Mohja Kahf

Office:  KIMP 337
Phone:  (479)575-4301
mkahf@uark.edu

Dr. Kahf is a faculty member in the University of Arkansas's The King Fahd Center for Middle East &
Islamic Studies.
 
Dr. Kahf is also a faculty member in the University of Arkansas's Program in Comparative Literature.

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Teaching Interests: Comparative Literature, Arabic Literature, the Quran, Postcolonialism, Gender; the "world lit" survey course.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Books:

The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf (Perseus, 2006)

E-mails from Scheherazad (U Florida, 2003)

Western Representations of the Muslim Woman from Termagant to Odalisque (U Texas 1999)

Articles and Book Chapters:

"Writing on Muslim Gender Issues in the West Today: Slipping Past the Pity Committee," in Rabab Abdal Hadi, ed., Studies in Arab American Feminisms (forthcoming).

"From Her Royal Bod the Robe Was Removed: The Trauma of Forced Unveiling in the Middle East" in Jennifer Heat, ed., The Veil (UC Berkeley, 2008).

"The Silences of Contemporary Syrian Literature" World Literature Today, Spring 2001.

"Politics and Erotics in Nizar Kabbani's Poetry: From the Sultan's Wife to the Lady Friend" World Literature Today, Winter 2000.

"Packaging Huda: Sha'rawi's Memoirs in the US Reading Environment" in Amal Amireh & Lisa Suhair Majaj, ed., Going Global: The Transitional Reception of Third World Women Writers (Garland, 2000)

"Braiding the Stories: Women's Eloquence in the Early Islamic Era" in Gisela Webb, ed., Windows of Faith: Muslim Women's Scholarship and Activism (Syracuse UP, 2000).