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Amal Amireh
George Mason University
Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
Secondary Phone: 703-993-3175
English Department
George Mason University 4400 University Drive MS 3E4
Fairfax VA 22030-4444
United States
ABOUT
Associate Professor of English and Postcolonial Literature at George Mason University. Graduate of Birzeit University and Boston University. Currently working on gender and nationalism in Palestinian literature.
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Arab Studies
Colonialism
Cultural Studies
Gender/Women's Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Palestine
Specialties
Arab Women
Arabic Lit & Cult, Gender & Sexuality Stds
Palestinian Lit & Cult
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
German (elementary)
Education
PhD | 1997 | English | Boston U
MA | 1988 | English | Boston U
BA | 1983 | English | Birzeit U
Abstracts
Etyan Fox's The Bubble and the Queer Demonization of Palestinians "They are Not Like Your Daughters or Mine": The Bad Girls of the Arab Spring Constructions of Feminist Subjectivities: Representations of Mothers in Arab Women’s Autobiography Heroic Contestations: Palestinian Masculinity in Post-Oslo Literature The Usable Past: Narrating History in Rabee’ Jaber’s Novel Druze Belgrade Gaza Voices: Literary Representations of Palestinian Children