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Hanan Al-Alawi
Pennsylvania State University
Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
Email: [email protected]
442 Burrowes Building, University Park
Pennsylvania State University
State College PA 16802
United States
ABOUT
Hanan Al-Alawi is a dual-title PhD candidate in Comparative Literature and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her research focuses on body politics and forms of dispossession in contemporary Arabic and Persian literature in the Gulf.
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Arab Studies
Arabic
Cinema/Film
Comparative
Cultural Studies
Gender/Women's Studies
Gulf Studies
Iranian Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Persian
Geographic Areas of Interest
Gulf
Iran
Iraq
Specialties
Gulf And Persian Studies Women's, Gender, Sexuali
Languages
Arabic (native)
Persian (intermediate)
English (fluent)
French (elementary)
Abstracts
Dismemberment and Extraction in the Arab Gulf in Buthaynah al-Isa's Khara'it al-tih "In a Forest of Translations": Embodied Dispossession in the Language of Mona Kareem's 2019s Femme Ghosts Iterations of Indigeneity In Mortaḍā Gzār’s Hāthā al-Nahru Ya‘rifu Ismī (The River Knows My Name)