Diya Abdo
Biographic Data
| ID | 841018 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Diya Abdo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Diya |
| FAMILY NAME | Abdo |
| SIGNATURE | ABDO D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Refugee Council |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
In Loving Memory
Understand this. We never believed that a giant’s heart could be punctured by fumbling, undeserving fingers. I will not say that the how does not matter now. The hows of death matter—especially of women giants.I hold close this soundless memory from the summer of 1993, like a soft-glowing crystal ball surrounded by delicate cotton-fog— walking up the steps of the humanities building at the University of Jordan to get to the English Departmentmaki…
Every Campus A Refuge
Every Campus A Refuge is a novel initiative whereby college campuses provide housing and support to refugees navigating the resettlement process in the United States. This article details the founding and development of the Every Campus A Refuge initiative, particularly as it has been implemented at Guilford College, a small liberal arts college in North Carolina. It also details how Guilford College faculty and students are engaging in a multifa…
Bad Girls of the Arab World
Explores the new ‘bad girls’ of Sudanese music as they defy national boundaries to bring women’s perspectives and critiques to a global audience. Performers such as Alsarah and Rasha have access to a world music stage to comment upon gender and racial hierarchies, chide Sudanese power brokers about their transgressions, and encourage a more inclusive and just society. Pushback against new voices have included charges in the public domain (e.g. Yo…
Go Underground, Young Women
Readings of the Egyptian writer Miral al-Tahawy’s first novel, al-Khibaʾ (1996), typically view it as autobiographical, casting its first-person narrator Fatima as the author’s oppressed double. Equally dismissive, nonautobiographical readings cast her as passive “madwoman.” This article argues that an autobiographical reading attentive to Fatima’s style, language, and technique reveals her to be al-Tahawy’s dramatized interpretation of her writi…
My Qarina, My Self: The Homoerotic as Islamic Feminism in Alifa Rifaat's “My World of the Unknown”
In Alifa Rifaat's "My World of the Unknown," the female narrator's homoerotic encounter with a djinn functions as a radical brand of Islamic feminism that challenges Arabo-Islamic cultural perceptions of female sexuality as threatening. Rifaat reinterprets Islamic teachings and Arabic folklore to show how women's sexuality must be revered rather than feared
Chameleonic Text: Peritextual Transformation in Fatima Mernissi's Dreams of Trespass and Nisa' ‘Ala Ajnihat Al-hilm
This article examines the reasons for and effects of the differing peritextual elements (especially photographs and packaging) between Fatima Mernissi's original autobiography (written in English for an American and European audience) and its translated Arabic version published in Morocco. It focuses on how and why such texts might be radically transformed to address a particular readership
Every Campus A Refuge
Every Campus A Refuge is a novel initiative whereby college campuses provide housing and support to refugees navigating the resettlement process in the United States. This article details the founding and development of the Every Campus A Refuge initiative, particularly as it has been implemented at Guilford College, a small liberal arts college in North Carolina. It also details how Guilford College faculty and students are engaging in a multifa…
My Qarina, My Self: The Homoerotic as Islamic Feminism in Alifa Rifaat's “My World of the Unknown”
In Alifa Rifaat's "My World of the Unknown," the female narrator's homoerotic encounter with a djinn functions as a radical brand of Islamic feminism that challenges Arabo-Islamic cultural perceptions of female sexuality as threatening. Rifaat reinterprets Islamic teachings and Arabic folklore to show how women's sexuality must be revered rather than feared
Chameleonic Text: Peritextual Transformation in Fatima Mernissi's Dreams of Trespass and Nisa' ‘Ala Ajnihat Al-hilm
This article examines the reasons for and effects of the differing peritextual elements (especially photographs and packaging) between Fatima Mernissi's original autobiography (written in English for an American and European audience) and its translated Arabic version published in Morocco. It focuses on how and why such texts might be radically transformed to address a particular readership
My Qarina, My Self: The Homoerotic as Islamic Feminism in Alifa Rifaat's “My World of the Unknown”
In Alifa Rifaat's "My World of the Unknown," the female narrator's homoerotic encounter with a djinn functions as a radical brand of Islamic feminism that challenges Arabo-Islamic cultural perceptions of female sexuality as threatening. Rifaat reinterprets Islamic teachings and Arabic folklore to show how women's sexuality must be revered rather than feared
Bad Girls of the Arab World
Explores the new ‘bad girls’ of Sudanese music as they defy national boundaries to bring women’s perspectives and critiques to a global audience. Performers such as Alsarah and Rasha have access to a world music stage to comment upon gender and racial hierarchies, chide Sudanese power brokers about their transgressions, and encourage a more inclusive and just society. Pushback against new voices have included charges in the public domain (e.g. Yo…
Go Underground, Young Women
Readings of the Egyptian writer Miral al-Tahawy’s first novel, al-Khibaʾ (1996), typically view it as autobiographical, casting its first-person narrator Fatima as the author’s oppressed double. Equally dismissive, nonautobiographical readings cast her as passive “madwoman.” This article argues that an autobiographical reading attentive to Fatima’s style, language, and technique reveals her to be al-Tahawy’s dramatized interpretation of her writi…
In Loving Memory
Understand this. We never believed that a giant’s heart could be punctured by fumbling, undeserving fingers. I will not say that the how does not matter now. The hows of death matter—especially of women giants.I hold close this soundless memory from the summer of 1993, like a soft-glowing crystal ball surrounded by delicate cotton-fog— walking up the steps of the humanities building at the University of Jordan to get to the English Departmentmaki…
Every Campus A Refuge
Every Campus A Refuge is a novel initiative whereby college campuses provide housing and support to refugees navigating the resettlement process in the United States. This article details the founding and development of the Every Campus A Refuge initiative, particularly as it has been implemented at Guilford College, a small liberal arts college in North Carolina. It also details how Guilford College faculty and students are engaging in a multifa…
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