Dr Nadeen Dakkak
Lecturer in world and postcolonial literatures
Overview
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I joined the University of Exeter as Lecturer in World and Postcolonial Literatures in September 2022. Before that, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Alwaleed Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World at the University of Edinburgh in 2021-2022. I did my doctoral research at the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick.
My research is focused on the literary and cultural implications of migration to the Arab Gulf States. I am interested in how experiences of migration for work in the Gulf as well as experiences of exclusion and belonging amongst long-term multi-generational migrant communities are tackled in works of literature and popular culture. I am also interested in how Gulf spaces are imagined and depicted by migrant writers. I work on Arabic fiction as well as fiction published in English or available in translation.
Research
My research is interested in how migration in the Gulf States has been tackled in works of literature and culture. I have focused on Arabic fiction as well as novels and short stories published in English, or available in translation. These predominantly narrate the stories of migrants from Arab countries, South Asia and Southeast Asia. I have also looked at popular culture productions that have emerged from the Gulf in response to experiences of marginalization amongst migrant workers.
Publications
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2023
- Dakkak N. (2023) Introduction, Narratives of Dislocation in the Arab World, Taylor & Francis, 1-22, DOI:10.4324/9781003301776-1.
- Dakkak N. (2023) Narratives of Dislocation in the Arab World, Routledge, DOI:10.4324/9781003301776. [PDF]
- Dakkak N. (2023) Malayalam literature as a transnational space of political change: Migration and Bahrain’s 2011 uprising in Benyamin’s Jasmine Days and Al Arabian Novel Factory, The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, volume 58, no. 1, pages 36-51, DOI:10.1177/00219894221145213. [PDF]
2022
- Dakkak N. (2022) "Ana Mafi Khouf Min Kafeel": Counter-Narratives in Comedic Video Representations of Migrant Workers in the Arab Gulf States, Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East & North African Migration Studies, volume 9, no. 1, DOI:10.24847/v9i12022.305. [PDF]
- Dakkak N. (2022) The Gulf as an Unhomely Home: Reconfiguring Citizenship and Belonging in Diasporic Narratives on Second-Generation Migrants, Migration in the Making of the Gulf Space: Social, Political, and Cultural Dimensions, 43-66.
2021
- Dakkak N. (2021) Contesting Narratives of Victimization in Migration to the Arab Gulf States: A Reading of Mia Alvar’s In the Country, Journal of Arabian Studies, volume 11, no. 1, pages 118-136, DOI:10.1080/21534764.2021.1917800.
2019
- Dakkak N. (2019) Migrant Labour, Immobility and Invisibility in Literature on the Arab Gulf States, Mobilities, Literature, Culture, Palgrave Macmillan.
Teaching
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Modules taught
- EAS1032 - Approaches to Criticism
- EAS3003 - Dissertation
- EAS3195 - Acts of Writing: From Decolonisation to Globalisation
- EAS3503 - Migration, Literature and Culture
- EASM023 - Dissertation
- EASM184 - World Literature and Postcolonial Studies
