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Authored Books

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2023) Erasing Palestine: Free Speech and Palestinian Freedom. London: Verso.

Orsini, Francesca (2023) East of Delhi: Multilingual Literary culture and world literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (South Asia Research)

Book Chapters

Abdel-Haleem, Muhammad (2023) 'Rasm (Qur’ānic Orthography): The Written Representation of the Recited Text of the Qur’ān.' In: Karim, F. Redhwan, (ed.), History of the Qur’ān: Critical Concepts. Markfield: Kube Publications. (Forthcoming)

Alavi, Seyed Ali (2023) 'Palestine and Iran.' In: Gürbey, Gülistan, Hofmann, Sabine and Seyder, Ferhad Ibrahim, (eds.), Between Diplomacy and Non-Diplomacy: Foreign Relations of Kurdistan-Iraq and Palestine. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 279-303.

Darmawan, Alan and Van der Putten, Jan (2023) 'Transnational Malay Identity: Stage Performances and the Revival of Royal Patrons in the Riau Islands.' In: Cornelio, Jayeel and Grabowsky, Volker, (eds.), Regional Identities in Southeast Asia: Contemporary Challenges, Historical Fractures. Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, pp. 151-179. (SEATIDE-CRISEA-Silkworm Book Series)

Hadjivayanis, Ida (2023) 'The Swahili Mtapta : Exploring Translation in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Paradise.' In: Emenyonu, Ernest, Otiono, Nduka and Akoma, Chiji, (eds.), African Literature in African Languages. Martlesham: James Currey (Boydell and Brewer Ltd), pp. 26-37. (African Literature Today (ALT), vol. 41)

Harrison, Rachel (2023) 'Mapping Emanuelle, Encountering Bangkok. Why Cultural Context Matters.' In: Janisse, Kier-La, (ed.), The Sensual World Of Black Emanuelle: The Black Emanuelle Bible. Los Angeles: Severin Films.

Mallinson, James (2023) 'Yogi Insignia in Mughal Painting and Avadhi Romances.' In: Orsini, Francesca, (ed.), Objects, Images, Stories: Simon Digby’s historical method. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Orsini, Francesca (2023) 'Literary Multilingualism in the Age of the Vernacular.' In: Anjaria, Ulka and Nerlekar, Anjali, (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Modern Indian Literatures. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 21-36.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2023) 'The Thousand and One Nights and Rethinking Arabic Literature.' In: Horta, Paulo, (ed.), Approaches to Teaching The Thousand and One Nights. New York: Modern Language Association of America, pp. 40-47. (Approaches to teaching world literature, no. 173)

Ouyang, Wen-chin (2023) 'Tea and the Silk Roads of World Literature.' In: Mishra, Sudesh and Vandertop, Caitlin, (eds.), Commodities and Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Forthcoming)

Shah, Mustafa (2023) 'Ibn Qudāma, al-Maqdisī.' In: Fleet, Kate, Krämer, Gudrun, Matringe, Denis, Nawas, John and Stewart, Devin J., (eds.), Encyclopaedia of Islam Three. Leiden: Brill, pp. 33-43.

Wallach, Yair (2023) 'Ha-Yehudim ve-Svivatam = היהודים וסביבתם.' In: Ben Naeh, Yaron and Held, Michal, (eds.), Ha-Yishuv Ha-Sfaradi Ha-Yashan = היישוב הישן הספרדי בארץ ישראל. Jerusalem: Yad Ben Zvi, pp. 39-56.

Journal Article

Abdel-Haleem, Muhammad (2023) 'Covid-19 and the Qur’an: Science and Scripture.' Journal of Shari'ah Sciences and The Arabic Language (English section), 8 (1). pp. 569-582.

Abdel-Haleem, Muhammad (2023) 'A Foretaste of the final shock: no enigma in the oaths; Problems of translation; A study of Qur’an 79 and 100.' Journal of Qur'anic Studies. (Forthcoming)

Abdel-Haleem, Muhammad (2023) 'The Translational Challenges Presented by Qur’anic Oaths: A Study of Q. 79 and Q. 100.' Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 25 (3). pp. 139-147.

Alavi, Seyed Ali (2023) 'The Karabakh Conflict and its impacts on Iran’s National and Diplomatic Debates in the Age of Cyber Space.' Journal for Information, Study and Discussion of Global Resource Management, 9. pp. 57-72.

Atar, Cihat and Amir, Alia (2023) 'Pre-Service EFL Teachers’ Knowledge and Beliefs about Developmental Dyslexia: Implications for EFL Teacher Training.' Language Teaching and Educational Research, 6 (2). pp. 160-175.

Bello, Saheed (2023) 'The Fourth Cinema: Morality, and Tragedy in African Cinema.' Journal of Aesthetic Education. (Forthcoming)

Bello, Saheed Adesumbo (2023) 'Ọ̀rúnmìliàn Film-Philosophy: Aesthetics of Èjìgbèdè Ẹ̀kú in Saworoidẹ.' Film and Philosophy: The Journal of the Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts., 27. pp. 89-103.

Bello, Saheed Adesumbo (2023) 'Ọ̀rúnmìlà and the Yorùbá Intellectual Tradition: Words and Language vis-à-vis Western Modernity.' Culture and Dialogue, 11 (1). pp. 85-103.

Darmawan, Alan (2023) 'The Revived Mak Yong Theatre in Indonesia’s Riau Islands: Narrative and Performance Structure.' Asian Theatre Journal, 40 (1). pp. 169-191.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2023) 'Language, Memory, Massacre: The Legacy of Trauma among Chechen Diasporas.' Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies, 9 (1/2). pp. 43-74.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2023) 'Manuscripts don't burn.' Index on Censorship, 52 (2). pp. 88-92.

Harrison, Rachel (2023) 'Dominant Masculinities and the Lure of the Rural Idyll in The King of Bangkok.' Journal of the Siam Society, 111 (1). pp. 171-182.

Harrison, Rachel and Sutiwipakorn Toopyanont, Wasinee (2023) 'Re-narrating the Folk Legend of Jaomae Nang Norn: Human-nature Contact between Ecological Spiritualities and Buddhist Hybridity.' Journal of Southeast Asian Ecocriticism, 1 (2). pp. 66-86.

Hijjas, Mulaika (2023) 'Marsden's Malay Manuscripts: Reassessing a Colonial Collection.' Philological Encounters, 8 (1). pp. 38-72.

Ibanez-Tirado, Diana and Khan, Rabia Latif (2023) ''Birds without legs': legal integration as potentiality for women of a Afghan-Turkmen family in Istanbul.' Central Asian Survey, 42 (1). pp. 41-60.

Martinez-Juan, Cristina (2023) 'Kaagi: tracing Visayan identities in cultural texts.' South East Asia Research, 31 (3). pp. 217-222.

Novillo-Corvalán, Patricia and Orsini, Francesca (2023) 'Introduction.' Journal of World Literature, 8 (2). pp. 177-189.

Orsini, Francesca (2023) 'Alphabet Poems and other Urdu Religious Booklets.' International Journal of Islam in Asia, 3 (1-2). pp. 128-153.

Orsini, Francesca (2023) 'World Literature as a Special Issue.' Journal of World Literature, 8 (2). pp. 290-312.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2023) 'Arabic Posthuman: Bee, Beehive and Beekeeper in a Reconceptualizing of the Human.' Middle Eastern Literatures, 26 (1). pp. 138-143.

Sperl, Stefan (2023) 'Whence Desire?' The International Journal of the Platonic Tradition, 17 (1). pp. 83-91.

Wallach, Yair (2023) 'De l’inscription rituelle au texte séditieux : les graffitis hébraïques du mur des Lamentations, de l’Antiquité au 20e siècle.' 20 and 21. Revue d'histoire, 2022/4 (156). pp. 85-101.

Wallach, Yair (2023) 'ا ّتفاق أوسلو بين التقسيم «المدني» و«العرقي» = The Oslo Accords: Between Civic and Ethnic partitions.' قضايا إسرائيلية = Israeli Issues (91). pp. 42-52.

Wallach, Yair (2023) 'Tourist, Pilgrim, Migrant, Settler: Rethinking the Modern History of Ashkenazim in the Levant Through Sites of Hospitality.' Mashriq and Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies, 10 (2). pp. 68-94.

Wallach, Yair (2023) 'The racial logic of Palestine's partition.' Ethnic and Racial Studies, 46 (8). pp. 1576-1598.

Wildsmith-Cromarty, Rosemary, Reilly, Colin and Kamdem, Seraphin (2023) 'Investigating the opportunities and challenges for African languages in public spaces: an introduction.' Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 44 (9). pp. 765-772.

Zhan, Feifei (2023) 'Persistent Girl as National Propaganda: Storytelling and the Emulation of Ethnic Model in 'Heroic Little Sisters of the Grassland'.' Women's Studies, 52 (5). pp. 507-524.

Conference or Workshop Items

Alavi, Seyed Ali (2023) Palestinian Islamic Movements Paradiplomacy towards Iran in Post-Arab Spring. In: 27th World Congress of Political Science (IPSA), 15-19 July 2023, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Izmirli Karamanli, Seda (2023) Theodosia Sophroniades: An Ottoman Greek and Circassian Female Intellectual Espousing Women’s Rights In Late Ottoman Istanbul. In: Turkologentag, The Fourth European Convention on Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies., 21-23 September 2023, University of Vienna, Austria. (Unpublished)

Book Reviews

Hammond, Marle (2023) 'Remaking the rhymes: The debt owed by modern Arabic literature to Nazik al-Mala'ika.' Times Literary Supplement . pp. 21-22.

Hammond, Marle (2023) 'Review of: 'Reorienting Modernism in Arabic and Persian Poetry' by Levi Thompson.' Middle Eastern Literatures, 25 (2/3). pp. 189-190.

Kennedy, Hugh (2023) 'Review of: Hannah-Lena Hagemann: The Kharijites in Early Islamic Historical Tradition.' Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 25 (1). pp. 112-114.

Murtagh, Ben (2023) 'Dark Cityscape. Review of: Twilight in Jakarta.' Mekong Review, 30 .

Orsini, Francesca (2023) 'Review of: Paper, Performance, and the State: Social Change and Political Culture in Mughal India. By Farhat Hasan.' Journal of Islamic Studies, 34 (2). pp. 276-279.

Sperl, Stefan (2023) 'Review of :'The Arabic Prose Poem: Poetic Theory and Practice' written by Huda J. Fakhreddine.' Journal of Arabic Literature, 54 (1-2). pp. 254-261.

Sperl, Stefan (2023) 'Review of: The Cooing of the Dove and the Cawing of the Crow: Late ʿAbbāsid Poetics in Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī’s Saqṭ al-Zand and Luzūm Mā Lā Yalzam, written by Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych.' Journal of Arabic Literature, 54 (3-4). pp. 464-472.

Wallach, Yair (2023) 'Review of: Toda’at Mishna, Toda’at Mikra: Tzfat ve-ha-tarbut ha-Tzionit [Mishna consciousness, biblical consciousness: Safed and Zionist culture] by Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, Makhon Van Leer and Ha-Kibbutz Ha-Meuhad,.' Journal of Israeli History, 41 (2). pp. 335-338.

Wang, Dylan K. (2023) 'Review of Børdahl and Qi (2022): Jin Ping Mei: A Wild Horse in Chinese Literature: Essays on Texts, Illustrations and Translations of a Late Sixteenth-Century Masterpiece.' Babel: Revue internationale de la traduction / International Journal of Translation, 69 (3). pp. 429-432.

Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs

Alavi, Seyed Ali (2023) The Shifting Patterns of Alliances in the Middle East: Surveying the Fluid Geostrategic Landscape. Diplomatiaa Magazine [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Harrison, Rachel and Helgesen, Geir (2023) Humanity on thin ice: Why Area Studies matters for planetary survival. SOAS Blog [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Rao, Anandi (2023) Suniti Namjoshi: A Critical Biography. Indian Writing in English [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Theses

Atas, Ahmet (2023) Resistance, Loss and Grief: The Implications of Melancholy in Modern Kurdish Novels. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00039077

Boulos, Taroob (2023) Breaking the Silence: Pain, Torture, Resistance and Bearing Witness in the writings of Palestinian Prisoners of War and Administrative Detainees (1967 2004). PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00039498

Dumuje, Gromyko Benedict (2023) Fragmented Memory in an invented land: The Absence of History In the Abacha Military Dictatorship of Nigeria. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00040708

Hussain, Kamal (2023) The Congruity of Islamic Modernist Legal Thought: The Case of Muslim Minority Fiqh. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00040746

Li, Ruixuan (2023) Somali Women’s Poetry: Lullabies, Men and Politics. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00039228

Liu, Liyuan (2023) The Work of the American Protestant Missionaries on Muslim Evangelization and Their Perceptions and Interactions with Muslim Turks during the Late Ottoman and Early Republican Period in Turkey (1878-1929). PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00039594

Makamane, Ret’sepile (2023) Aesthetics of Sesotho Literature: The fiction of Thomas Mofolo, and the novelists who came after him. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00039624

Translations

Harrison, Rachel, trans. (2023) House of Flesh: On Eroticism. Thailand: Sanam Ratsadorn.

Audios

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2023) Rebecca Ruth Gould on the Marc Steiner Show. Interview about Erasing Palestine. The Marc Steiner Show. [Audio]

Datasets

Gould, Rebecca Ruth, Hamamra, Bilal and Mayaleh, Asala (2023) Dataset 1 [title to be added following publication]. [Datasets] (Unpublished)

Other

Hammond, Marle (2023) 'Mahsati Ganjavi.' In: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Medieval Women's Writing in the Global Middle Ages. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.

Hammond, Marle (2023) 'Qasmuna Bint Ismaʿil.' In: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Medieval Women's Writing in the Global Middle Ages. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.

Ouyang, Wen-chin (2023) 'The Artist’s Book: More Than Painting Words.' In: A Picture of Poetry: The Artist's Books of Dia al-Azzawi. Milan, Italy: Skira Editore.