Postcolonial discourse, the poetics of trauma, and the literature of the Palestinian diaspora.
For more than two decades, Dr. Rami Abu Shehab has read modern Arabic literature as knowledge about the wound, exile, and identity — not an object of aesthetic contemplation alone, but a narrative that resists, remembers, and re-imagines itself.
Criticism is an act of knowledge before it is a technical skill.
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The Lingering Trace and the Feint: Postcolonial Discourse in Contemporary Arabic Criticism
The Lingering Trace and the Feint: Postcolonial Discourse in Contemporary Arabic Criticism
2013·Dr. Rami Abu Shehab
This book stands in the uneasy gap between contemporary Arabic criticism and postcolonial theory — not to interrogate the theory alone, but the manner of its reception in our cultural field: how concepts are translated, and how they…
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A record of recognition
- 2014Sheikh Zayed Book Awardfor “The Lingering Trace and the Feint”
- 2014Philadelphia Award for Best Authored Book
- 2015Qatar Ministry of Culture Research Grant
- 2019Juror, Al-Multaqa Prize for the Short Story — Kuwait
- 2014Weekly column, Al-Quds Al-Arabi — Londonongoing
Dr. Rami Abu Shehab
A Palestinian critic, poet, and academic. Born in Zarqa in 1974, with a doctorate from Cairo; today a professor at Qatar University and a weekly columnist for Al-Quds Al-Arabi.
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