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Mohja Kahf

Associate Professor
(Ph.D. Comparative Literature, Rutgers University)

Dr. Kahf is a faculty member in the University of Arkansas's The King Fahd Center for Middle East & Islamic Studies.

Dr. Kahf is also a faculty member in the University of Arkansas's Program in Comparative Literature.

Teaching Interests:

Comparative Literature, Arabic Literature, the Quran, Postcolonialism, Gender; the "world lit" survey course.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

• Books:
  
  • The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf (Perseus, 2006)
    
  • E-mails from Scheherazad (U Florida, 2003)
    
  • Western Representations of the Muslim Woman from Termagant to Odalisque (U Texas 1999)
  
  
• Articles and Book Chapters:
  
  • "Writing on Muslim Gender Issues in the West Today: Slipping Past the Pity Committee," in Rabab Abdal Hadi, ed., Studies in Arab American Feminisms (forthcoming).
    
  • "From Her Royal Bod the Robe Was Removed: The Trauma of Forced Unveiling in the Middle East" in Jennifer Heat, ed., The Veil (UC Berkeley, 2008).
    
  • "The Silences of Contemporary Syrian Literature" World Literature Today, Spring 2001.
    
  • "Politics and Erotics in Nizar Kabbani's Poetry: From the Sultan's Wife to the Lady Friend" World Literature Today, Winter 2000.
    
  • "Packaging Huda: Sha'rawi's Memoirs in the US Reading Environment" in Amal Amireh & Lisa Suhair Majaj, ed.,
  • Going Global: The Transitional Reception of Third World Women Writers (Garland, 2000)
    
  • "Braiding the Stories: Women's Eloquence in the Early Islamic Era" in Gisela Webb, ed.,
  • Windows of Faith: Muslim Women's Scholarship and Activism (Syracuse UP, 2000).