1- Presentations:
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Presenter
at the International Conference on Conflict Dynamics in Arabic and World
Literature and Culture, Organized by The Journal of Arabic and World
Literature published at Andromeda and Academic Services (London, UK)
Title of the Presentation:
“Unraveling the Intrapsychic World
of Coriolanus in William Shakespeare’s Coriolanus (1605 – 1608) and
Bertolt Brecht’s Coriolan (1962): An Intertextual Web of Historical
Conflicts” (December 2024)
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Presenter
at the Second International Conference of the Faculty of Languages at MSA
University “The Posthuman Turn: Chances and Challenges”
Title of the Presentation:
“The Transition from the “Big
Brother” to the “Big Other” in Cyberpunk Fiction: A Post-Humanist Reading of
Malka Older's Infomocracy” (October 2023)
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Presenter
at the First International Conference of Alexandria University “Women of the
World: Literature, Language, and Translation”
Title of the Presentation:
"Feminist Narratology and
Discourse Disambiguation: A Reading of Ahdaf Soueif's "I Think of
You"" (March 2023)
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Presenter at the Faculty of Language Studies (MA in Literature
Program) - AOU
Title of Presentation:
“Transmedial/Contemporary/Post-classical
Narratology: A Reading of a Graphic Memoir” (March 2022)
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Presenter
at MSA University First International Conference (Translating Cultures: Theory
and Practice) in October 2019
Title of Presentation:
“Mind Presentation in Graphic
Narrative: Intercultural Encounters in Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis”.
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Presenter
at the Cairo University 14th International Symposium (Writing Across
Borders) in Nov. 2018
Title of
Presentation:
“Deconstructing and Reconstructing
Digital Narrative: The Infinity of Gaming/Meaning”
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Presenter
at the 2nd International Conference of the Faculty of Al-Alsun – Ain
Shams University in March 2018 (Narrativity: Worlds & Texts)
Title of
Presentation:
“Mind Presentation in Graphic
Narrative: A Re-contextualization of Narrative Theory”
Presenter
at the 1st International conference of the Faculty of Al-Alsun – Ain
Shams University in March 2016 (Traveling Theories)
Title
of Presentation:
“The
Politics of Fear & Its Defense Mechanisms: A Terror Management Theory
Perspective to Dystopian Discourses”
Presenter
at the Symposium of Cairo University in December 2010 (The Marginalized)
Title
of Presentation:
“Marginalized
Voices in Post-colonial Discourses: A Bakhtinian Approach to Pamuk’s Snow
and Al-Aswani’s The Yacoubian Building”
Presenter
at PALA (Poetics and Linguistics Association) conference – July 2010 – Genoa –
Italy (The Language of Landscapes)
Title
of Presentation:
“A
Cognitive Stylistic Approach to the Criminal Mind Style in Thomas Harris’s The
Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal”
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Presenter
at the Symposium of Cairo University in November 2008
(Egypt at the Crossroads)
Title of Presentation:
“Deflecting the Gaze: The Masquerade from
Greek Mythology to Egyptian &
American Cinema & TV”
Presenter
at the Symposium of Cairo University in November 2005
(Power
and the Role of the Intellectual)
Title
of Presentation:
“Seeing
through the Veil of Historical Half-truths in Peter Carey’s True History of
the Kelly Gang”
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Presenter at the ESP conference 2000
Date:
Sept. 27th, 2000 – Alex.
Title of Presentation:
“Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL)”
Other
Professional Experience
·
I
supervised a PhD thesis on Possible Worlds Theory as applied to drama and
cinema in Helwan University – Egypt.
·
Supervised
MA Dissertations:
1- Symbolic Immortality
and Transcendental Heroism in Selected Works of Sylvia Plath and Vincent Van Gogh:
A Terror Management Theory Perspective
Exploring the Deconstructed
Image of Clown Figures in It and Batman: The Killing
Joke: A Psychoanalytic Study
Between
the Pictorial and the Verbal: The Western Representation of "Othered"
Muslim Women in Deborah Ellis's Novel The Breadwinner and its
Graphic Adaptation
2-
The Angel in the
House: Gender Approaches to Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and
Its Ballet Adaptation
3-
Exploring the
Psychological Impact in Pandemics: A Comparative Study of Albert Camus’ The
Plague and Steven Soderberg’s Contagion
4-
Re-writing the History
of the Oppressed: A Comparative Study of Toni Morrison’s Beloved and
Marjane Satrapi’s Autobiographical Memoir Persepolis I
5-
Revisiting
Imperial Powers: A Post-Colonial Approach to Shakespeare’s Macbeth and
Its 2021 Film Adaptation The Tragedy of Macbeth
1-
Palestinian Resistance
and Uprising: A Cognitive Stylistic Approach to Selected Poems by Mahmoud
Darwish and Selected Palestinian Paintings
2-
Exploring
Post-colonial and Existential Dimensions in Resistant Narratives: A Comparative
Study of Ralph Ellison’s Novel Invisible Man and Jeff Wall’s Photograph After
Invisible Man- the Prologue
3-
The Role of Schematic Deviance in Generating
Meaning: A Cognitive Stylistic
Approach to the Character of the Vampire in Bram Stoker’s Dracula and
its 1992 Film Adaptation
5-
The
Intertextual Web and the Plurality of Meanings: A Comparative Study of
Sophocles’ Antigone and the 2022 Egyptian Performance of Antigone’s
Law
6-
Disambiguating
Absurd Discourses: A Narratological Approach to Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for
Godot and Serge Bouchardon’s Loss of Grasp
·
Examiner of the
following MA Dissertations:
1-
1- Shattering Walls of
Certainty in Video Games and Drama: A Possible World Approach to Arthur
Miller’s Play Death of a Salesman and Ian Dallas’ Video Game What
Remains of Edith Finch
2-
2- Antisocial
Personality Disorder in Thomas Harris's Hannibal and Its Cinematic
Adaptation
3-
3- The Post-Colonial
Identity Crisis in V.S Naipaul's The Mimic Men and Al Tayeb
Salih's Season of Migration to the North
4- 4- Children under Fire: Witnessing and
Narrating Wars in Selected Children’s Diaries
5- Relationship
between Suffering in Childhood and the Quest for Self-Realization in Selected
Novels by Toni Morrison
6- Politics of Objectification: Distorted Female Image
in John Binnie’s Breakfast at Audrey’s and Julia Cho’s BFE
1- 7- Narrating Posthuman Identities in Martha Wells’ The
Murderbot Diaries and Selected Short Stories of Isaac Asimov
8- Postmodern Labyrinthian Gaming in John Fowles’
Novel The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1969) and Hwang Dong-hyuk’s
TV Series Squid Game (2021)
8- 9- Sherlock's Sisters: Reconfiguring the Lady
Detective and Female Criminal in Sherlock Holmes's Selected Post-Millennial
Adaptations
9- 10 Politics of Objectification: Distorted Female Image in
John Binnie’s Breakfast at Audrey’s and Julia Cho’s BFE
Additional
Certification & Training:
- The AOU Teaching Excellence Award in 2022
- The MIU Faculty Excellence Award for
continued teaching excellence and outstanding achievement (January 2015)
- I successfully completed the following
courses:
1-
Testing
& Evaluation Workshop at Misr
International University (July 15 – 19, 2012)
2-
Effective Assessment of Students'
Performance (September 18 -20, 2011)
3-
Using Technology in Teaching
(November 19 – 21, 2006) (Faculty and
Leadership Development Project) – Helwan University
4-
Cognitive Skills (July 16 – 19,
2005) (Faculty and Leadership
Development Project) – Helwan University
5-
ESP Course Design & Materials
Development
Duties:
Designing two sample units for a job-search syllabus (Resume
writing & conducting successful interviews)
Date: From 1st
to 11th of July, 2001
1-
Computer & Internet Training
for English Language Teaching
Duties: Power Point Presentation & Creating Websites
Date: From May 19th till May 23rd, 2001
2-
ESP Testing & Evaluation
Duties: Writing a final test & setting its rubrics
Date: From August 26th to Sept. 7th, 2000
3-
English for Specific Purposes Summer Training Course
Duties: Lesson Planning
Date: From June 23rd till July 11th, 1996
AOU Training/Seminars & Workshops:
1-
“The Atlantic Charter (1941):
entrenching liberal democracy or inspiring anti-colonial liberation?” by Prof.
David Johnson (OU – UK) (March 2022)
2-
“Creating
Effective Learning Assignments for ELL/ELLT Modules Using CILOs” by Prof. Hayat
Al-Khatib (AOU – Lebanon Branch) (March 2022)
3-
This is in
addition to successfully completing FOUR Quality Assurance Workshops conducted
by NAQAA (National Authority for Quality Assurance and Accreditation) at AOU –
Egypt (2019 – 2020).
4-
Training of
Trainers (TOT) – February 2024 – Arab Open University
5-
Crisis
Management – January 2024 – Arab Open University
Professional Affiliations and Memberships
·
An academic referee at Buhuth (Researches) journal – a refereed
journal in the Faculty of women – Ain Shams University https://buhuth.journals.ekb.eg/contacts
·
An Academic referee at The International Journal for Childhood
and Women’s Studies – Ain Shams University https://ijcws.journals.ekb.eg/journal/contact.us?lang=ar
·
An
academic referee at Jordan Journal of Modern Languages JJmll
·
A
member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Social
Sciences: Current and Future Trends
Additional
Information available on request
Refereed
Papers:
1-
“A Spatial
Study in Arundhati Ghosh's The Hungry Tide”
Journal: Journal of Research in Language Teaching
–Ain Shams University – Egypt
https://buhuth.journals.ekb.eg/contacts
2-
“Poetry is Therapeutic in the aftermath of
Trauma”
Academia.edu
3-
“Representing the UAE in films: To what
extent does Orientalism contribute to the UAE?”
Academia.edu
1-
“Childhood Trauma and the Quest for Self-Realization in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child” The
International Journal for Childhood and Women’s Studies https://ijcws.journals.ekb.eg/journal/contact.us?lang=ar
2- “New Wine in Old Bottles: Angela Carter’s Feminist
Revisionary Fairy-Tale Narratives of “Beauty and the Beast” and “Snow
White” (JJMLL) – A Q1 Scopus-indexed Journal
1-
The Female Body as a
Site of Violence and Resistance: Reclaiming Female Agency in Mahasweta Devi’s Draupadi in Jordan Journal of Modern
Languages & Literature (JJMLL)- A Q1 Scopus-indexed journal
2-
On the Cusp of
Refugeeism: Encountering the More Unhomelier in Leila Al-Ammar’s Silence Is a
Sense (2021) (JJMLL) – A Q1 Scopus-indexed Journal
3-
Desert Narratives in
Ibrahim Al-Koni’s The Bleeding of the Stone in light of Augé's Theorization of
'Place' and 'Non-Place' (JJMLL) – A Q1 Scopus-indexed Journal
Published Researches:
"Seeing
Through the Veil of Historical Half-Truths in Peter Carey's True History of
the Kelly Gang" at Sahifatu'l – Alsun. Volume 23 – January
2007. Faculty of Al-Alsun (Faculty of Languages) Ain Shams University – Egypt
"Deflecting
the Gaze: The Masquerade from Greek Mythology to Egyptian & American Cinema
& TV" in Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium
on Comparative Literature: Egypt at the Crossroads. Eds. Salwa A. Kamel,
Hoda S. Gindi & Nadia S. El-Kholi. Cairo: Cairo University, 2009.
"A
Cognitive Stylistic Approach to the Criminal Mind Style in Thomas Harris’s The
Silence of the Lambs & Hannibal " in Cairo Studies: Essays in Honour of Maher Shafiq
Farid, January 2011, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University.
"Feminist
Narratology and Discourse Disambiguation: A Reading of Ahdaf Soueif's "I
Think of You"" in Cairo Studies: Essays in Honour of
Malak Hashem, 2012, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University.
"'Subworlds'
and the Sense of a Non-Ending: A Possible-World Approach to Al-Hakim's The
Tree Climber" in Faculty of Arts Magazine, Vol. 33, January
2013 - Helwan University.
“The
Politics of Fear & Its Defense Mechanisms: A Terror Management Theory
Persepective” in Philology, Issue 72, June 2019.
1-
“The Veil in Western Eyes and the Politics of (Mis)Representation
in Nora Towmey’s The Breadwinner: A Graphic Novel in Research in Language
Teaching – Faculty of Education – Ain Shams University- Vol. 15, Spring
2021 (307 – 364). https://ssl.journals.ekb.eg/article_170904.html
2-
“Antigone’s
Law: A Contemporary Dramatic Egyptian Version” British Journal of
Translation, Linguistics and Literature (BJTLL), Volume 3, issue 1 (Winter
2023)
ISSN (Print), 2754 – 5598 ISSN (Online), 2754 – 5601
https://www.journals.ukbrighthorizons.co.uk/index.php/bjtll
3-
“Buffering
Anxiety of Pandemics: A Post-Pandemic Perspective to Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion”
British Journal of Translation, Linguistics and Literature (BJTLL),
Volume 3, issue 1 (Winter 2023) ISSN (Print), 2754 – 5598 ISSN (Online), 2754 – 5601
https://www.journals.ukbrighthorizons.co.uk/index.php/bjtll
4-
“Feminist
Dystopia: A Study of the 2019 Ballet Adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The
Handmaid’s Tale (1985)” British Journal of Translation, Linguistics and
Literature (BJTLL), Volume 4, issue 1 (Winter 2024)
5-
Exploring
the Intertextual Webs: A Comparative Study of Sophocles’ Antigone and
Bertold Brecht’s The Antigone of Sophocles (1948)” British Journal of
Translation, Linguistics and Literature (BJTLL), Volume 4, issue 1
(Winter 2024)
6-
El-Sayed & Mansour, Mariham & Dalia. Re-Writing the
History of the Oppressed: A Comparative Study of Toni Morrison’s Beloved and
Marjane Satrapi’s Autobiographical Memoir Persepolis I. Germany: Scholars
Press, 2024.
7-
“José Watanabe’s Antigona and Anne Carson’s Antigonick: The
Power of the Powerless” International Journal of Social Sciences: Current
and Future Research Trends (IJSSCFRT) ISSN: 2790-4008
1-
Exploring
Schematic Deviance in Bram Stocker’s Dracula and Its 1992 Film
Adaptation in Research in Language Teaching – Faculty of Education – Ain
Shams University
