Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
ABOUT
Nuha Askar is a PhD candidate at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She studied Anglophone Literatures, Cultures and Media at Goethe University and graduated with a Master degree in 2019. Her dissertation examines internal struggles in the Middle East mediated in contemporary anglophone narratives of Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon. Her fully-funded project is entitled “Beyond the Single Story of the ‘Arab Nation’: Narrating Internal Dissent in Anglophone Middle Eastern Literature”.
Her research Profile: https://www.uni-frankfurt.de/99279361/Nuha_Askar
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Middle East/Near East Studies
Colonialism
Nationalism
Geographic Areas of Interest
Iraq
Syria
Lebanon
Specialties
Anglophone Middle Eastern Narratives
Postcolonial Literary Studies
Arab Nation And Nationalism
Languages
Arabic (native)
English (advanced)
German (intermediate)
Abstracts
The DeformNation Theory: The Fragmentation of the Nation in the Narratives of Postcolonial Nation-States
“Tell Me a Story”: Queer Narratives and Countercultural Memories in Ahmad Danny Ramadan’s The Clothesline Swing
