Sabry Hafez

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Qatar University

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University of Cyprus

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Università degli Studi di Parma (Italy)

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Università degli Studi "La Sapienza" di Roma

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University of Cassino and Southern Latium

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Cairo University

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Urban Change and Literary Transformation: The Egyptian Novel in the 1990s

Sensibilities of the Islamic Mediterranean, 2008

Page 356. The Arabic novel has undergone major changes in the last two decades, not only in terms... more

Literary reviews

Third World Quarterly, Oct 1, 1989

Happy endingsLove in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez Translated from the Spanish by Ed... more Happy endingsLove in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman London: Jonathan Cape. 1988. 352pp. £12.95hbEva Luna Isabel Allende Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden London: Hamish Hamilton. 1989. 272pp. £11.95hbProtean sophisticationThe Buenos Aires Affair Manuel Puig Translated from the Spanish by Suzanne Jill Levine London: Faber &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp; Faber, 1989. 219pp.

Tendències modernistes en el teatre àrab

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3 Badawi: An Academic with a Vision. A Personal Testimony

Studying Modern Arabic Literature, 2015

Interview with Sabry Hafez, Abbas Al-Tonsi, and Mona Abousenna

Jameson on Jameson, 2007

The Modern Arabic Short Story: Problematics of Scholarship

Journal of Arabic Literature, 1992

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Cultural Journals and Modern Arabic Literature: A Historical Overview

Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, 2017

Al Naqd al-Ghrabi wa-' l-Naqd al- 'Aarabi

Atyaf Taduqq Naqus al-Khatar Li-Tadahwur al-Jami' ah al-Misriyyah

The Novel of the Desert: Poetics of space and Dialectics of freedom

Hafez, Sabry (2002) 'The Novel of the Desert, Poetics of Space and Dialectics of Freedom.&#x... more

The Novel, Politics and Islam

On April 28th of this year an impassioned appeal appeared in Cairo, blazoned across the pages of ... more On April 28th of this year an impassioned appeal appeared in Cairo, blazoned across the pages of the newspaper alSha‘b. Entitled ‘Who Pledges to Die with Me?’, it was a ferocious attack on a novel published in Egypt some months earlier, Walimah li-A‘shab al-Bahr (Banquet for Seaweed), calling it a blasphemous work by an apostate who merited assassination. Uproar ensued. Mosques thundered at the discovery of this infamy. The novel was withdrawn. Judges and police interrogated intellectuals and offi cials in the Ministry of Culture. Students demonstrated, and armoured cars rolled into the streets. Debate raged in the National Assembly, and the activities of a political party were suspended. Two different government committees were set up to investigate the affair. A torrent of articles and declarations, for and against the book at issue, poured off the presses. In Yemen, in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait analogous campaigns were triggered. Though the Arab world has seen not a few cultural or...

Sexual Politics and Narrative Strategies in Modern Arabic Literature

This paper investigates the relationship between language, gender and identity as an introduction... more This paper investigates the relationship between language, gender and identity as an introduction to its study of the nature of the literary discourse of women writers in modem Arabic literature. It offers a triadic typology of the development of feminist awareness in the Arab world and posits a homological relationship between this typology, changes in class background of the writers and their perception of national identity.

La nueva novela egipcia

... la obra de los grandes escritores egipcios mo-dernos, desde Muhammad al-Muwailihi, Muhammad H... more

World Literature after Orientalism: The Enduring Lure of the Occident

This article examines the category Weltliteratur in the context of various models that attempt to... more This article examines the category Weltliteratur in the context of various models that attempt to provide a systematic account of its development, by Moretti, Casanova, and Damrosch, and elucidates the various debates these engendered. It demonstrates how the epistemological critique of power and domination initiated by Said's Orientalism is effective in deconstructing the latent Orientalism implicit in them. It takes account of the enduring lure of the Occident and its traces on the genesis of the Arabic novel, suggesting that Said's "secular criticism" helps to overcome the problems inherent in the various theories of "world literature." ********** In a conference on World Literature located in Istanbul in 2008, one of the panels to which I contributed was entitled "Literature after Orientalism." (1) The title begs the question of what the organizers meant by "after." Most certainly, the title does not mean that literature before Ori...

The Genesis Of Arabic Narrative Discourse

10. Edward Said in Contemporary Arabic Culture

Edward Said

The Egyptian Novel in the Sixties

... 1964, and al-Dhubab wa-l-kbald&amp;#x27;, 1967; cAbd al-Wahhab al-Aswani, Salmd al-Aswdni... more

THE NEW EGYPTIAN NOVEL Urban Transformation and Narrative Form

nce the cultural and political beacon of the Arab world, Cairo is now close to becoming the regio... more nce the cultural and political beacon of the Arab world, Cairo is now close to becoming the region's social sump. The population of this megalopolis has swollen to an estimated 17 million, more than half of whom live in the sprawling selfbuilt neighbourhoods and shantytowns that ring the ancient heart of the city and its colonial-era quarters. Since the late 1970s, the regime's liberalization policy-infitah, or 'open door'-combined with the collapse of the developmentalist model, a deepening agrarian crisis and accelerated rural-urban migration, have produced vast new zones of what the French call 'mushroom city'. The Arabic term for them al-madun al-'ashwa'iyyah might be rendered 'haphazard city'; the root means 'chance'. These zones developed after the state had abandoned its role as provider of affordable social housing, leaving the field to the private sector, which concentrated on building middle and upper-middle-class accommodation, yielding higher returns. The poor took the matter into their own hands and, as the saying goes, they did it poorly.

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Raqsh al- Dhat: Tahawwulat al- Istratigiyyat al Nassiyyah fi al- Sirah al-Dhatiyyah (Embellishing the self: Transformation of Textual Strategies in Autobiography)

... Hafez, Sabry (2002) 'Raqsh al-Dhat: Tahawwulat al-Istratigiyyat al Nassiyyah fi al-Sirah... more

Badawi: An Academic With a Vision. A Personal Testimony

Edinburgh University Press

In this chapter, the author offers a personal testimony about his interaction with Mustafa Badawi... more In this chapter, the author offers a personal testimony about his interaction with Mustafa Badawi as well as the latter's contribution to the study of both Arabic and English literature. The author remembers the day he returned to Oxford University to take part in a colloquium commemorating Badawi's life and work; it was also the fortieth anniversary of his arrival in Oxford for the first time in March 1973, thanks to Badawi's insight and initiative. He also cites two Egyptian critics who studied in the West before Badawi's generation, Muhammad Mandur and Luwis ʻAwad. In addition, he discusses Badawi's cultural formation and university education, particularly in Alexandria University, and talks about how Badawi opened new venues for Arabic literary criticism and modern Arabic literature in Oxford, and later in London. Finally, the author shares some of the many lessons he learnt from Badawi.