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The Missing Corpse in Contemporary Iraqi Fiction: Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad and Muhsin Al-Ramili’s Daughter of the Tigris (2023)
Journal Article
Hamdar, A. (2023). The Missing Corpse in Contemporary Iraqi Fiction: Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad and Muhsin Al-Ramili’s Daughter of the Tigris. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2023.2269833

This essay focuses on the trope of the missing corpse in two contemporary Iraqi novels: Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad (2013) and Muhsin al-Ramli’s Daughter of the Tigris (2019). Drawing mainly on critical work on the corpse and death studie... Read More about The Missing Corpse in Contemporary Iraqi Fiction: Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad and Muhsin Al-Ramili’s Daughter of the Tigris.

Prostheses of disability: Islamic fundamentalism and the disabled body in postcolonial Arab fiction (2023)
Journal Article
Hamdar, A. (2023). Prostheses of disability: Islamic fundamentalism and the disabled body in postcolonial Arab fiction. Medical Humanities, https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2022-012516

This essay focuses on the representational relationship between disability and Islamic fundamentalism in select contemporary postcolonial literary texts by Arab authors. The essay draws mainly on critical disability theory on the concept of prosthesi... Read More about Prostheses of disability: Islamic fundamentalism and the disabled body in postcolonial Arab fiction.

Severed Heads in Iraqi Diasporic Visual Production: Aleiby, Baldin and Alsoudani (2022)
Journal Article
Hamdar, A. (2023). Severed Heads in Iraqi Diasporic Visual Production: Aleiby, Baldin and Alsoudani. Textual Practice, 37(8), 1181-1201. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2022.2115545

This essay examines the trope of the decapitated, severed head as it appears in a range of works produced by three emigrant Iraqi artists: Afifa Aleiby, Baldin Ahmad and Ahmed Alsoudani. Drawing on a range of cultural, political and philosophical rea... Read More about Severed Heads in Iraqi Diasporic Visual Production: Aleiby, Baldin and Alsoudani.

Staging Silence: Arab Women's Cancer Experience (2019)
Journal Article
Hamdar, A. (2021). Staging Silence: Arab Women's Cancer Experience. Studies in Theatre and Performance, 41(2), 197-211. https://doi.org/10.1080/14682761.2019.1683348

This paper offers a critical reflection on the play I Am Waiting for You [Wasafuli Al-Sabr] which was written by the author and directed by Lina Abyad. Based on extensive interviews with real-life female cancer patients from the Arab world, the play... Read More about Staging Silence: Arab Women's Cancer Experience.

'Voice of Resistance': Rim Banna, Cancer, and Palestine's Body Politic (2019)
Journal Article
Hamdar, A. (2020). 'Voice of Resistance': Rim Banna, Cancer, and Palestine's Body Politic. Medical Humanities, 46(3), 234-242. https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2019-011649

This essay offers a cultural anatomy of Palestinian artist Rim Banna’s post-illness body, from her cancer diagnosis, through her death and into the commemorations that ensued. The essay draws on Banna’s music, her interviews, as well as the public ob... Read More about 'Voice of Resistance': Rim Banna, Cancer, and Palestine's Body Politic.

The Syrian Corpse: The Politics of Dignity in Visual and Media Representations of the Syrian Revolution (2018)
Journal Article
Hamdar, A. (2018). The Syrian Corpse: The Politics of Dignity in Visual and Media Representations of the Syrian Revolution. Journal for Cultural Research, 22(1), 73-89. https://doi.org/10.1080/14797585.2018.1429083

This essay explores the material, phenomenological and political meaning of the Syrian corpse and the question of its dignity as represented in a series of media and visual outputs from 2011 to the present. The essay begins by arguing that the violen... Read More about The Syrian Corpse: The Politics of Dignity in Visual and Media Representations of the Syrian Revolution.

Islamism and Cultural Expression in the Arab World. (2015)
Book
Hamdar, A., & Moore, L. (Eds.). (2015). Islamism and Cultural Expression in the Arab World. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315726731

Whereas most studies of Islamism focus on politics and religious ideology, this book analyses the ways in which Islamism in the Arab world is defined, reflected, transmitted and contested in a variety of creative and other cultural forms. It covers a... Read More about Islamism and Cultural Expression in the Arab World..

The Female Suffering Body: Illness and Disability in Modern Arabic Literature. (2014)
Book
Hamdar, A. (2014). The Female Suffering Body: Illness and Disability in Modern Arabic Literature. Syracuse University Press

Although there is a history of rich, complex, and variegated representations of female illness in Western literature over the last two centuries, the sick female body has traditionally remained outside the Arab literary imagination. Hamdar takes on t... Read More about The Female Suffering Body: Illness and Disability in Modern Arabic Literature..

“We are all Hizbullah now”: narrating the Party of God (2013)
Journal Article
Hamdar, A. (2014). “We are all Hizbullah now”: narrating the Party of God. Journal for Cultural Research, 18(2), 158-170. https://doi.org/10.1080/14797585.2013.851852

This essay is the first examination of the literary output of the Lebanese political party and militia Hizbullah. It examines a series of little-known fiction and non-fiction texts including novels, memoirs and autobiographies by Hizbullah fighters,... Read More about “We are all Hizbullah now”: narrating the Party of God.

Rashid al-Daif (2012)
Journal Article
Hamdar, A. (2012). Rashid al-Daif. The Literary Encyclopedia,

Hassan Daoud (2012)
Journal Article
Hamdar, A. (2012). Hassan Daoud. The Literary Encyclopedia,

Representations of Women, Gender and Islamic Cultures in Films: Lebanon. (2010)
Journal Article
Hamdar, A. (2010). Representations of Women, Gender and Islamic Cultures in Films: Lebanon. Encyclopaedia of woman and Islamic cultures online,

The Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures (EWIC) is an interdisciplinary, trans-historical, and global project embracing women and Islamic cultures in every region where there have been significant Muslim populations. It aims to cover every topi... Read More about Representations of Women, Gender and Islamic Cultures in Films: Lebanon..

Female Physical Illness and Disability in Arab Women's Writing. (2010)
Journal Article
Hamdar, A. (2010). Female Physical Illness and Disability in Arab Women's Writing. Feminist Theory, 11(2), 189-204. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464700110366816

This article focuses on the representation of female physical illness and disability in the works of two Arab women writers: Iraqi Alia Mamdouh’s Habbat al Naftalin [Mothballs] (1986) and Egyptian Salwa Bakr’s al ‘Arabah al Dhahabiyah la Tas‘ad ila a... Read More about Female Physical Illness and Disability in Arab Women's Writing..

Jihad of Words: Gender and Contemporary Karbala Narratives. (2009)
Journal Article
Hamdar, A. (2009). Jihad of Words: Gender and Contemporary Karbala Narratives. Yearbook of English Studies, 39(1/2), 84-100

This paper discusses the discourse of female jihad in contemporary Karbala narratives of Shi'i Islam, specifically Twelver Shi'is. It argues that a gender-dynamic transformation has emerged with regard to the transmission of the Karbala narrative, as... Read More about Jihad of Words: Gender and Contemporary Karbala Narratives..

Women Centers in Jordan. (2000)
Journal Article
Hamdar, A. (2000). Women Centers in Jordan. Al-Raida, 90-91(17-18), 15-19

The Silicone Bomb. Directed by Lina Abyad
Exhibition / Performance
Hamdar, A. (2009). The Silicone Bomb. Directed by Lina Abyad. [Theater performance]. Performed at The Lebanese American University of Beirut, Gulbenkian Theatre. Further performances at the Hamana Festival in Lebanon; the 12th International Theatre Festival at the Lebanese American University; and Madina Theater in Beirut. (Unpublished)

Lecture Performance: I Want to Tell You Something.
Exhibition / Performance
Hamdar, A. Lecture Performance: I Want to Tell You Something. [Lecture Performance]. Performed at 15th EACLALS TRIENNIAL CONFERENCE 2014, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck. (Unpublished)

The Silicone Bomb. Directed by Lina Abyad
Exhibition / Performance
Hamdar, A. (2010). The Silicone Bomb. Directed by Lina Abyad. [Theater performance]. Performed at 7th Creative Independent Forum in Alexandria; and the Amman International Theatre Festival AITF in Jordan. (Unpublished)