My research interests include language, politics and literature of the Arab world in particular.
In Arabic culture, political discourses tend to draw on rich political and literary traditions which are used by various groups in different ways. I have researched, alongside other scholars, a number of interrelated themes, including nationalist and Islamist discourses and their interrelations in Palestine, political poetry, avant-garde classical and modern Arabic poetry, the politics and culture of movements such as the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, and the Lebanese movement Hizbullah; language and national identity in the Palestinian territories and postcolonial ideas and their relevance to Palestinian conditions and Arab narratives in general.
Research interests
Linguistics, Literature, philosophy and history and politics of the Arab World.
Publications
Language and National Identity in Palestine: Representations of Power and Resistance in Gaza
Representation of Language in Arab Media for Children
Alshaer, Atef (2017). In: Sakr, Naomi, (eds.) and Steemers, Jeanette, (eds.), Children's TV and Digital Media in the Arab World: Childhood, Screen Culture and Education. London, UK: I.B. Tauris, pp 182-200
Alshaer, Atef (2012). In: Hroub, Khalid, (ed.), Religious Broadcasting in the Middle East. London; New York: Hurst and Columbia University Press, pp 237-261
Review of 'The Cambridge Introduction to Edward Said', by Conor McCarthy and 'Edward Said: A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation', by Adel Iskandar and Hakem Rustom
Alshaer, Atef (2012). The Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication (5) 2, pp 250-254
