About Mohammad R. Salama
At SF State Since:
Bio:
I received my PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2005, with a focus on Arabic literature. I was born in Alexandria, Egypt where I spent my childhood and adolescent years. After High School, I moved to Cairo to study English and Arabic at al-Alsun, Rifa'a al-Tahtawi's first school of translation in the Arab world, where I received my BA and MA in modern English Literature and Translation. My interests include modern and classical Arabic literature, Quranic Studies, comparative literary trends in colonial and post-colonial Europe and the Arab world, as well as French and Egyptian cinema. I have published in a number of scholarly venues, including der Islam, SCTIW Review, JAL, ASJ, ALIF, Stanford Arcade, and AHR.
My hobbies include playing Judo, Squash, Hiking, Cooking, the Art and Practice of Simultaneous Interpretation, and Chess.
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Modern Arabic Language and Literaure
Islam in the Middle East
Qur'anic Studies
Postcolonial Literature
Postcolonial Cinema
European Colonialism
Theories of Modernity
Comparative Literature
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS:
2018. Islam and the Culture of Modern Egypt: From the Monarchy to the Republic (Cambridge UP, 2018)
2018. The Qur'an and Modern Arabic Literary Criticism (Bloomsbury, 2018)
2011. Islam, Orientalism, and Intellectual History (I.B. Tauris, 2011)
2011. German Colonialism. Coedited (Columbia UP, 2011)
REFERRED ARTICLES
2018. “The Untranslatability of the Qur’ānic City.” Chapter contribution to The City in Arabic Literature: Classical and Modern Perspectives. Edinburgh UP, 2016. [In Print]
2018. “Reclaiming Qur’anic Exegesis: Naṣr Ḥāmid Abū Zayd’s Theory of Ta’wīl between Traditionalism and Postsecularism.” Boundary 2 (2018).
2017. “Fundamentalism.” Futures of Comparative Literature: ACLA Report on the State of the Discipline. Routledge, 2017
2016. “Naguib Mahfouz, The Postcolonial (Re)Turn” The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies. New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016.
http://www.literatureencyclopedia.com/subscriber/uid=2756/tocnode?id=g97...
2016. “Postcolonial Arabic Literature” The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies. New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016.
http://www.literatureencyclopedia.com/subscriber/uid=2756/tocnode?id=g97...
2016. “Colonizing a Colonizer: Repression, Myth and Mimesis In Marcel Carné’s Les Enfants du Paradis.” Journal of Modern Art History Department, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade 12 (2016): 253-271.
2016. “The Dialectic of Writing and Forgetting in Luay Hamza Abbas.” Al-Kalimah [The Word: A Monthly Cultural Review] 105 (January 2016).
http://www.alkalimah.net/article.aspx?aid=7959
“أدب العالم بين المركزية و التهميش: قراءة في الأدب العربي ما بعد الاستعمار ”
2014. ALIF: Journal of Comparative Poetics. A Special Issue on World Literature: Perspectives and Debates 34 (2014): 42-66.
2014. “Jean-Luc Godard and the Dilemma of Postcolonial Cinema.” Journal of Modern Art History Department Faculty of Philosophy University of Belgrade 10 (2014): 9-30.
2014. Review Essay of Understanding the Qur’an Today, by Mahmoud Hussein. SCTIW Review, October 2014.
http://sctiw.org/sctiwreviewarchives/archives/310
2012. “Locating the Secular in Sayyid Qutb.” Paper co-authored with Rachel Friedman. Arab Studies Journal 20, no. 1 (2012): 104-131.
2009. “Science in Islam.” Encyclopedia of the Islamic World. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009.
http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/article/opr/t236/e0712
2008. “Arabs and the Arab World.” Encyclopedia of the Modern World. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2008.
http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195176322.001.0001...
2007. “Yanko’s Footprints: Edward Said and the Experience of Exile.” Pacific Coast Philology 42, no. 2 (2007): 238-253.
2006. “The Ruses of Denshawai: History, Event, Fiction.” Journal of Middle Eastern and North African Cultural and Intellectual Studies 4, no. 1 (2006): 1-29.
2006. “A ‘Salary’ of Death: On Badr Shākir al-Sayyāb’s Ḥaffār al-Qubūr.” Journal of Arabic Literature 37, no. 2 (2006): 190-205.
2002. “The Interruption of Myth: A Nancian Reading of Blanchot and al-Bayyātī.” Journal of Arabic Literature 33, no. 3 (2002): 248-254.
2001. “The Mise en Scène of Writing in al-Bayyātī’s al-Kitāba ‘Alā al-Țin.” Journal of Arabic Literature 32, no. 2 (2001): 142-166.
2000. “The Aesthetics of ‘Pygmalion’ in G.B. Shaw and Tawfīq al-Ḥakīm.” Journal of Arabic Literature 31, no. 3 (2000): 222-237.
BOOK REVIEWS
2015. Review Essay of The Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters, by Muhsin al-Musawi. SCTIW Review, October 2015. http://sctiw.org/sctiwreviewarchives/archives/862
2014. Review of The Arab Nahdah: The Making of the Intellectual and Humanist Movement, by Abdulrazzak Patel. The American Historical Review 119, no. 4 (2014): 1393-1394.
2014. Kafka and the Anglophone Arabs, or, The Starting Point of Theorizing Arab Immigrant Narratives: A Review Essay of Waïl Hassan’s Immigrant Narratives. SCTIW Review, December 2014 http://sctiw.org/sctiwreviewarchives/archives/502
2012. Review of Ibn Khaldun: Life and Times, by Allen James Fromherz. der Islam: Journal of the History and Culture of the Middle East 89 (2012): 203-207.
MY BLOG FOR ARCADE, STANFORD UNIVERSITY
(http://arcade.stanford.edu/blogs/user/mohammad-salama)
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08.20.2018. Against Hate (IV): The US Supreme Court, Islam, and Justice in a Xenophobic Age
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02.27.2017. Against Hate (II): The Muslim Ban as Unconstitutional Totalitarianism
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11.20.2015. Gamal al-Ghitani: In Memoriam (1945-2015)
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10.19.2015. It is the Niqab Again: Stephen Harper and the Barbarism of Politics
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04.13.2015. “Arabic and the Monopoly of Theory
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