Ferial J Ghazoul
Biographic Data
| ID | 710079 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ferial J Ghazoul |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ferial J |
| FAMILY NAME | Ghazoul |
| SIGNATURE | GHAZOUL F J |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University in Cairo |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-5326-1919 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Tareq Ismael: A passionate and dedicated compatriot
A Passage to More than India: The Suez Canal in the Poetics and Politics of Walt Whitman
The long poem of Walt Whitman entitled “Passage to India” (published in 1871, written in 1869) celebrates the opening of the Suez canal (1869) in its role as linking the East with the West, the spirituality of Asia with new technological innovations of the modern world. Walt Whitman, the undisputed father of American poetry, presented the world in the nine sections of the poem as one “global village”. On analysing the poem, we can see the Orienta…
Humanising Islam's Message and Messenger in Postcolonial Literature
Recent postcolonial novels have touched on Islamic faith and the Prophet, presenting a humanised image of Islam and Muḥammad. Such fiction has succeeded in writing back to Orientalist dehumanisation of the Other and stereotypes of Muslims as well as writing against fundamentalist reactionary appropriation of Islam. Leila Aboulela in The Translator (1999) interprets Islam literally and metaphorically to non-Muslims in a fictional romance that take…
Literature, Gender, and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Egypt: The Life and Works of ‘A’isha Taymur by Mervat F. Hatem
Book Review| July 01 2013 Literature, Gender, and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Egypt: The Life and Works of ‘A’isha Taymur by Mervat F. Hatem Literature, Gender, and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Egypt: The Life and Works of ‘A’isha Taymur, Hatem, Mervat F.. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 234 pages. ISBN 978-0-230-11350-3. Ferial J. Ghazoul Ferial J. Ghazoul American University in Cairo Search for other works by this author …
Darwish's Mural: The Echo of an Epic Hymn
Jidariyya (Mural) by Mahmoud Darwish was intended as his last poetic work, following a brush with death during heart surgery in 1999. Mural combines many strands of Darwish's poetry and is in a sense his testament. The entire collection is one long poem with many movements. It wavers between the lyrical impulse and the epical grandeur of a national classic. This essay analyses the verse genres of epic and lyric in terms of content, form and recep…
Arab Women Writers
This book provides a critical review of Arab women writers from the last quarter of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth century. This study—first published in Arabic in 2004—looks at the work of pioneers and then traces the development of Arab women's literature through the end of the twentieth century, and also includes a researched, comprehensive bibliography of writing by Arab women. In the first section nine chapters that cover…
Desiring Arabs
Children of the New World: A Novel of the Algerian War by Assia Djebar
Book Review| July 01 2007 Children of the New World: A Novel of the Algerian War by Assia Djebar Children of the New World: A Novel of the Algerian War, Djebar, Assia. Translated from the French by Jager, Marjolijn de. Afterword by Clarisse Zimra. New York: The Feminist Press, 2005. Pp. 224. ISBN 1558615105. Ferial J. Ghazoul Ferial J. Ghazoul American University in Cairo Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Middl…
Comparative Literature in the Arab World
Comparative literary studies in the Arab World were put in motion as early as 1904 in Cairo with the publication of a book entitled Tarikh 'ilm al-adab 'ind
The Visual Sign as Semiotic Signifier in the Arabian Nights
This article concentrates on tales from the Arabian Nights where visual signs play a part in communication and narrative unfolding. The Tales of ‘Azīz and Azīza’ and ‘The Hunchback’ are examined in terms of how visual signs are interpreted by the characters. The typology and codes of these signs are explored to construct a latent semiotics based broadly on the categories of Peirce (icon, index and symbol) as well as insights drawn from recent sem…
Iraqi Short Fiction: The Unhomely at Home and Abroad
The article focuses on the uncanny and the strangely fantastic, as an aesthetic expression of a complex and disturbing reality, in twelve short stories by Iraqi writers spanning half a century of fiction writing by men and women. The theoretical framework is drawn from Homi Bhabha and his post-colonial interpretation of Freud's concept of the uncanny (Unheimlich). The article highlights motifs and techniques used in selected short fiction: the do…
Orientalism: Clearing the way for cultural dialogue
Said's Orientalism has opened up reflections that were practically unthinkable under the hegemony of Orientalist discourse. By dismantling the Orientalist thesis of the hierarchy of Self and Other, of the West and the Orient, the book helped remove mental barriers, creating an intellectual space for cultural dialogues. The most striking achievement of Orientalism has been the undoing of racist dualisms. The book sets an example of how institution…
The Arabization of Othello
The Greek Component in the Poetry and Poetics of Muhammad Afīfī Matar
Hamid Saʿid, L'oiseau blanc, trans. Odette Petit and Wanda Voisin (Paris: (Editions Publisud, 1990). Pp. 126
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Darwish's Mural: The Echo of an Epic Hymn
Jidariyya (Mural) by Mahmoud Darwish was intended as his last poetic work, following a brush with death during heart surgery in 1999. Mural combines many strands of Darwish's poetry and is in a sense his testament. The entire collection is one long poem with many movements. It wavers between the lyrical impulse and the epical grandeur of a national classic. This essay analyses the verse genres of epic and lyric in terms of content, form and recep…
Iraqi Short Fiction: The Unhomely at Home and Abroad
The article focuses on the uncanny and the strangely fantastic, as an aesthetic expression of a complex and disturbing reality, in twelve short stories by Iraqi writers spanning half a century of fiction writing by men and women. The theoretical framework is drawn from Homi Bhabha and his post-colonial interpretation of Freud's concept of the uncanny (Unheimlich). The article highlights motifs and techniques used in selected short fiction: the do…
Comparative Literature in the Arab World
Comparative literary studies in the Arab World were put in motion as early as 1904 in Cairo with the publication of a book entitled Tarikh 'ilm al-adab 'ind
Orientalism: Clearing the way for cultural dialogue
Said's Orientalism has opened up reflections that were practically unthinkable under the hegemony of Orientalist discourse. By dismantling the Orientalist thesis of the hierarchy of Self and Other, of the West and the Orient, the book helped remove mental barriers, creating an intellectual space for cultural dialogues. The most striking achievement of Orientalism has been the undoing of racist dualisms. The book sets an example of how institution…
Hamid Saʿid, L'oiseau blanc, trans. Odette Petit and Wanda Voisin (Paris: (Editions Publisud, 1990). Pp. 126
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Greek Component in the Poetry and Poetics of Muhammad Afīfī Matar
The Arabization of Othello
Iraqi Short Fiction: The Unhomely at Home and Abroad
The article focuses on the uncanny and the strangely fantastic, as an aesthetic expression of a complex and disturbing reality, in twelve short stories by Iraqi writers spanning half a century of fiction writing by men and women. The theoretical framework is drawn from Homi Bhabha and his post-colonial interpretation of Freud's concept of the uncanny (Unheimlich). The article highlights motifs and techniques used in selected short fiction: the do…
Orientalism: Clearing the way for cultural dialogue
Said's Orientalism has opened up reflections that were practically unthinkable under the hegemony of Orientalist discourse. By dismantling the Orientalist thesis of the hierarchy of Self and Other, of the West and the Orient, the book helped remove mental barriers, creating an intellectual space for cultural dialogues. The most striking achievement of Orientalism has been the undoing of racist dualisms. The book sets an example of how institution…
Comparative Literature in the Arab World
Comparative literary studies in the Arab World were put in motion as early as 1904 in Cairo with the publication of a book entitled Tarikh 'ilm al-adab 'ind
The Visual Sign as Semiotic Signifier in the Arabian Nights
This article concentrates on tales from the Arabian Nights where visual signs play a part in communication and narrative unfolding. The Tales of ‘Azīz and Azīza’ and ‘The Hunchback’ are examined in terms of how visual signs are interpreted by the characters. The typology and codes of these signs are explored to construct a latent semiotics based broadly on the categories of Peirce (icon, index and symbol) as well as insights drawn from recent sem…
Children of the New World: A Novel of the Algerian War by Assia Djebar
Book Review| July 01 2007 Children of the New World: A Novel of the Algerian War by Assia Djebar Children of the New World: A Novel of the Algerian War, Djebar, Assia. Translated from the French by Jager, Marjolijn de. Afterword by Clarisse Zimra. New York: The Feminist Press, 2005. Pp. 224. ISBN 1558615105. Ferial J. Ghazoul Ferial J. Ghazoul American University in Cairo Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Middl…
Arab Women Writers
This book provides a critical review of Arab women writers from the last quarter of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth century. This study—first published in Arabic in 2004—looks at the work of pioneers and then traces the development of Arab women's literature through the end of the twentieth century, and also includes a researched, comprehensive bibliography of writing by Arab women. In the first section nine chapters that cover…
Desiring Arabs
Darwish's Mural: The Echo of an Epic Hymn
Jidariyya (Mural) by Mahmoud Darwish was intended as his last poetic work, following a brush with death during heart surgery in 1999. Mural combines many strands of Darwish's poetry and is in a sense his testament. The entire collection is one long poem with many movements. It wavers between the lyrical impulse and the epical grandeur of a national classic. This essay analyses the verse genres of epic and lyric in terms of content, form and recep…
Literature, Gender, and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Egypt: The Life and Works of ‘A’isha Taymur by Mervat F. Hatem
Book Review| July 01 2013 Literature, Gender, and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Egypt: The Life and Works of ‘A’isha Taymur by Mervat F. Hatem Literature, Gender, and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Egypt: The Life and Works of ‘A’isha Taymur, Hatem, Mervat F.. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 234 pages. ISBN 978-0-230-11350-3. Ferial J. Ghazoul Ferial J. Ghazoul American University in Cairo Search for other works by this author …
Humanising Islam's Message and Messenger in Postcolonial Literature
Recent postcolonial novels have touched on Islamic faith and the Prophet, presenting a humanised image of Islam and Muḥammad. Such fiction has succeeded in writing back to Orientalist dehumanisation of the Other and stereotypes of Muslims as well as writing against fundamentalist reactionary appropriation of Islam. Leila Aboulela in The Translator (1999) interprets Islam literally and metaphorically to non-Muslims in a fictional romance that take…
A Passage to More than India: The Suez Canal in the Poetics and Politics of Walt Whitman
The long poem of Walt Whitman entitled “Passage to India” (published in 1871, written in 1869) celebrates the opening of the Suez canal (1869) in its role as linking the East with the West, the spirituality of Asia with new technological innovations of the modern world. Walt Whitman, the undisputed father of American poetry, presented the world in the nine sections of the poem as one “global village”. On analysing the poem, we can see the Orienta…
Tareq Ismael: A passionate and dedicated compatriot
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