Analysing prominent novelists such as Ibrahim al-Kuni and Hisham Matar, alongside lesser-known and emerging voices, this book introduces the themes and genres of the Libyan novel during the al-Qadhafi era. Exploring latent political protest and environmental lament in the writing of novelists in exile and in the Jamahiriyya, Charis Olszok focuses on the prominence of encounters between humans, animals and the land, the poetics of vulnerability that emerge from them, and the vision of humans as creatures (makhlūqāt) in which they are framed.
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25 March 2024
Dr Lydia Wilson, an affiliated reasercher at this Faculty, has recent published an article in New Lines magazine investigating how works published in 1855 by Walt Whitman and Faris al-Shidyaq, one in English and the other in Arabic, were shaped by similar concerns with a newly emerging world.
12 March 2024
The Bulletin of the School of Oriental & African Studies has just published a new article by Dr Hajni Elias, Affiliated Lecturer in Chinese Art & Material Culture, titled "The Southwest Silk Road: artistic exchange and transmission in early China."
07 March 2024
Dr Mahbod Ghaffari has been awarded the 2024 Pilkington Prize for Teaching Excellence. Twelve prizes are awarded every year by the Vice Chancellor to individuals who make an outstanding contribution to the teaching programme in a Department, Faculty or the University as a whole.
27 February 2024
Melissa Gatter, an alumna of FAMES, recently received the Alixa Naff prize for her monograph, drawing on the research that she undertook in FAMES. Melissa held a CIS Studentship during her PhD (2016-2020) at FAMES, during which time Prof Anderson was her supervisor.
15 February 2024
Barak Kushner will be delivering a talk at the East Asian Civilizations Research Centre (CRCAO)
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