Dina Amin
Biographic Data
| ID | 5521956 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dina Amin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dina |
| FAMILY NAME | Amin |
| SIGNATURE | AMIN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1Villanova University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9787-9140 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Eighteen Days in Tahrir Protests
On January 25, 2011, a spontaneous mobilization of masses of Egyptian folks congregated in Tahrir Square calling for change in Egypt. ‘Bread, freedom and social justice’ is what Egyptian demonstrators chanted throughout their encampment in the Midan. Shortly after Tahrir Square had turned into a community of protestors congregating and setting up camp day and night in the large plaza, random protestors and performers started devising means of ent…
Hamlet’s Arab Journey
Bā Kathīr's Hārūt wa-Mārūt
The relationship between religion and theatre is an ancient one; in fact this relationship has been the essence and raison d’être of theatre from ancient Egypt and Greece until the present day. However, in today's world, to borrow from, or be inspired by, a holy scripture is not only to debate issues pertaining to faith, but rather to aim for a dialectics between the dramatic work and the modern-day readers/spectators and their contemporary socio…
Disorientation and the Metropolis in Hudā Barakāt’s Hārith al-miyāh
In Hārith al-miyāh (The Tiller of Waters, 1998) Hudā Barakāt departs from traditional war narratives to unravel the horrors of war by depicting a protagonist whose life is reduced to an animal-like existence and whose relationship with space and time disorients both him and the reader. To preserve knowledge of his self, and to safeguard his homeland from complete annihilation, he reconstructs its history by telling stories to his beloved about Le…
Censorship and Its Changing Taboos on the Egyptian Stage—From Politics and Religion to Sexual Frustration
When asked about “political control of a population,” Michel Foucault responded, “[P]ower had to gain access to the bodies of individual, to their acts, attitudes, and modes of everyday behavior . . .I believe that the political significance of the problem of sex is due to the fact that sex is located at the point of intersection of the discipline of the body and the control of the population.” This insight is often reflected in the relationship …
Temporal and Spatial Re-Construction Through Memory
Temporal and Spatial Re-Construction Through Memory
Brill is delighted to announce that it has renewed its Transformative Agreement with Jisc in the UK for 2023-2024. Brill is one of the leading academic publishers in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Biology, with a broad Open Access portfolio consisting of more than 1,100 books and several thousand journal articles
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Temporal and Spatial Re-Construction Through Memory
Temporal and Spatial Re-Construction Through Memory
Brill is delighted to announce that it has renewed its Transformative Agreement with Jisc in the UK for 2023-2024. Brill is one of the leading academic publishers in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Biology, with a broad Open Access portfolio consisting of more than 1,100 books and several thousand journal articles
Censorship and Its Changing Taboos on the Egyptian Stage—From Politics and Religion to Sexual Frustration
When asked about “political control of a population,” Michel Foucault responded, “[P]ower had to gain access to the bodies of individual, to their acts, attitudes, and modes of everyday behavior . . .I believe that the political significance of the problem of sex is due to the fact that sex is located at the point of intersection of the discipline of the body and the control of the population.” This insight is often reflected in the relationship …
Disorientation and the Metropolis in Hudā Barakāt’s Hārith al-miyāh
In Hārith al-miyāh (The Tiller of Waters, 1998) Hudā Barakāt departs from traditional war narratives to unravel the horrors of war by depicting a protagonist whose life is reduced to an animal-like existence and whose relationship with space and time disorients both him and the reader. To preserve knowledge of his self, and to safeguard his homeland from complete annihilation, he reconstructs its history by telling stories to his beloved about Le…
Bā Kathīr's Hārūt wa-Mārūt
The relationship between religion and theatre is an ancient one; in fact this relationship has been the essence and raison d’être of theatre from ancient Egypt and Greece until the present day. However, in today's world, to borrow from, or be inspired by, a holy scripture is not only to debate issues pertaining to faith, but rather to aim for a dialectics between the dramatic work and the modern-day readers/spectators and their contemporary socio…
Hamlet’s Arab Journey
Eighteen Days in Tahrir Protests
On January 25, 2011, a spontaneous mobilization of masses of Egyptian folks congregated in Tahrir Square calling for change in Egypt. ‘Bread, freedom and social justice’ is what Egyptian demonstrators chanted throughout their encampment in the Midan. Shortly after Tahrir Square had turned into a community of protestors congregating and setting up camp day and night in the large plaza, random protestors and performers started devising means of ent…
Art (6 works) · History (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art history (3 works) · Islamic Studies and History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Middle East Politics and Society (3 works)