Authors

Ferial Ghazoul

 

Ferial Ghazoul is Professor of English and comparative literature at the American University of Cairo. She is the founding editor of Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics (an annual multi-disciplinary publication). Her many publications include Nocturnal Poetics: The Arabian Nights in Comparative Context (AUC Press, 1996) and the edited collections Edward Said and Critical Decolonization (AUC Press, 2007), Arab Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide, 1873-1999 (co-edited with Radwa Ashour and Hasna Reda-Mekdashi, AUC Press, 2008), and The View from Within: Writers and Critics on Contemporary Arabic Literature (co-edited with Barbara Harlow, AUC Press, 1994). 

ARTICLES BY Ferial Ghazoul

  • Barbara Harlow: The Formative Egyptian Period

    Barbara Harlow: The Formative Egyptian Period

    In her late twenties, she arrived in Egypt of the late 1970s looking like a teenager who lost her way and ended up in teeming Cairo. Doris Shoukri, then chair of the department of English and Comparative Literature (ECLT) at the American University in Cairo (AUC), ha..