A work of fiction inspired by the life of Yang Nai-Pieng, a chef who left China in the 1950s shortly after the People's Republic was established. As Yang traverses the high seas, the halls of an American embassy, the palace of the last Iranian Shah, and finally, an Arizona cattl…
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My dissertation, The Cairo Letters , is a collection of poems that draws largely on the epistolary tradition. One section describes a series of letters I received from a first love living in Cairo, Egypt. They were long and lonesome and though I have the originals, the poems att…
This study is concerned with the process of the making of a postcolonial poet persona where the poet is addressing multiple audiences and is trying to speak for, and speak to, multiple constituencies through poetry. The poets examined here, Rabindranath Tagore, Derek Walcott, an…
I am settling into a sincere appreciation of the unassuming power of dust. It is the essence of life from which all beings are created. There is a certain persistence in dust's ability to drift and dance defying stillness, until it eventually settles and clings to things more st…
The eminent biologist E.O. Wilson theorizes a unity of knowledge for all fields of study. Claiming that all knowledge springs from a basis in physics and continues to chemistry, biology, social sciences, and into humanities and even religion, Wilson then assumes that all knowled…
The following novel is the third draft of my creative thesis entitled Dancing in the Ashes . It is an exploration of the Detroit rave scene in its dying days, and it mixes real and imagined places and events in order to portray the essence of that time, if not the factuality. Th…
Playful Citizens explores the contemporary novel, especially as written by Canadians, in terms of how it deals with ideas about play, game, and sex, and how it relates these ideas to constructions of civic responsibility. Considered as strategies for human interaction, play, gam…
This dissertation examines the anti-war, anti-militarist tradition of American literature and film from Joseph Heller's Catch-22 (1961) to the most recent documentaries about the ongoing Iraq War. This dissident, deeply humanist tradition has been, in Western art, a central feat…
This dissertation studies the production of the self and the city in women’s testimonies of the Arab Uprisings (2011-2018). I look at the ways in which women intellectuals and activists from North Africa and West Asia understand the dynamics of margin and center from their posit…
In African scholarship, there has been unwavering interest in gender concerns especially with regards to femininity and the expectations from the sexes. Research has also established that the socio-cultural and political structure of many Africa cultures disempowers women; deny …
Research on the Ottomans during the Renaissance and early modern periods has primarily fallen into a dichotomy of fear and fascination—that is, either in scholarship that centers on the prejudice with which the Spanish viewed the East Mediterranean Orient, or, less often, critic…
The Hero & the Victim: Narratives of Criminality in Iraq War Fiction analyzes several works of literary fiction, and one popular memoir, by American authors about the U.S. military experience in the Iraq War from 2003 to 2011. In contrast to the emphasis of most ancient war lite…
This dissertation examines the contemporary genre of prison literature (adab al-sijn ) in Syria and its connections to avant-garde Arabic literary experimentalism and global human rights discourse. Through readings of various literary works produced in, through, and about the ex…
This dissertation is a study of the works of the late Egyptian novelist Albert Cossery. The goals of the dissertation are four-fold. The first part of the dissertation is a historical study of Egyptian franco-philia. The aim is to show the deep impact of the cultural and linguis…
Günlük türünün edebiyatımız içerisindeki seyri iki şekilde değerlendirilir. İlk değerlendirme türün geçmişteki bazı türlerin bir devamı olduğu yönündeyken, ikinci değerlendirme 19. yüzyıldan itibaren modernleşen edebiyatımızın ve bu modernleşme ile birlikte edebiyatımıza giren b…
As cities become more globalized due to technological advances and increasingly interconnected flows of humans, capital, and goods, movement of people into new spaces has raised questions about belonging and identity within a global system of national boundaries. Ideas about imm…
This dissertation focuses on the use of the al-Andalus myth and its articulation of Spanish identity via the so-called textos africanistas, which are a series of chronicles and literary works written in response to the 1859 Spanish invasion of Morocco. In the 19th and 20th centu…
Four years after the publication of the novel The Museum of Innocence (2008), the Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk founded a museum with the same name in Istanbul to serve as the physical counterpart of the novel. In the same year, he published a compelling catalog—The Innocence of …