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Sami Alkyam
Allegheny College
Occupation
Assistant Professor
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ABOUT
I work on the manifestation/s of dictators and dictatorships in contemporary literary genres—the representation of its various configurations, and the politics of re/writing history. Specifically, I focus on contemporary Arabic novels that call attention to the parallel/s between narrative and the rhetorical processes and structures that once played a role in empowering dictators and helping them to create a godly-like figures of themselves.
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
African Studies
Arab Studies
Arab-Israeli Conflict
Arabic
Language Acquisition
Geographic Areas of Interest
Arab States
Africa (Sub-Saharan)
All Middle East
Specialties
Modern Arabic Literature And Cultural Studies; Gen
Languages
Arabic (native)
English (fluent)
Spanish (intermediate)
French (elementary)
Education
PhD | 2016 | African Languages and Literature | University of Wisconsin Madison
MA | 2009 | African Languages and Literature | University Of Wisconsin-Madison
MA | 2006 | Applied Linguistics | Jordan University of Science and Technology
BA | 2001 | English Literature | Yarmouk University
Abstracts
Error Analysis in Second Language Writing: Case study of Arabic The Rape of the Female Body as an Allegory for the Rape of a Nation: Exposing the Ugliness of Dictatorship in Ṭā’ir al-Kharāb Language and the Poetics of Home and Dislocation in the Writing of the Syrian Poet Mostafa Haj Hussein Poetry and Righting: How do you think I feel?