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Hosam Aboul-Ela
Ben Affleck's "Argo": A Movie about a Movie
Argo. Directed by Ben Affleck. USA, 2012. 1. Suspense and Espionage for a New Era As the awarding of the Oscars draws near, one is reminded of what is not being said. The kerfuffle around Zero Dark Thirty's representations of torture has been interesting, but no less than the docile reception among reviewers and awards voters regarding the far more competitive of the film's set in West Asia, Ben Affleck's Argo. At one level, Affleck has created a rousing espionage ...
Keep Reading »An Elegy Out of Stories
When my close friend of nearly two decades, the celebrated New York Times reporter Anthony Shadid, died suddenly last week of an asthma attack while crossing the border from Syria into Turkey, the plethora of tributes to him over the course of the next day helped me overcome the shock. Still, as someone who knew Anthony well and shared so many things in common, I could not help but think of what was left out of the portraits drawn by his colleagues in the media ...
Keep Reading »Bio
Hosam Aboul-Ela is an Associate Professor in the University of Houston’s Department of English. He is the translator of three Arabic novels, including Sonallah Ibrahim's Stealth. His is the author of numerous critical articles in the areas of literature of the Americas, Latin American cultural studies, and Arab cultural studies. He is the author of Other South: Faulkner, Coloniality, and the Mariátegui Tradition, and co-editor with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak of the Palgrave/Macmillan series, "Theory in the World."
