ENGLISH Research Projects Critical encounters: Feminism, femininity, and orientalism
in Freya Stark's The southern gates of Arabia This study locates points of intersection and possible negotiations among discourses of feminism, femininity, and orientalism in this hitherto undermentioned travelogue (1936) by the British imperialist, Freya Stark. The interpretation aims at showing how the multiplicity of subject positions complicates the encounter with the other culture, and, consequently, ensures a measure of reciprocity. Article to be rewritten and resubmitted for publication. Hout, S. Exile, existentialism, and identity in Emily
Nasrallah's Flight Against Time This study examines exile and identity from the philosophical perspective of Sartrean existentialism in Emily Nasrallah's Flight Against Time (1981). The interpretation, based on contemporary travel theory and historical context, aims at elucidating the concepts of personal choice and individual moral responsibility as illustrated by the lives of Lebanese characters torn between war at home and exilic existence . Hajj This study traces the development of the travelogue based on the pilgrimage to Mecca between the Middle Ages and the present day.
Home, politics, and exile in Nadia Tueni's Archives
sentimentales d'une guerre au Liban This study offers a close reading of Nadia Tueni's long poem by focusing on the relationships among the concepts of home, politics, and exile. Of special concern is the exilic nature of, and exilic sentiment in, this collection. The semantic ambiguities of home and homeland, and the changing boundaries of the 'here' and 'there,' as illustrated in images of attachment to and withdrawal from Lebanese soil, are highlighted. Supported by URB Of fathers and the fatherland in the post-1995 Lebanese
exilic novel This study examines the complex relationship between
personal and national identities in three post-1995 Lebanese exilic novels:
Rabih Alameddine's Koolaids: The Art of War, Tony Hanania's Unreal
City, and Hani Hammoud's L'Occidentaliste. It is argued that
alienation from the father (figure) causes estrangement from the fatherland
as an apparatus of patriarchal authority. Article is forthcoming in World Literature Today
(Spring 2001). Hout, S. Reading Travel Writing in Two Theme-Based Graduate
Seminars This article draws upon my personal experience of teaching
two theme-based graduate seminars at AUB -- one on Orientalism and the
other on Cross-Cultural Encounters -- in which the genre of travel
writing was prominent. Article is under review for publication. Hout, S. The predicament of in-betweenness in the contemporary
Lebanese exilic novel in English This comparative study investigates the predicament of
cultural in-betweenness, or hybridity, in two contemporary Anglophone
Lebanese novels: Rabih Alameddine's, Koolaids: The Art of War (1998)
and Tony Hanania's, Unreal City (1999). Various forms of nostalgia in
the texts are discussed as important features of the postmodern condition of
exile, in general, and the postwar Lebanese sensibility, in particular. The
relationships among nationalism, exile (both physical and psychological), and
personal identity are highlighted. It is argued that exile neither dampens
nor strengthens nationalistic feeling. Instead of pitting exile against
'home' or nation, as two diametrically opposed realities, and singing the
praises of the one or the other, both authors show exile to be independent of
geography by locating it within the individual, the nation, and the host
country. Article is forthcoming in Articulating the nation:
Literary landscapes from the Middle East and North Africa, eds. Suleiman,
Y., and I. Muhawi. How the British press reported the “Armenian Genocide” This research examines the British newspapers, specifically the London Times of 1860-1900, to determine whether the Turkish allegations that the Genocide of 1915 was a result of World War One or it was premeditated and carried out long before war. In addition, the proceedings of the British Parliament will also be examined and compared with those of the newspaper articles. Expected date of publication: Summer 2003. Peltikian, K. Publication Record Aoun, J., and L. Choueiri. 2000. Epithets. Natural Language
and Linguistic Theory. Bacha, N., A. Abou Ayash, H. Choukair, M. Maalouf, and M.
Mikati. 1999. Themes-Second
Secondary Humanities. National Center for Educational Research and
Development (NCERD). Bacha, N., H. Choukair, M. Maalouf, and M. Mikati. 2000. Themes-Third Secondary Literature-Humanities. National Center for Educational Research and Development (NCERD). Eid, A., R. Rashash-Shaaban, and S. Samra. 1999. Teaching
English to Teachers of Art, First Year. National Center for Educational
Research and Development (NCERD). Hout, S. 2000. Grains of utopia: The desert as literary oasis in Paul Bowles's The Sheltering Sky and Wilfred Thesiger's Arabian Sands. Utopian Studies 11 (2):112–136. Lakkis, Kh., and M. Abdel Malak. 2000. Understanding the transfer of prepositions. Forum: English Teaching. Peltekian, K. M. (ed.) 2000. Heralding
of the Armenian Genocide: Reports in the Halifax Herald (1894-1922). Halifax,
Nova Scotia: ACAAP. ———. 2001. Learning to write in a
foreign language. Learning Through Writing: A compendium of assignments
and techniques, ed. A. Wright. Halifax, Nova Scotia: Dalhousie University
Press.
Abstracts, Conferences, and Proceedings Choueiri, L. June 2000. Focus
and yes-no questions in Lebanese Arabic. The Fifth Conference on Afroasiatic
Linguistics, Paris, France. ———. May 2001. The
source of weak resumptives. The Third Conference on the Syntax and Semantics
of Semitic Languages, Los Angeles, USA. Hout, S. November 1999. Grains of utopia: The desert as literary oasis in Paul Bowles's The Sheltering Sky and Wilfred Thesiger's Arabian Sands. 24th Annual Meeting of the Society for Utopian Studies. San Antonio, Texas, USA. ———. July 2000. The predicament of in-betweenness in the contemporary Lebanese exilic novel: The example of Rabih Alameddine's Koolaids. Abstracts of First Conference on Literature and Nationalism in the Middle East and North Africa, 18. Univ. of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. ———. April 2001. The
state of the nation in the contemporary exilic Lebanese novel. Imagine all the People:
(De-)Constructing National Identities: Fourth Symposium. Norfolk, Virginia,
USA. Lakkis, K. July 2000. Presentation
on the analysis of the UOP placement test. FIPLV-Federation De Langues
Virante, Paris, France. ———. April 2001. Poster
presentation on black & white Arabic proverbs vs multi-colored English
proverbs. 35th International Association of English Language Teachers
of English as Foreign Language (IATEFL) conference, Brighton, England. Mikati, M. November 2000.
Higher level skills in the new Lebanese curriculum. Regional
Conference on Language and Change, Beirut, Byblos, Lebanon. Rashash-Shaaban, R. April 2001. Don’t throw it in the trash! Use it in class! 35th IATEFL conference, Brighton, England. Peltekian, K. M. February 2001.
Using authentic material to teach the language skills at the intermediate and
secondary levels (A two day workshop). Child World Promotions (NGO), Amman,
Jordan. Peltekian, K. M. March 2001. Using
pop songs to teach language skills. TESOL Spain 24th Annual
Convention, Seville, Spain. |