Mohja Kahf

Associate Professor
(Ph.D. Comparative Literature, Rutgers University)

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

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).

Others:

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