Authors

Hosam Aboul-Ela

 

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. He is the author of numerous critical articles in the areas of literature of the Americas, Latin American cultural studies, and Arab cultural studies and of Other South: Faulkner, Coloniality, and the Mariátegui Tradition (Pittsburgh, 2007), and co-editor with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak of the Palgrave/Macmillan series, "Theory in the World."   

ARTICLES BY Hosam Aboul-Ela

  • Loving the Lens: ‘American Sniper’ as Movie and Event

    Loving the Lens: ‘American Sniper’ as Movie and Event

    American Sniper, directed by Clint Eastwood. USA, 2014.

    There is a lull at the moment in the clamor around Clint Eastwood`s controversial film American Sniper, as award season ends and the movie`s powerful box office stamina pushes the DVD release into the summe..

  • Ben Affleck's "Argo": A Movie about a Movie

    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 repres..

  • An Elegy Out of Stories

    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. St..