Ali Abdullatif
Biographic Data
| ID | 5801073 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ali Abdullatif |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ali |
| FAMILY NAME | Abdullatif |
| SIGNATURE | ABDULLATIF A |
| AFFILIATIONS | King Faisal University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9218-5097 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Rewriting belonging
Contemporary Anglophone postcolonial fiction repeatedly returns to the language of home, migration, return, and affiliation, yet it rarely treats belonging as a stable possession. This essay argues that in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West, Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah, and Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other, belonging is rewritten as a struggle over narrative authority rather than a recovered attachment to place…
Allegory and imperial power in Orwell’s Animal Farm
Animal Farm has too often been secured within a closed Cold War referentiality, as though its force depended entirely on translating pigs, horses, and slogans back into the chronology of Soviet communism. This essay argues that Orwell’s novella remains politically exact in a different way. Its afterlife lies in the formal intelligence with which it narrates the capture of emancipatory language, the conversion of law into exception, the management…
Gendered bodies, fractured nations
This article argues that contemporary Anglophone fiction does not treat the gendered body as a passive metaphor for national crisis; rather, it stages embodiment as the material and narrative interface through which nation, violence, citizenship, memory, and dissent become legible. Reading Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah, Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire, Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, and Tsitsi Dangarembga’s This Mournable Bo…
Creativity Flourishes Through Electronic Blogs
This study investigated how electronic blogs can foster creativity and enhance writing expression among ninth-grade students by enabling them to capture and reflect on their personal stories and experiences. Conducted with forty-five students from northern Jordan, the research employed semi-structured interviews analyzed through grounded theory to identify patterns in students’ engagement with blogging. The analysis revealed that blogging provide…
Learning Through Infographics
Infographics are visual tools that combine textual information with graphic elements in an interactive format, helping to simplify abstract concepts and present them in an easily understandable and accessible manner. Their importance is particularly evident in how they support learners with special educational needs, especially children with hearing impairments who rely more heavily on visual input for acquiring knowledge. In response to the need…
Book Reviewers for Volume 130
ChatGPT and the rise of semi-humans
This article explores the research question: ‘What are ChatGPT’s human-like traits as perceived by society?’ Thematic analyses of insights from 452 individuals worldwide yielded two categories of traits. Category 1 entails social traits, where ChatGPT embodies the social roles of ‘author’ (imitating human phrasing and paraphrasing practices) and ‘interactor’ (simulating human collaboration and emotion). Category 2 encompasses political traits, wi…
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ChatGPT and the rise of semi-humans
This article explores the research question: ‘What are ChatGPT’s human-like traits as perceived by society?’ Thematic analyses of insights from 452 individuals worldwide yielded two categories of traits. Category 1 entails social traits, where ChatGPT embodies the social roles of ‘author’ (imitating human phrasing and paraphrasing practices) and ‘interactor’ (simulating human collaboration and emotion). Category 2 encompasses political traits, wi…
Book Reviewers for Volume 130
Rewriting belonging
Contemporary Anglophone postcolonial fiction repeatedly returns to the language of home, migration, return, and affiliation, yet it rarely treats belonging as a stable possession. This essay argues that in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West, Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah, and Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other, belonging is rewritten as a struggle over narrative authority rather than a recovered attachment to place…
Allegory and imperial power in Orwell’s Animal Farm
Animal Farm has too often been secured within a closed Cold War referentiality, as though its force depended entirely on translating pigs, horses, and slogans back into the chronology of Soviet communism. This essay argues that Orwell’s novella remains politically exact in a different way. Its afterlife lies in the formal intelligence with which it narrates the capture of emancipatory language, the conversion of law into exception, the management…
Gendered bodies, fractured nations
This article argues that contemporary Anglophone fiction does not treat the gendered body as a passive metaphor for national crisis; rather, it stages embodiment as the material and narrative interface through which nation, violence, citizenship, memory, and dissent become legible. Reading Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah, Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire, Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, and Tsitsi Dangarembga’s This Mournable Bo…
Creativity Flourishes Through Electronic Blogs
This study investigated how electronic blogs can foster creativity and enhance writing expression among ninth-grade students by enabling them to capture and reflect on their personal stories and experiences. Conducted with forty-five students from northern Jordan, the research employed semi-structured interviews analyzed through grounded theory to identify patterns in students’ engagement with blogging. The analysis revealed that blogging provide…
Learning Through Infographics
Infographics are visual tools that combine textual information with graphic elements in an interactive format, helping to simplify abstract concepts and present them in an easily understandable and accessible manner. Their importance is particularly evident in how they support learners with special educational needs, especially children with hearing impairments who rely more heavily on visual input for acquiring knowledge. In response to the need…
Narrative (3 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (3 works) · Politics (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (1 work) · Afterlife (1 work) · Allegory (1 work) · Appropriation (1 work) · Biopower (1 work) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (1 work)