Samiha Khalil
Biographic Data
| ID | 6742575 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samiha Khalil |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samiha |
| FAMILY NAME | Khalil |
| SIGNATURE | KHALIL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California System |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Last Jewish-Palestinian
Edward Said, working through the Western interwar and postwar theoretical traditions, articulates existential homelessness/exility as a countering ideal to the rigid homogeneity of the nation-state. This essay emphasizes the need to reconfigure Said’s framework for theorizing Palestinian subjectivity within discourses privileging exility, because the theoretical space of exility itself is bound up with a Western theoretical preoccupation with ant…
The Violence of Fragment (A Response to John Forrester’s ‘I Could have Worshiped the Abased and Mutilated Remnant of the Temple’
This essay interrogates John Forrester's analysis of Jewish tenacity, and the relation of the latter to Freud's logic of ruin, memory and destruction. Forrester elucidates especially the connection that Freud draws between Jewish diaspora or exile following the destruction of the Second Temple of Jerusalem and the rise of Jewish high intellectuality as a ‘civilized value’, ultimately exhibiting Freud's conflicting relationship to Jewish nationali…
Philistine imaginings and the naissance of a world other
This study traces the figure of the Philistine, its symbolic afterlife, in general, and its transatlantic circulatory logics, in specific. It follows the figure's ruptures and passages since it first emerged in Late Egyptian as P-r-s-t (transliterated: Peleset) and later on in Hebrew as פלשתי (transliterated: P'lishti) to signify an ancient people dating back to the twelfth century BCE, bearing the anthropological traces of the inhabitants of his…
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Philistine imaginings and the naissance of a world other
This study traces the figure of the Philistine, its symbolic afterlife, in general, and its transatlantic circulatory logics, in specific. It follows the figure's ruptures and passages since it first emerged in Late Egyptian as P-r-s-t (transliterated: Peleset) and later on in Hebrew as פלשתי (transliterated: P'lishti) to signify an ancient people dating back to the twelfth century BCE, bearing the anthropological traces of the inhabitants of his…
The Violence of Fragment (A Response to John Forrester’s ‘I Could have Worshiped the Abased and Mutilated Remnant of the Temple’
This essay interrogates John Forrester's analysis of Jewish tenacity, and the relation of the latter to Freud's logic of ruin, memory and destruction. Forrester elucidates especially the connection that Freud draws between Jewish diaspora or exile following the destruction of the Second Temple of Jerusalem and the rise of Jewish high intellectuality as a ‘civilized value’, ultimately exhibiting Freud's conflicting relationship to Jewish nationali…
The Last Jewish-Palestinian
Edward Said, working through the Western interwar and postwar theoretical traditions, articulates existential homelessness/exility as a countering ideal to the rigid homogeneity of the nation-state. This essay emphasizes the need to reconfigure Said’s framework for theorizing Palestinian subjectivity within discourses privileging exility, because the theoretical space of exility itself is bound up with a Western theoretical preoccupation with ant…
Judaism (2 works) · Agricultural and Environmental Management (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Belt and Road Initiative (1 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (1 works) · Classics (1 works) · Classics (1 works) · Diaspora (1 works) · Enlightenment (1 works) · Existentialism (1 works)