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Jamila Davey
University of Texas at Austin
Occupation
Lecturer
Contact
Discipline
Language
Sub Areas
Islamic Studies
Gender/Women's Studies
Arabic
Comparative
Geographic Areas of Interest
Algeria
Egypt
Islamic World
Maghreb
Specialties
Women And Gender In Islam And Muslim Societies
Medieval Arabo-Islamic Literature And Poetics
Modern Readings Of Islamic Texts In Arabic, French
Languages
French (advanced)
Arabic (advanced)
Education
PhD | 2019 | Comparative Literature | The University of Texas at Austin
MA | 2012 | Middle Eastern Studies | The University of Texas at Austin
Abstracts
Unruly Voices: Reimagining Ideal Muslim Women in Assia Djebar's "Far from Madina" Journeying Beyond Representationalism in al-Shanfará’s Lamiyyat al-ʿArab Gender, Audience and Authority: The Survival of Female Voices in Ibn Tayfur’s Balaghat al-Nisa’ The Beauty of Joseph and the Gendered Gaze: Assia Djebar’s Literary Account of Sura XII