:مجال التميز |
تميز دراسي و بحثي |
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البحوث المنشورة |
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:البحث (1) |
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:عنوان البحث |
Al-Ṭahṭāwī in Paris: Western Influence on Format and Style in Early Modern Arabic Travel Literature |
:رابط إلى البحث | http://www.journals.aiac.org.au/index.php/alls/article/view/4099 |
:تاريخ النشر |
26/01/2018 |
:موجز عن البحث |
This study investigates format and style in the first modern Arab travel source, Takhliṣ al-Ibriz fī Talkhiṣ Paris, written by Sheikh al-Ṭahṭāwī in the 19th century. During this century, the connection between the Eastern Self and the Western Other became closer and more immediate culturally and politically, which undeniably impacted literature on both thematic and artistic levels. This paper addresses the extent to which the format and style of al-Ṭahṭāwī was influenced by the Other and to determine how these artistic aspects had changed and were distinct from those aspects in medieval travel literature. |
:البحث (2) |
Book Review |
:عنوان البحث | Modern woman in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia: rights, challenges and achievements |
:رابط إلى البحث | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13530194.2018.1507432 |
:تاريخ النشر | 24/08/2018 |
:موجز عن البحث |
Hend T. al-Sudairy’s Modern Woman in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Rights, Challenges and Achievements details the lives, achievements, and challenges of Saudi women in the past 100 years. From her insider’s perspective, al-Sudairy discusses the alienation of Saudi women, even from other Arabs, inflicted by social, cultural, and patriarchal forces—including the predominantly male writers, Saudi or Western, supportive or inimical, who have falsely represented them as ignorant and oppressed or extravagant and luxurious. Advocating for twenty-first-century Saudi women as highly educated, professionally competent participants in the reforming of the state, al-Sudairy scrutinizes the reactionary beliefs and practices limiting their empowerment and documents their struggles to overcome these. |
:البحث (3) | |
:عنوان البحث | Shifting Perceptions of Orient and Occident in Nineteenth-Century Arabic Travel Writing |
:رابط إلى البحث | https://muse.jhu.edu/article/747189/pdf |
:تاريخ النشر | 01/12/2018 |
:موجز عن البحث | This study investigates the relationship between the Eastern Self and the Western Other by focusing on the influence of the French Other on the ideology of the Arab Self in modern Arabic travel literature. As a case study, the analysis has been conducted on Takhlīṣ al-Ibriz fī Talkhīṣ Paris [‘The extraction of pure gold in the abridgement of Paris’]. The 19th century, from which this source originates, is considered to be significant in terms of distinguishing modern travelogue literature from that of the medieval period, where the image of the Western Other in Arabs’ imagination dramatically changed due to colonialism. As one of the richest and most open approaches in textual analysis, the study adopts the thematic approach to shed light on the extent to which the ideological impact of the Other on the political, religious, civil and social domains of the Self can be seen in this wide-ranging travel source. The study infers that al-Ṭahṭāwī was greatly ideologically impacted by West in all of the allocated domains, as can be seen clearly in his comprehensive comparisons, descriptions and explanations. This influence is indeed what distinguishes this modern travelogue literature from the medieval ones. |
المؤتمرات العلمية |
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:المؤتمر (1) |
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:عنوان المؤتمر |
The International Conference on Gender Studies “Gender (Mis)Representations” |
:تاريخ الإنعقاد |
1-2 December 2018 |
:مكان الإنعقاد |
Cambridge, UK |
:طبيعة المشاركة |
Oral presentation |
:عنوان المشاركة |
Gender Bias: Questioning the Critical Reception of Saudi Women’s Fiction in Saudi Arabia |
:ملخص المشاركة | This present study addresses why many Saudi and Arab male literary critics have either ignored or decried novels written by the early Saudi female novelists in their studies and research, and which criteria they adopt to evaluate and criticize such early texts. To achieve this, the paper first reviews their critical studies to specify their main criteria and measurements, before exploring them in a wider context of Saudi novelistic domain, regardless of the gender of the author. The paper determines that Saudi female works of the pre-1980s had been received oddly compared to work written by males, as such critics neglected female works due to the limitation of the literary quality, the fact that these works do not belong to what is accepted as the Saudi social and cultural environment, or that they do not represent Saudi women’s reality and issues. These are the core criteria of their crucial criticism, which can also uncover that gender bias is what controls their criteria as, according to their criteria, many of the early Saudi male fictional samples should also not be considered valuable and belonging to the Saudi environment. |
:المؤتمر (2) |
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:عنوان المؤتمر |
4th Academic International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities |
:تاريخ الإنعقاد |
07/12/2017 |
:مكان الإنعقاد |
Cambridge, UK |
:طبيعة المشاركة |
Paper presentation |
:عنوان المشاركة |
HIERARCHICAL SOCIAL CLASS SYSTEM IN SAUDI ARABIA: THE SAUDI WOMEN’S NOVEL, PRE-1990 |
:ملخص المشاركة |
This paper examines the motivations for the prominence of the hierarchical social class system in Saudi Arabian society as the main issue in the Saudi women’s novel before 1990. During this early literary phase, Saudi women novelists raised this culturally and socially significant and sensitive issue in their texts, particularly the ways in which it was employed against women. Why was this reflected as the main issue in such texts rather than more specifically patriarchal or religious concerns? The investigation is observed from the analysis of three samples that have the social lineaments of the most important and productive Saudi female novelists in this period. Samīra Khāshuggī is characterized by her productivity as she published six novels, and as the pioneer of the Saudi women’s novel, being the first Saudi female novelist. Hudā al-Rasheed and Amal Shaṭa represent the artistic development of Saudi women writers, by contrast with previous novelistic output which is generally considered inferior by Saudi literary critics. The thematic approach is adopted as it is one of the most open approaches, due to its ability and flexibility in the analysis and description of literary texts. In addition, since the paper treats fictional literature as an authentic vehicle for Saudi women to express their needs, concerns and potentially highly controversial ideas, the methodology adopts the practical tools: descriptive and analytical. They can help in reading the novels critically as well as uncovering the novelists’ reasons for writing these novels. The paper finds that the early novels discussed the social class system as a form of rebellion and reaction against the patriarchal social traditions and habits of Saudi society. In addition, the theme of marriage exists prominently as the umbrella for these discussions. Further, such highlighting of this important issue coincided with the popularity of melodrama and romance along with the trend towards realism in Egypt which dominated Saudi literature in general, regardless of the writer’s gender. |
إبراهيم خلوفه إبراهيم المرحبي
دكتوراه
العلوم الإنسانية والإجتماعية
University of Manchester