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Philosophische FakultätTraumanet

Dr. Dalia Said Mostafa



Publications

  • Editor of the Special Issue entitled Women, Culture, and the January 2011 Egyptian Revolution (forthcoming online in 2015 in the Journal for Cultural Research). 
  • “Jocelyne Saab (Lebanon): A Lifetime Journey in Search of Freedom and Beauty”. In: Ten Arab Filmmakers: Political Dissent and Cultural Critique. Josef Gugler (Ed.). Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=807555
  • “The Work of Filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan and a Critique of Contemporary Turkish Society” (will appear in Arabic in Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, issue 35, 2015). 

 

 

Statement on Research

My research portfolio is interdisciplinary and diverse. I have worked extensively and published on the contemporary Arabic and postcolonial novel, Arab cinema, and popular culture in Egypt. My current research focuses on the cultural elements of the 2011 January Revolution in Egypt, including literature and cinema as well as other popular cultural expressions (vernacular poetry, songs, and documentary filmmaking). As political events continue to unfold in Egypt, it will take us (academics and researchers in the Humanities) a long time to study the huge cultural output which has been produced during and after the 2011 Revolution. This cultural archive sheds light on the trajectory of this revolution, both its achievements and setbacks. My work and publications on this theme aim to document and explore the meaning and significance of literature and culture in a revolutionary context. During my postdoctoral research (2007-2011) as Fellow in Modern Arab Cultural History with the Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World (CASAW), I worked on the literary and cinematic representations of Beirut in the Lebanese novel and film during the Civil War (1975-1990) and beyond. I have a particular research interest in the representation of the “city” in the contemporary Arabic and postcolonial novel and cinema. I have published a number of studies on this topic since 2009 in both English and Arabic. I have a keen interest in expanding my research into the subject areas of Literature, Popular Culture, and Revolution. At the present time, I am in the process of writing a short book under the provisional title Multi-Layered Images of the Military Figure in Egyptian Popular Cuture: Context and Critique. My future plans include furthering my research on these topics: Women writers and artists responding to the 2011 Arab Uprisings and Revolutions; and Popular Culture and Revolution in the Middle East.

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