Marie-Thérèse ABDEL-MESSIH
Professor of English & Comparative Literature
English Department
Faculty of Arts
Cairo University
Guiza – Cairo
Egypt
Department site: www.edcu.info
emails: matermessih@yahoo.co.uk
Link to this page: www.edcu.info/abdelmessih.htm
Interests:
Comparative Literature – Postcolonial Studies – Interart Studies.
Academic Honors & Fellowships: Visiting Scholar, Literary & Visual Studies, University of Kent (1994). Visiting Scholar, American Research Studies Centre, Hyderabad (1988). British Council Bursary, School of Comparative Studies, Essex University, 1981. Ministry of Foreign Affairs Grant, Facultad de Filología Universidad Complutense de Madrid (1976-77).
Education:
Studied at the Universities of Cairo, Essex, and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Visiting Scholar at Keynes College, Kent.
Recent Academic Activities:
Board of Trustees Member, International Arab Fiction Prize, sponsored by the Emirates Foundation in association with the Man Booker Foundation.Counselor for Annals of the Arts & Social Sciences, Kuwait University. Counselor for the National Project for Translation, Supreme Council for Culture, Cairo. Member of Jury for the Sawiris Foundation Fiction and Short Story Award. Member of Jury for the State Awards for Fiction, Short Story, and Aesthetics. Public lectures at the Guizira Palace of Arts: Cairo. Cairo Book Fair. CEREMED Jesuit Cultural Centre, Alexandria. Centre Français de Culture et Cooperation: Cairo. Cairo Atelier.
Publications
1. Authored Books:
2006 National Culture: International or Global Options (Arabic) Cairo: Merit. ISBN 977-351-330-0. pbk.
2002 Visual and Verbal Cultural Representations. (Arabic) Cairo: Supreme Council for Culture. ISBN 977-305-322-9. pbk.
1997; 2004 A Transcultural Reading of Literature. (Arabic) Cairo: GOCP. ISBN 977-235-776-3. Revised ed. Amman: Azmina Publishing Co. ISBN 995- 709-191-3. pbk.
2. Recent Translated Books into Arabic:
2006 The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the History of Literary Criticism. Cairo: Supreme Council of Culture, National Project for Translation (Editor, Translator), Glossary.
1998 Ann Sexton’s Love Poems. Cairo: Supreme Council For Culture: (Translator & Editor). ISBN 977-235-982-0. pbk
Janet Wolfe’s Aesthetic and the Sociology of Art, Cairo: Supreme Council for Culture Publications, National Project for Translation (Editor, Translator) forthcoming.
Banipal Magazine http://au.geocities.com/masthead_2/issue7/ramadan.html
3. Recent Papers
2007 “The Hyper in Calligraphy and Text,” Literatures in the Digital Era: Theory and Praxis. Cambridge Scholars Press.
2005 "Alternatives to Modernism in Contemporary Egyptian Fiction: Ibrahim Abdel-Meguid's No One Sleeps in Alexandria," The International Fiction Review 32 1&2: 38-51. Arabic interpretation Fusul 16 3 (Winter) 1998: 158-74. http://www.highbeam.com/doc.aspx?DOCID=1G1:135610264&tab=lib
2004 “De-Limiting Space: Hassan Ali Ahmed,” Third Text, 18 4 (2004): 308- 12.
þ2003 “Translating Silence/Traversing Death,” Ephemera: Critical Dialogues on Organization 3 1 (February): http://www.ephemeraweb/journal
2000 “Historiciizing Texts/Textualizing Histories: Critical Cultural Inquiries,” Bulletin of the Faculty of Arts (University of Cairo) 60 3 (July): 51-88. Arabic interpretation Fusul 67 (Summer-Autumn), 2005: 164-174.
1999 “The Pyramids/Piccadilly Inter-Cultural Discourse,” Britain & The Arabs: Changes & Exchanges. British Council, Cairo.
1999 “Translation as A Cross-Cultural Discourse,” Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Comparative Literature, University of Cairo: 283-313. Arabic interpretation: Nizwa 20 (October) 1999:77-86
1998 “The Myth of Loss/Regain: A Pakistani Re-reading of Andalusia,” Postcolonial Discourse in South Asia: Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics 18 (1998): 29-54. (Arabic).
1997 “Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon: Language on Site,” Proceedings of The Fourth International Symposium on Comparative Literature, “Language in Literature", University of Cairo, 277-98.
1996 “Durrell’s Alexandria, & M. Said’s The City: Literary & Visual Text,” Miracle Ground IX, (1996), 1. Reprinted, Bulletin of the Faculty of Arts (University of Cairo) 57 3 (July): 97-121.
1995 “The Concept of Inter/Nationalization in African Literature,” Research in African Literatures 26 4(Winter) 163-71.
1995 “Textuality: Towards A Reconciliation of Verbal & Pictorial Reading,” Bulletin of The Faculty of Arts, University of Cairo 55 1 (January): 103-24. Arabic interpretation: Ibdaa 14 3 (March) 1996: 67 81.
4. Art Catalogues: Introductions for exhibitions held in Cairo art galleries:
1996 Hassan Ali Ahmed: Paintings. Karim Francis Gallery. Hussein Shariffe: Paintings. Ewart Gallery
1996 Gamal Abdel-Nasser: Sculpture. Espace Gallery.
1995 Georges Sabbagh: Les Secrets d’un face à face avec la peinture. Paris: A.F.O.S.A.
1995 Joaquina Casas: Drawings & Watercolour. Cairo: Spanish Cultural Centre.
1994 Hassan Al-Sharq: From an Egyptian Village. Cairo: Elias Press.
5. Art Critiques Prism: Cairo. Al-Ahram Weekly: Cairo. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg. Third Text : London. Raw Vision: London http://www.rawvision.com/back/labban/labban.html.