Maya Aghasi
Biographic Data
| ID | 9628005 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maya Aghasi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maya |
| FAMILY NAME | Aghasi |
| SIGNATURE | AGHASI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University of Sharjah |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4007-7200 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Garbage, corruption, and political protest in Lebanese literature and film
This article explores the representation of garbage in Lebanese literature and film, focusing on the children’s book, Picture Perfect (2021), by Najla El Khatib (b. 1987) and two films by director Mounia Akl (b. 1989): Submarine (al-Ghawwāṣa, 2016) and Costa Brava, Lebanon (Kūstā brāfā, 2021). Each reframes socio-political crisis, including the 2015 garbage crisis, the 2020 Beirut port explosion, and mass migration as ecological disaster. Rather …
World Literature in the World
Criticized for being too Euro- and Americentric, world literature scholarship tends to center on the American implications of this shortcoming, with little discussion of world literature beyond these centers. This paper thus addresses the function of world literature beyond these centers, particularly in the lingua franca of global business: English. Drawing from my experience in the United Arab Emirates, I argue that because students in the regi…
Remembering Genocide
Cette étude examine le cadre épistémologique d’ Ararat (Atom Egoyan, 2002) afin de comprendre le génocide arménien. Confronté à une demande de spectacle sensationnel et à l’impossibilité de le visualiser, le film Ararat montre comment narrativiser les traumatismes persistants de ce passé. L’article montre la façon dont ce film utilise la famille comme structure narrative, avec l’image sacrée de la Madone et de l’Enfant en son centre, afin d’artic…
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World Literature in the World
Criticized for being too Euro- and Americentric, world literature scholarship tends to center on the American implications of this shortcoming, with little discussion of world literature beyond these centers. This paper thus addresses the function of world literature beyond these centers, particularly in the lingua franca of global business: English. Drawing from my experience in the United Arab Emirates, I argue that because students in the regi…
Remembering Genocide
Cette étude examine le cadre épistémologique d’ Ararat (Atom Egoyan, 2002) afin de comprendre le génocide arménien. Confronté à une demande de spectacle sensationnel et à l’impossibilité de le visualiser, le film Ararat montre comment narrativiser les traumatismes persistants de ce passé. L’article montre la façon dont ce film utilise la famille comme structure narrative, avec l’image sacrée de la Madone et de l’Enfant en son centre, afin d’artic…
Garbage, corruption, and political protest in Lebanese literature and film
This article explores the representation of garbage in Lebanese literature and film, focusing on the children’s book, Picture Perfect (2021), by Najla El Khatib (b. 1987) and two films by director Mounia Akl (b. 1989): Submarine (al-Ghawwāṣa, 2016) and Costa Brava, Lebanon (Kūstā brāfā, 2021). Each reframes socio-political crisis, including the 2015 garbage crisis, the 2020 Beirut port explosion, and mass migration as ecological disaster. Rather …
Political science (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Middle East Politics and Society (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Colonialism (1 work) · Comparative and World Literature (1 work)