Ziad Elmarsafy

Visiting professor 2011-12 (CENEL - Department of Literature - UFR LSHS) 

Senior Reader 
Department of English and Related Literature
University of York, 
Heslington, YO10 5DD, UK

Research interests

• Literatures of the Middle East and North Africa (Arabic, French, English)
• Post-colonial literature writ large
• Literature and religion

Pr. Elmarsafy is currently preparing a book on Literature and Revolution in Egypt, 1952-2012, an analysis of the interaction between literary, political, economic and religious discourse in postcolonial Egypt.

Selected publications 

Books

• Sufism in the Contemporary Arabic Novel (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming 2012)
• The Histrionic Sensibility: Theatricality and Identity from Corneille to Rousseau. "Biblio 17" 124. Tübingen: G. Narr Verlag, 2001. 
  
• Freedom, Slavery, and Absolutism: Corneille, Pascal, Racine. Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture. Lewisburg and London: Bucknell University Press, 2003. 
  
• The Enlightenment Qur'an: The Politics of Translation and the Construction of Islam Oxford: Oneworld, 2009.

As co-editor

• Debating Orientalism, co-edited with David Attwell and Anna Bernard. Forthcoming (under contract), Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Selected articles or book chapters

• “Hassan Teleb ou le symbolisme engagé.”  In Marc Kober, ed., Poésies des Suds et des Orients.  Special issue of Itinéraires et Contacts de Cultures 42 (2008): 137-149.
• “Adapting Sufism to Video Art: Bill Viola and the Sacred.”  Alif 28 (2008): 127-149.
• “Manifesto for a New Translation of the Qur’ān.”  In Gerald Maclean, ed, Britain and the Muslim World: Historical Perspectives. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011.  192-202.  [Expanded and revised version of article at http://hdl.handle.net/10036/67377]

• “ ‘Do You Love Egypt?’ Alaa Al-Aswany and the Desire for Revolution.”  In Karima Laachir and Saeed Talajooy, eds, Resistance in Contemporary Middle Eastern Cultures: Literature, Cinema and Music.  Forthcoming, Routledge, 2012.

Conference Program at the University Paris 13

In Marc Kober's Seminar from 13.30 to 15.30, Room B204 (UFR LSHS 1st floor)

• Tuesday, April 3rd on Naguib Mahfouz (Mille et une nuits)
• Tuesday, April 10th on Sonnallah Ibrahim (Les Années de Zeth)
• Friday, June 29th on Literature and Revolution in the World