Raja Khaleel Al-Khalili
Biographic Data
| ID | 8747333 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Raja Khaleel Al-Khalili |
| GIVEN NAMES | Raja Khaleel |
| FAMILY NAME | Al-Khalili |
| SIGNATURE | AL-KHALILI R K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hashemite University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0424-6895 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Gender, colonialism, and cultural resistance in The Playboy of the Western World
J. M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World remains a site of cultural controversy, yet scholarly focus on its nationalist reception has often overlooked how resistance operates as a dramatic practice. This paper reinterprets the play through postcolonial and feminist lenses, arguing that Synge’s female characters embody a subtle but significant cultural resistance to British imperial homogenization. Resistance appears not as ideology but as t…
Displacement and Acculturation in Ghada Karmi’s In Search of Fatima
This article draws on John Berry’s acculturation theory to explore the acculturation process of the Karmi family into English culture as presented in the 2002 memoir In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story. According to Berry, acculturation involves a dual process of cultural and psychological change, which occurs when individuals from different cultural backgrounds come into continuous contact. Based on the relation of individuals to their cult…
Echoes of a streetcar named Desire in Egyptian cinema
The paper investigates the adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire into three Arabic films, analyzing their cultural significance and enduring popularity in the Arab world. Central to the study are two key questions: How do the three Arab adaptations reflect universal themes such as love, revenge, and class struggle within Arab sociopolitical contexts? And how do the adaptations reinterpret the play’s commentary on gender dynam…
The Denial and Empowerment of Modern Arab Women Writers
The Immigrant Critic as a Writer
In the early twentieth century, many Arab American writers who were recent immigrants to the United States considered themselves pioneers with a global vision. Many of them were suffering from feelings of alienation because they came from poor backgrounds and escaped to find that capitalism governs everyday living. Therefore, the main interest of the leading writers was promoting more spirituality in their literary works, especially by those who …
Interpreting and Power
This article investigates the damage enforced on interpreters in colonial and postcolonial settings. It explores the subordination of an African interpreter working for an American missionary in the Congo, as presented in Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible (1998). This is an unexplored area in the novel, and the article shows how the interpreter falls amongst the subaltern groups. The intertwined narratives about the colonization of the Co…
Suicide in Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina (1877), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Sorrows of Young Werther (1774), and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958)
This paper studies the idea of identity loss and suicide in three novels that have different cultural backgrounds. These novels are Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina (1877), Johann Wolfgang Goethe’s Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958). The paper discusses the theme of suicide in all of these three novels through concentrating on one major aspect which is individuality. Okonkow in Things Fall Apart, Anna in Anna …
Sudanese Women, Slavery, and Race in Samiha Khrais’s Novel Slaves’ Peanuts
This study shows how the contemporary novel Slaves’ Peanuts (2016) by the Jordanian novelist Samiha Khrais presents slavery as a dilemma in the late twentieth century in Sudan. The novel provides a fairly grim and evocative depiction of the enslavement of women in a non-slavery era, bringing to mind the notorious involvement of Portugal in the slave trade during colonial times, and the implications of that colonial involvement on modern-day “Thir…
“Tradition” in T.S. Eliot’s The Family Reunion and Mikhail Na’ima’s Aba’ wa al Bnun (Parents and Sons)
This study examines the analogous qualities between T. S. Eliot and Mikhail Na’ima’s definition of “tradition” and how the concept is applied in The Family Reunion (1939), a play in verse written by Eliot and Aba’ wa al Bnun (Parents and Sons) (1917), a colloquial drama composed by Na’ima. As influential critics, both writers used “tradition” as a vehicle for the promotion of a new definition of culture. Therefore, Terry Eagleton’s Idea of Cultur…
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“Tradition” in T.S. Eliot’s The Family Reunion and Mikhail Na’ima’s Aba’ wa al Bnun (Parents and Sons)
This study examines the analogous qualities between T. S. Eliot and Mikhail Na’ima’s definition of “tradition” and how the concept is applied in The Family Reunion (1939), a play in verse written by Eliot and Aba’ wa al Bnun (Parents and Sons) (1917), a colloquial drama composed by Na’ima. As influential critics, both writers used “tradition” as a vehicle for the promotion of a new definition of culture. Therefore, Terry Eagleton’s Idea of Cultur…
Suicide in Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina (1877), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Sorrows of Young Werther (1774), and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958)
This paper studies the idea of identity loss and suicide in three novels that have different cultural backgrounds. These novels are Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina (1877), Johann Wolfgang Goethe’s Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958). The paper discusses the theme of suicide in all of these three novels through concentrating on one major aspect which is individuality. Okonkow in Things Fall Apart, Anna in Anna …
Sudanese Women, Slavery, and Race in Samiha Khrais’s Novel Slaves’ Peanuts
This study shows how the contemporary novel Slaves’ Peanuts (2016) by the Jordanian novelist Samiha Khrais presents slavery as a dilemma in the late twentieth century in Sudan. The novel provides a fairly grim and evocative depiction of the enslavement of women in a non-slavery era, bringing to mind the notorious involvement of Portugal in the slave trade during colonial times, and the implications of that colonial involvement on modern-day “Thir…
The Immigrant Critic as a Writer
In the early twentieth century, many Arab American writers who were recent immigrants to the United States considered themselves pioneers with a global vision. Many of them were suffering from feelings of alienation because they came from poor backgrounds and escaped to find that capitalism governs everyday living. Therefore, the main interest of the leading writers was promoting more spirituality in their literary works, especially by those who …
Interpreting and Power
This article investigates the damage enforced on interpreters in colonial and postcolonial settings. It explores the subordination of an African interpreter working for an American missionary in the Congo, as presented in Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible (1998). This is an unexplored area in the novel, and the article shows how the interpreter falls amongst the subaltern groups. The intertwined narratives about the colonization of the Co…
Displacement and Acculturation in Ghada Karmi’s In Search of Fatima
This article draws on John Berry’s acculturation theory to explore the acculturation process of the Karmi family into English culture as presented in the 2002 memoir In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story. According to Berry, acculturation involves a dual process of cultural and psychological change, which occurs when individuals from different cultural backgrounds come into continuous contact. Based on the relation of individuals to their cult…
Echoes of a streetcar named Desire in Egyptian cinema
The paper investigates the adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire into three Arabic films, analyzing their cultural significance and enduring popularity in the Arab world. Central to the study are two key questions: How do the three Arab adaptations reflect universal themes such as love, revenge, and class struggle within Arab sociopolitical contexts? And how do the adaptations reinterpret the play’s commentary on gender dynam…
The Denial and Empowerment of Modern Arab Women Writers
Gender, colonialism, and cultural resistance in The Playboy of the Western World
J. M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World remains a site of cultural controversy, yet scholarly focus on its nationalist reception has often overlooked how resistance operates as a dramatic practice. This paper reinterprets the play through postcolonial and feminist lenses, arguing that Synge’s female characters embody a subtle but significant cultural resistance to British imperial homogenization. Resistance appears not as ideology but as t…
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