Aida Fahmawi Watad
Biographic Data
| ID | 6735597 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aida Fahmawi Watad |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aida Fahmawi |
| FAMILY NAME | Watad |
| SIGNATURE | WATAD A F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Al-Qasemi Academic College of Education |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3868-9427 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Semiotics of Flags in Colonial Spaces
Shireen Abu Akleh was a prominent Al-Jazeera Palestinian journalist who was killed by the Israeli on 11 May 2022 while she was wearing a blue press vest and covering an army raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the Israeli occupied West Bank. The funeral procession of Shireen Abu Akleh in Jerusalem in May 2022 saw Israeli police forcefully confiscating Palestinian flags. This act raises questions about the symbolism and implications of raising or re…
Palestinian Literature in Hebrew Translation
This article focuses on the complex cultural and political dynamics of translation of Palestinian literature into Hebrew, from a Palestinian perspective. I focus specifically on translation of the literature of Palestinian Israeli citizens, and on a recent, unique model of translation praxis developed by the Maktub project, based in the Van Leer Institute of Jerusalem. The model, entailing dialogic and bi-national translation, aims to turn transl…
Palestine’s YA fiction and identity in Ahlam Bsharat’s Code Name
The article addresses a relatively neglected area of research: Palestinian literature for adolescents, adab al-yāfiʿīn [literature for adolescents] or Young Adult (YA) literature. It sheds light on how this literature addresses the unique problematics of growing up under occupation and considers how novels for young adults reflect the Palestinian teenager's consolidation of his or her identity in relation to the political and social conditions im…
Identity of writing and the writing of identity
While most Palestinian authors living in Israel write Arabic, a small group of writers, belonging to three separate generations, has chosen to write in Hebrew. Palestinian Hebrew writing is a phenomenon which is limited in scope but rich with significance. The Palestinian Hebrew text performatively creates a space for the emergence of a distinct literary, cultural and political identity. The article examines this space, in which the writers in qu…
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Palestine’s YA fiction and identity in Ahlam Bsharat’s Code Name
The article addresses a relatively neglected area of research: Palestinian literature for adolescents, adab al-yāfiʿīn [literature for adolescents] or Young Adult (YA) literature. It sheds light on how this literature addresses the unique problematics of growing up under occupation and considers how novels for young adults reflect the Palestinian teenager's consolidation of his or her identity in relation to the political and social conditions im…
Identity of writing and the writing of identity
While most Palestinian authors living in Israel write Arabic, a small group of writers, belonging to three separate generations, has chosen to write in Hebrew. Palestinian Hebrew writing is a phenomenon which is limited in scope but rich with significance. The Palestinian Hebrew text performatively creates a space for the emergence of a distinct literary, cultural and political identity. The article examines this space, in which the writers in qu…
Palestinian Literature in Hebrew Translation
This article focuses on the complex cultural and political dynamics of translation of Palestinian literature into Hebrew, from a Palestinian perspective. I focus specifically on translation of the literature of Palestinian Israeli citizens, and on a recent, unique model of translation praxis developed by the Maktub project, based in the Van Leer Institute of Jerusalem. The model, entailing dialogic and bi-national translation, aims to turn transl…
Semiotics of Flags in Colonial Spaces
Shireen Abu Akleh was a prominent Al-Jazeera Palestinian journalist who was killed by the Israeli on 11 May 2022 while she was wearing a blue press vest and covering an army raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the Israeli occupied West Bank. The funeral procession of Shireen Abu Akleh in Jerusalem in May 2022 saw Israeli police forcefully confiscating Palestinian flags. This act raises questions about the symbolism and implications of raising or re…
Art (4 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Middle East Politics and Society (3 works)