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Authored Books
El-Desouky, Ayman (2014) The Intellectual and the People in Egyptian Literature and Culture: Amāra and the 2011 Revolution. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. (Palgrave Pivot)
El-Desouky, Ayman (2013) Figuring the Sacred in the Modern Arabic Novel. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. (Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature Series)
El-Desouky, Ayman (2010) Kahlil Gibran: An Illustrated Anthology. London: Spruce/Octopus Publishing Group Ltd..
El-Desouky, Ayman (2010) Kahlil Gibran: Een Geïllustreerde Bloemlezing. Haarlem, The Netherlands: Altamira.
El-Desouky, Ayman (2010) Kahlil Gibran: Et Illustrert Utvalg. Oslo, Norway: Schibsted Forlag.
El-Desouky, Ayman (2010) Khalil Gibran: Una Antología Ilustrada. Barcelona: Blume.
Edited Book or Journal Volume
El-Desouky, Ayman and Rooney, Caroline, eds. (2011) Egyptian Literary Culture and Egyptian Modernity. London: Routledge. (Routledge Journal of Postcolonial Writing,47:4)
El-Desouky, Ayman and Brehony, Noel, eds. (2007) British-Egyptian Relations from Suez to the Present Day. London: Saqi Books. (SOAS Middle East Issues)
Book Chapters
El-Desouky, Ayman (2014) 'Disturbing Crossings: The Unhomely, the Unworldly and the Question of Method in Approaches to World Literature.' In: Harrison, Rachel, (ed.), Disturbing Conventions: Decentering Thai Literary Cultures. London: Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 239-245.
El-Desouky, Ayman (2013) 'Beyond Spatiality: Theorising the Local and Untranslatability as Comparative Critical Method.' In: Küpper, Joachim, (ed.), Approaches to World Literature, Volume 1, WeltLiteraturen/World Literatures Series. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, pp. 59-86.
El-Desouky, Ayman (2009) 'Bahaa' Taher (1935-).' In: Al-Mallah, Majd Yaser and Fitzpatrick, Coeli, (eds.), Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 346: Twentieth-Century Arab Writers. New York: Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc, pp. 252-257.
El-Desouky, Ayman (2009) 'Gamal al-Ghitani (1945-).' In: Al-Mallah, Majd Yaser and Fitzpatrick, Coeli, (eds.), Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 346: Twentieth-Century Arab Writers. New York: Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc, pp. 58-68. (Dictionary of Literary Biography)
El-Desouky, Ayman (2007) 'Notes on Political Memory and Cultural Memory.' In: El-Desouky, Ayman and Brehony, Noel, (eds.), British-Egyptian Relations from Suez to the Present Day. London: Saqi Books, pp. 163-178. (SOAS Middle East Issues)
Journal Article
El-Desouky, Ayman (2017) 'The Amāra on the Square: Connective Agency and the Aesthetics of the Egyptian Revolution.' Contention: The Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Protest, 5 (1). pp. 51-83.
El-Desouky, Ayman (2014) 'Between Hermeneutic Provenance and Textuality: The Qur'an and the Question of Method in Approaches to World Literature.' Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 16 (3). pp. 11-38.
El-Desouky, Ayman (2014) 'The Object-Interruptive: Reflections on the Social Resonance of the Archaeological Find.' Forming Material Egypt, Special Issue of Egyptology and Egyptological Documents, Archives and Libraries EDAL, 5.
El-Desouky, Ayman (2013) 'Naẓm, iʿjāz, Discontinuous Kerygma: Approaching Qur'anic Voice on the Other Side of the Poetic.' Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 15 (2). pp. 1-21.
El-Desouky, Ayman (2011) 'Heterologies of Revolutionary Action: On Historical Consciousness and the Sacred in Mahfouz’s Children of the Alley.' Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 47 (4). pp. 428-439.
El-Desouky, Ayman (2010) 'Expanding Eyes: Language, Literature, History, and Identity: Perceptions of Korea in the Middle East and Comparative Literary Perspectives.' Journal of Korean Culture, 14 (2). pp. 217-236.
El-Desouky, Ayman (2007) 'Ego eimi: Kerygma or Existential Metaphor? Frye, Bultmann and the Problem of Demythologizing.' Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée, 34 (2). pp. 131-171.
El-Desouky, Ayman (2004) 'القص والاقتصاص بين قديم اللحظة وجديد التاريخ : قراءة في رواية ﻣﺘﻮﻥ ﺍﻷﻫﺮﺍﻡ ﻟﻠﻐﻴﻄﺎﻧﻲ / Narrating and Tracing the Past: A Reading of al-Ghitani's Mutun al-ahram.' Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, 24. pp. 119-152.
Theses
El-Desouky, Ayman (2000) The Self-Begetting Modern: Figuring the Human in Whitman and Joyce. PhD thesis. University of Texas at Austin.
Translations
El-Desouky, Ayman, trans. (2005) The Laws of Absence by Ahmed El-Madini. Sardines and Oranges: Short Stories from North Africa . London: Banipal Books.
El-Desouky, Ayman, trans. (1993) From "Naguib Mahfouz's Critics" by Gaber Asfour. In: Beard, M. and Haydar, A. (eds.), Naguib Mahfouz: From Regional Fame to Global Recognition . Syracuse University Press. pp. 144-175.