politics …
Toward a New Literary History
The past twenty years witnessed a dramatic transformation in Arabic literature studies in the United States. In the early 1990s, the field was still almost exclusively a satellite of area studies and largely bound by Orientalist historical and epistemological paradigms. Graduate students—even those wishing to focus entirely on modern literature—were trained to competence in the entire span of the Arabic literary tradition starting with pre-Islami…
Neighborhood and Boulevard
At once palimpsest, mosaic, collage, and meander, Neighborhood and Boulevard presents a profoundly poignant depiction. Khaled Ziadeh urges for the restoration of the historically
Mansür Al-Hallāj and the Poetry of Ecstasy
Crossing borders
Interpreting the Self
Dwight F. Reynolds, ed. Interpreting the Self: Autobiography in the Arabic Literary Tradition. Berkeley: U of California P, 2001. 336 pp. ISBN 0-520-22667-4, $22.50
The Narrative Craft
The Novel and the Rural Imaginary in Egypt, 1880-1985
The book locates questions of languages, genre, textuality and canonicity within a historical and theoretical framework that foregrounds the emergence of modern nationalism in Egypt. The ways in which the cultural discourses produced by twentieth century Egyptian nationalism created a space for both a hegemonic and counter-hegemonic politics of language, class and place that inscribed a bifurcated narrative and social geography, are examined. The…
The People’s Entertainments
The Nandah represents an ambivalent period in Middle Eastern Studies. Renaissance, Revival, Awakening, all approximate translations that have been used to describe this foundational histori-cal moment and all of which evoke a quixotic gesture of rupture with and return to cultural foundations. Arab intellectuals began to use the term in the middle of the nineteenth century to describe the linguistic and cultural revival that spread from Egypt and…
Literature and Nation in the Middle East
Edited by YASIR SULEIMAN & IBRAHIM MUHAWI Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006. 264 pages. Ever since the publication of Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities, nationalism studies has bec
Neighborhood and Boulevard
At once palimpsest, mosaic, collage, and meander, Neighborhood and Boulevard presents a profoundly poignant depiction. Khaled Ziadeh urges for the restoration of the historically
Literature and Revolution
The three-week uprising in Egypt that ended with the removal of Husni Mubarak on February 11 happened to coincide with the section of my spring course syllabus on the Egyptian novel from Najib Mahfuz to Ahmed Alaidy. As was the case for many of my colleagues and their students, the rapid and awe-inspiring events unfolding daily before us pushed purely academic concerns to the margins of class discussion. This tidal wave of revolutionary politics …
Toward a New Literary History
The past twenty years witnessed a dramatic transformation in Arabic literature studies in the United States. In the early 1990s, the field was still almost exclusively a satellite of area studies and largely bound by Orientalist historical and epistemological paradigms. Graduate students—even those wishing to focus entirely on modern literature—were trained to competence in the entire span of the Arabic literary tradition starting with pre-Islami…
Popular Fiction, Translation and the Nahda in Egypt
Art (9 works) · History (9 works) · Islamic Studies and History (8 works) · Literature (8 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Classics (4 works) · History (4 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)