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Nouri Gana

 

Nouri Gana is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature & Near Eastern Languages and Cultuers at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has published numerous articles on modernist, postcolonial and comparative Arab literatures and cultures; Arab film; comparative ethnic, Muslim and Arab diasporas studies; narrative poetics; psychoanalysis and deconstruction in, among others, American Imago; Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East; Comparative Literature Studies; CR: The New Centennial Review; James Joyce Quarterly; The Journal of North African Studies; Law and Literature; PMLA and Public Culture. He contributed op-ed pieces on recent developments in the Arab world to such magazines and international newspapers as The Guardian, El Pais, The Electronic Intifada, and CounterPunch, among others. His book, Signifying Loss: Towards a Poetics of Narrative Mourning, was just published by Bucknell University Press, 2011.

ARTICLES BY Nouri Gana

  • الأدب والثّورة: حوار مع حسين الواد بمناسبة الذّكرى الثّالثة للثورة التونسيّة

    الأدب والثّورة: حوار مع حسين الواد بمناسبة الذّكرى الثّالثة للثورة التونسيّة

    نوري ڤانة: أوّلا، كيف تعرّف بنفسك؟

     حسين الواد: من مواليد منتصف القرن العشرين بالمكنين (جهة الساحل الشرقي) لأسرة تدهورت أوضاعها في عهد الاستعمار الفرنسي. تعلقت بأبي قضية مع "الجندرمة" الفرنسية سرعان ما تطوّرت إلى حكم بالإعدام ففرار من المعتقل لتستقر على المؤبد. عرفت، باكراً جداً، أن فساد أصحاب النفوذ لا ..

  • The Battle for Tunisia

    The Battle for Tunisia

    Only days prior to the 23 October elections for a national constituent assembly, Tunisia continues to be an embattled and profoundly polarized terrain. Since the ouster of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali in January, peaceful and less than peaceful demonstrations and sit-ins have routinely taken place th..

  • Rap Rage Revolt

    Rap Rage Revolt

    Two months ago the private radio station Mosaïque FM asked Rachid Ghannouchi whether he preferred rap music or mizwid (Tunisia’s most popular sha‘bi or folk music, whose name derives from the main instrument that accompanies the singing, i.e., the goatskin bagpipe). Ghannouchi, lea..

  • Essential Viewing: Five Tunisian Films from a Postrevolutionary Perspective

    Essential Viewing: Five Tunisian Films from a Postrevolutionary Perspective

    It is impossible to watch a Tunisian film today from an exclusively prerevolutionary perspective. The present historical juncture will stealthily thrust itself to center stage. Besides, the value of film does not reside solely in its appropriateness to its own historical moment ..

  • Let's Not Forget About Tunisia

    Let's Not Forget About Tunisia

    Now that world attention has irresistibly moved on to the next hotspot, Egypt, it is crucially important not to forget Tunisia. In the very same manner that revolutionary change in Tunisia has spread to Egypt and Yemen and, hopefully, will continue to travel to other parts of the Arab world, any..