Publications
Journal articles:
“Songs of Nostalgia: Creative Activism and Exile in Elia Suleiman’s
It Must be Heaven and Panah Panahi’s
Hit the Road,”
Regards, La Revue Des Arts Du Spectacle, 2023: 30 (73-90).
“Against Stereotypical Representations: On young Saudi directors,”
Film International, 2023 20 (4), 84-97, DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17613/5vha-ht43.
“J M Coetzee’s ‘Jesus’ Trilogy: A Search for Answers,
Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa, 2023: 35:1, 43-51, DOI: 10.1080/1013929X.2023.2167405.
“What Does a Nascent Film Movement of Popular Genres Reveal About Emirati Culture?”
Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 2023: DOI: 10.1080/10509208.2023.2181921
“Suppressed Narrator, Silenced Victim in Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail,” Janus Unbound:
Journal of Critical Studies; 2022: 2 (1): 12-26.
“Giving a Face to the Silenced Victims: Recent Documentaries on Gaza,”
Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 2022: 9 (1): 120-138.
https://doi.org/10.1080/10509208.2020.1818531
“Suppressed Nakba Memories in Palestinian female narratives: Susan Abulhawa’s
The Blue Between Sky and Water and Radwa Ashour’s
The Woman from Tantoura”
Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 24 (4): 567-585. 2022: DOI: 10.1080/1369801X.2021.1892513
Hania A.M. Nashef (2021) “The right to narrate”: Gazans contest popular geopolitics with film,
Journal of Postcolonial Writing, DOI:
10.1080/17449855.2021.1963311
“Suppressed Nakba Memories in Palestinian female narratives: Susan Abulhawa’s
The Blue Between Sky and Water and Radwa Ashour’s
The Woman from Tantoura.”
Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, DOI: 10.1080/1369801X.2021.1892513
“Against a reading of a sacred landscape: Raja Shehadeh rewrites the Palestinian presence in
Palestinian Walks,
Prose Studies (2020): DOI:
10.1080/01440357.2020.1850168
“Giving a Face to the Silenced Victims: Recent Documentaries on Gaza”
Quarterly Review of Film and Video (2020):
DOI:
10.1080/10509208.2020.1818531
“‘Nothing is Left to Tell’: Beckettian Despair and Hope in the Arab World,”
Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd’hui 31 (2019) 201–218. doi:10.1163/18757405-03102002
“Coming of Age in Troubled Times:
Son of Babylon and Theeb.”
Film International (2018): 16 (2): 24-32.
“Two memories: Darwish and Shehadeh recount their days under siege,”
Prose Studies: History, Theory, Criticism DOI: 10.1080/01440357.2016.1269452 (2017).
“Challenging the myth of ‘a land without a people’: Darwish’s
Journal of Ordinary Grief and
In the Presence of Absence,”
The Journal of Commonwealth Literature (2016).
“Virtuality and différance in the age of the hyperreal”
Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication, 7:1 (2016).
“Demythologizing the Palestinian in Hany Abu-Assad’s
Omar and
Paradise Now,”
Transnational Cinemas, 6:3 (2015).
“Specters of Doom: Saramago’s Dystopias in
Blindness and
The Cave,”
Orbis Litterarum, 70: 3 (2015).
“أهلاً, hello and bonjour: a postcolonial analysis of Arab media’s use of code switching and mixing and its ramification on the identity of the self in the Arab world”
International Journal of Multilingualism, 10:3 (2013).
“Abu Ghraib and Beyond: Torture as an Extension of the Desiring Machine”
Altre Modernità 8 (2013). (Translated into Turkish in 2015 by Abdurrahman Aydin, “Ebu Gureyb ve Ötesi: Arzu Makinesinin Bir Genişlemesi Olarak İşkence,”
http://www.demos.org.tr).
“Disconcerting Images: Arab Female Portrayals on Arab Television”
Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 14: 4 (2012).
“Songs and Words of the Arab Spring”
Postcolonial Studies Association Newsletter 10 (Autumn 2012).
“The blurring of boundaries: images of abjection as the terrorist and the reel Arab intersect”
Critical Studies on Terrorism, 4:3 (2012).
“The abject/the terrorist/the reel Arab—a point of intersection,”
Global Media and Communication, 7:3 (2011).
“Baal and Thoth: unwelcome apparitions in J.M. Coetzee’s The Master of Petersburg and Disgrace,”
Ariel, 41:2 (2011).
“Becomings in J.M. Coetzee’s
Waiting for the Barbarians and José Saramago’s
Blindness,”
Comparative Literature Studies, 47:1 (2010).
Chapters:
Introduction to “On Childhood, Literature, Marxism, the Front and al-Hadaf (1972).” In
Ghassan Kanafani: Selected Political Writings, eds: Louis Brehony and Tahrir Hamdi. Pluto Press, 2024.
“Elia Suleiman: a Reluctant Star” in
Arab Stardom: Transnational Glamour and Empowerment, Eds. Kaya Davies Hayon and Stefanie Van De Peer, NY: Bloomsbury Academcy, 2024.
“Canines: Unlikely Protagonists in the Novels of Coetzee, Saramago and Shibli,” in
A Responsibility to the World: Saramago, Politics, Philosophy, Eds. Burghard Baltrusch, Carlo Salzani & Kristof K. P. Vanhoutte, Berlin: Frank & Timme GmbH, 2023.
“Testimonies of War: Reportages by Samar Yazbek and Atef Abu Saif,” in
The Routledge Companion to World Literary Journalism, Eds. John S. Bak, Bill Reynolds, London/New York: Routledge, 2023.
“‘To have been and no longer be’: The Angst Towards Death in Darwish’s Mural and Saramago’s Death at Intervals,” in
Saramago After the Nobel:
Contemporary Readings of José Saramago’s Late Works, Eds. Paulo Medeiros, José Ornelas, Oxford: Peter Lang (2022).
“Waiting for the Arrivant: Godot in Two Poems by Nizar Qabbani,” in
Samuel Beckett as World Literature, Eds. Thirthankar Chakraborty, Juan Luis Toribio Vazquez, New York: Bloomsbury (2020).
“Virtual Space: Palestinians negotiate a lost homeland in film,” in
Reimagining Communication:
Experience, Eds. Michael Filimowicz, Veronika Tzankova, New York: Routledge (2020).
“Resisting the cul-de-sac in
Disgrace,
Master of Petersburg and
Life & Times of Michael K,” in
J.M. Coetzee: Dead Ends and Beyond, Eds. Ludmila Gruszewska-Blaim, Tomasz Wisniewski, Gdansk, Poland: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdanskiego (2016).
“Let the Demon in: Death and Guilt in
The Master of Petersburg ,” in
Travelling Texts: J.M. Coetzee and Other Writers , Eds. Kucala, Bozena and Robert Kusek, Oxford: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers (2014).
“Not to Get Lost in the Loss”: Narrating the story in Barghouti’s
I was born there, I was born here and in Rohan’s
The Olive Grove—A Palestinian Story,” Culture of Rites/Rights of Grief Eds. Zbigniew Bialas, Pawel Jedrzejko and Julia Szoltysek, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Wygnanie jako trwał e rozdarcie. „Ż ycie i czasy Michaela K” oraz wspomnienia Mahmouda Darwisha.” In Wielcy artyści ucieczek. Antologia tekstów o Życiu i czasach Michaela K Johna Maxwella Coetzeego w trzydziestą rocznicę publikacji powieści , edited by Piotr Jakubowski, Malgorzata Janowska, 421-442. Kraków: korporacja ha!art.
“Jordan Unrest: Did Royal Twittering Absorb Some of the Anger?” in
Social Media Go to War : Rage, Rebellion and Revolution in the Age of Twitter Ed. Ralph D. Berenger, Marquette Books LLC.
“Barbaric Space: Portrayal of Arab Lands in Hollywood Films,” in
Popular Culture in the Middle East and North Africa : A Postcolonial Outlook. Eds. Mounira Soliman & Walid El Hamamsy, Routledge.
Books
Palestinian Culture and the Nakba: Bearing Witness (New York: Routledge, 2019).
The Politics of Humiliation in the Novels of J.M. Coetzee (New York: Routledge, 2009).
