Dr Ayman El-Desouky
BA (Cairo); MA, PhD (Austin, Texas)
Overview
Department of the Languages and Cultures of Near and Middle East
Senior Lecturer in Arabic and Comparative Literature
Centre for Palestine Studies (CPS)
Member
London Middle East Institute (LMEI)
Member
- Name:
- Dr Ayman El-Desouky
- Email address:
- ad48@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- 020 7898 4355
- Address:
- SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG - Building:
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office No:
- 423
- On Sabbatical:
- Term 1 2012
Teaching
Courses Taught
- A Modern Arabic Literary Genre: Themes and Techniques
- Arabic Poetry and Criticism
- Politics and Aesthetics in Modern Arabic Literature
- Social and Political Dimensions of Modern Arabic Literature
PhD Students supervised
- Cleo Jay, Moroccan Theatre in the Post-Lead Years: Performing Identity, Politics and Society.
- Hany Rashwan, Working title: The question of the literary in approaches to Ancient Egyptian Literature: towards an Arabic-based critical approach " the debate between a man and his soul (BA) as a case study"
- Maha Abdel Megeed, Muwaylihi's Isa ibn Hisham: Between 18th-Century Revival and 19th-Century Neoclassical Renaissance
- Natalie Abou Shakra, Beyond the Culture Industry, Contemporary Music of Dissidence in the Arab world: A case study of Egypt and Lebanon
- Rasha Chatta, The Itinerary as a Mode of Existing: Narratives of Wanderers in Contemporary Migrant Literature
- Sarah Doebbert Epstein, The Ethics of Alterity: A Comparative Critical Approach to Language, Subjectivity and Agency in Arabic Rhetorical Theory and Poststructuralist Thought
Expertise
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Available for
- Press
- Briefings
- Short Term Consultancy
- Radio
Regional Expertise
- Near and Middle East
Country Expertise
- Egypt
- Ireland
- United States of America
Languages
- Arabic
Publications
Authored Books
El-Desouky, Ayman (2010) Kahlil Gibran: An Illustrated Anthology. London: Spruce/Octopus Publishing Group Ltd..
El-Desouky, Ayman (2010) Kahlil Gibran: Een Geïllustreerde Bloemlezing. Haarlem, The Netherlands: Altamira.
El-Desouky, Ayman (2010) Kahlil Gibran: Et Illustrert Utvalg. Oslo, Norway: Schibsted Forlag.
El-Desouky, Ayman (2010) Khalil Gibran: Una Antología Ilustrada. Barcelona: Blume.
Edited Books
El-Desouky , Ayman and Brehony, Noel, eds. (2007) British-Egyptian Relations from Suez to the Present Day. London: Saqi Books. (SOAS Middle East Issues)
Book Chapters
El-Desouky , Ayman (2009) 'Gamal al-Ghitani (1945-).' In: Al-Mallah, Majd and Fitzpatrick, Coeli, (eds.), Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 346: Twentieth-Century Arab Writers. New York: Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc, pp. 58-68. (Dictionary of Literary Biography)
El-Desouky , Ayman (2009) 'Bahaa' Taher (1935-).' In: Al-Mallah, Majd and Fitzpatrick, Coeli, (eds.), Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 346: Twentieth-Century Arab Writers. New York: Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc, pp. 252-257.
El-Desouky , Ayman (2007) 'Notes on Political Memory and Cultural Memory.' In: El-Desouky, Ayman and Brehony, Noel, (eds.), British-Egyptian Relations from Suez to the Present Day. London: Saqi Books, pp. 163-178. (SOAS Middle East Issues)
Articles
El-Desouky, Ayman (2011) 'Heterologies of Revolutionary Action: On Historical Consciousness and the Sacred in Mahfouz’s Children of the Alley.' Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 47 (4). pp. 428-439.
El-Desouky, Ayman (2010) 'Expanding Eyes: Language, Literature, History, and Identity: Perceptions of Korea in the Middle East and Comparative Literary Perspectives.' Journal of Korean Culture, 14 (2). pp. 217-236.
El-Desouky, Ayman (2007) 'Ego eimi: Kerygma or Existential Metaphor? Frye, Bultmann and the Problem of Demythologizing.' Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée, 34 (2). pp. 131-171.
El-Desouky, Ayman (2004) 'Narrating and Tracing the Past: A Reading of al-Ghitani’s Mutun al-ahram.' Alif, A Journal of Comparative Poetics, 24 . pp. 119-152.
Translations
El-Desouky, Ayman, trans. (2005) The Laws of Absence by Ahmed El-Madini. Sardines and Oranges: Short Stories from North Africa . London: Banipal Books.
Other
El-Desouky , Ayman and Rooney, Caroline, eds. (2011) 'Egyptian Literary Culture and Egyptian Modernity.' Journal of Postcolonial Writing. Special Issue, 47 (4). London: Routledge.
