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Hanadi Al-Samman
University of Virginia
Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
Email: ha2b@virginia.edu
Secondary Phone: 434-243-4355
Middle Eastern and South Asian
University of Virginia 133 Cabell Hall, PO Box 400781
Charlottesville VA 22904-4781
United States
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Arab Studies
Arabic
Comparative
Cultural Studies
Diaspora/Refugee Studies
Identity/Representation
Middle East/Near East Studies
Queer/LGBT Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Fertile Crescent
Syria
Specialties
Arab Feminism
Comp Lit
Diaspora Stds
Languages
Arabic (native)
English (fluent)
French (intermediate)
Spanish (intermediate)
Education
PhD | 2000 | Comp Lit | Indiana U
Abstracts
Embodying Arab Lesbian Identity Muslim Women on the Move: From Local Notoriety to Global Networks Buried Cities, Resurrected Histories, and Rhizomatic Narrative in Hoda Barakat's "The Tiller of Waters" Contested Frames: Recasting Arab Muslim Womanhood in Lalla Essaydi's Art Surviving Multiple Wa'd: Samar Yazbek's A Woman in the Crossfire Witnessing Traumas, Performing Alterity in Heather Raffo’s 9 Parts of Desire Traversing Buried Cities in Samar Yazbek’s The Crossing Mapping the Borders of the Arab Closet Towards a Queer Qur’anic Tafsir Decolonizing Queer Bodies The Politics of Sexual Insult in Civil Revolutions Strangers in My House: Conspiracy Theory of Queer Representation in Arab Media