About
Ishak Berrebbah is a doctoral researcher, a teaching associate at Coventry University, UK, and an associate fellow of higher education academy. He researches contemporary Arab Diaspora and its literature . The theoretical framework of his research holds interdisciplinary perspectives: postcolonial, political, feminist, and socio-cultural. He was awarded a fully-funded scholarship in 2016 to pursue his PhD degree in the United Kingdom. He has published in the field of English Literature and has contributed to many international peer-reviewed journals of English studies and has also presented many research papers at several international conferences. His research interests intersect with Diaspora studies, Gender Studies, Postcolonial literature, and Arab Literature in English. Education
PhD in English [Language, Literature and Culture Studies] (2017-2021), Coventry University. UK.
PG Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (2021), Coventry University. UK.
Master Degree (2014-2016) English Literature and Civilization, Dr Tahar Moulay University, Algeria.
EUROLTA (2018-2019) European Certificate in Language Teaching to Adults, Berlin. Germany.
The Linguae Mundi Certificate in Teaching Foreign Languages (2018-2019), Coventry University. UK.
PG Certificate in Research Skills Development (2016-2017), Canterbury Christ Church University. UK. Publications
Berrebbah, I. Long-distance Nationalism in Diana Abu-Jaber’s Crescent”. Journal of Nationalism, Memory, and Language Politics. 15(1). 1-23. 2021.
Berrebbah, I. “Women in Cultural Insularity and Anxious Spaces in the Arab and Arab American Contexts in Laila Halaby’s West of the Jordan”. Anglo Saxonica. 19(1). 1-13. 2021.
Berrebbah, I. “Between the Hammer and the Anvil: Complex Status of Women in Contemporary Arab American Women’s Fiction”. Explorations: A Journal of Language and Literature. (9). 19
Berrebbah, I. “Understanding the Function of Empathy through Laila Halaby’s West of the Jordan (2003)”. Prague Journal of English Studies. 10(1). 75-90. 2021.
Berrebbah, I. “Neither Here nor There: An Interview with Laila Halaby”. Commonwealth Essays and Studies. 43(1). 1-13. 2021.
Berrebbah, I. “An Interview with Sahar Mustafah”. Transatlantica: French Journal of American Studies. (2). 1-11. 202
Berrebbah, I. “The Power of Recipes: Culinary Practice as a Strategy to Deconstruct Arab- American Identity in Diana Abu-Jaber’s Crescent”. Prague Journal of English Studies. 9(1). 115-132. 2020.
