Samer started following the work of Yehia Mohamed, Georgetown University, SFS-Qatar.
Samer started following the work of Elizabeth Bishop, Texas State University - San Marcos, History.
Samer started following the work of nadia maria el cheikh, American University of Beirut, History and Archaeology.
The University of Texas at Austin
Faculty Member, Middle Eastern Studies
Associate Professor
Liberal Arts
About
Bio blurb:
Samer M. Ali is Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Austin, and he moderates Cairo Scholars, an email listserv for those working in Cairo. He has received five Fulbright Awards to support manuscript research in Spain, Morocco, Germany and Egypt. He publishes academic articles on Arabic-Islamic public culture, Islamic mythology and cultural memory. In 2010, he published _Arabic Literary Salons in the Islamic Middle Ages_ and in 2013 plans to publish _Traditions of Democracy and Nonviolence in the Middle East: Literature as Public Sphere_.
Book -- Arabic Literary Salons in the Islamic Middle Ages (Univ. of Notre Dame Press)
http://undpress.nd.edu/book/P01270
INTERESTS:
Arabic Literature and culture: Abbasid culture (750-1258), Andalusian (711-1492), Arabic Sicily (652-1189), Arabian Nights, women of the court, Arab women poets, folklore
Historiography of Early Islam: The oral performance of ancestral stories, the intersections of literature and history, narrative patterns in historical tales, performance and communication theories
Religion and Mythology: Pre- and early Islamic religion and mythology, the Qur’an, theology/sacred kingship, cults of the hero
Educational and Cultural Exchange: I moderate several email lists that support study and scholarship in the Middle East, including Cairo Scholars
https://utlists.utexas.edu/sympa/info/cairoscholars
Contact Information
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| Address: | University of Texas at Austin |
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512-475-6467 |
