Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
ABOUT
Ali Almajnooni is a creative writer, translator and critic from Saudi Arabia. His published work includes two collections of short fiction and a children’s novel. His critical pieces have appeared in Arabic newspapers such as AlHayat and Al-Watan. His Arabic translation of Nella Larsen’s Passing and Carson McCullers' The Ballad of the Sad Cafe were published in 2015 and 2016 respectively. He is currently a comparative literature and translation studies PhD student at Binghamton University.
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Comparative
Arab Studies
Arabic
Cultural Studies
Drama
Folklore/Folklife
Identity/Representation
Media
Middle East/Near East Studies
Pop Culture
Sociolinguistics
Theory
Translation
Modernization
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Arab States
Arabian Peninsula
Saudi Arabia
Specialties
Comparative Literature, World Literature
Translation Studies
Cultural Studies
Languages
Arabic (native)
English (advanced)
Spanish (elementary)
German (elementary)
Education
PhD
| 2018
| Comparative Literature and Translation Studies
| SUNY at Binghamton
MA
| 2016
| Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies
| University of Arkansas
MA
| 2014
| Literature and Criticism
| Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Abstracts
Riddled Performances: History and Memory in the Tribal Poetry of Saudi Arabia
The Musealization of Saudi Arabia’s New Image: The Politics of a National Discourse in an International Context
Desert Literature in the Arab World: Modernity, the Nation-State, and the Novel
