Books
Eighteen volumes of criticism, nine novels and eight short-story collections, published in Jordan, Lebanon and the Gulf between 1985 and 2023.
Criticism
- 1985
Critical Studies
Amman Library, Jordan
- 1986
On Narrative Rhythm
Dar Al-Amal, Irbid
2nd ed. 1995, Dar Al-Manahil, Beirut
- 1992
The Authority of Style
Dar Qudsiyya, Irbid
2nd ed. 2000, Ammoun, Amman
- 1993
Essays in Arabic and Western Literature and Criticism
Al-Kittani Library, Irbid
- 1993
Contemporary Currents in the Short Story
Al-Kittani Library, Irbid
- 1993
Intertextuality — Theory and Application
Al-Kittani Library, Irbid
2nd ed. 2000, Ammoun, Amman
- 1993
The Absent Text
Al-Kittani Library, Irbid
2nd ed. 2000, Ammoun, Amman
- 1994
The Problematic of Death in the Arabic and Western Novel
Ministry of Culture, Amman
2nd ed. 2000, Ammoun, Amman
- 1995
The Angry Poet: Mahmoud Darwish
Hamada, Irbid
2nd ed. 2011, Dar Al-Alam Al-Arabi, Dubai
- 1995
Dimensions of Civilizational Conflict in Maqamat Al-Muhal
Hamada, Irbid
- 2005
Spaces of the Emirati Text
Dept. of Culture & Information, Sharjah
- 2006
Poetry in Jordan and Palestine, 1950–2000
Dar Al-Shorouk, Amman
- 2011
Aspects of Modernity in Emirati Literature
Dar Al-Alam Al-Arabi, Dubai
- 2013
Intertextualities of Human Heritage in Contemporary Literature
Dept. of Culture & Information, Sharjah
- 2012
Studies in Rhythmic Structure in the Arabic and Western Novel
Fadaat, Amman
Five Arabic novels (Jabra, Ismail Fahd Ismail, Tayeb Salih, Mahfouz, Sonallah Ibrahim) and five Western (Woolf, Lawrence, Camus, Mann, Tolstoy), with short-story models.
- 2014
Narrative Rhythm in the Arabic and Western Novel
Fadaat, Amman
- 2018
Studies in Western Literature
Published in English
Arabic and Islamic references in Joyce's Finnegans Wake, rhythm in Woolf's To the Lighthouse, D. H. Lawrence's The Fox, death in three African-Arabic novels, and Lacan on the unconscious.
- 2015
Complete Works — The Short Story Collections
Fadaat, Amman
- 2018
Manifestations of Contemporary Poetry
Fadaat, Amman
Winner, Al-Babtain Prize for Poetry Criticism, 2020
- 2023
Labyrinths of Contemporary Man in Literary Discourse
Alan Publishers, Amman
Novels
- 1987
Preludes to Hatred — Shaker's Curses & Faris's Drowsiness (two novels)
Dar Al-Amal, Irbid
- 1990
Disappearance of a Poet / Deaf, Dumb… (two novels)
Al-Kittani Library, Irbid
- 1990
Before the Execution
Al-Kittani Library, Irbid
- 1990
Anxious Faces
Al-Kittani Library, Irbid
- 1993
Al-'Unna
Hamada, Irbid
- 1993
Behind the Hyena
Al-Kittani Library, Irbid
- 1995
Who Revives the Bones When They Are Dust
Jordan
- 2018
Transformations
Nabati Publishing, Abu Dhabi
- —
Complete Works — The Short Novels
Ministry of Culture, Jordan
Short stories
- 1985
The Matchstick
Amman Library, Jordan
- 1987
The Watermelon
Al-Kittani Library, Irbid
- 1988
In Search of a Bar of Soap
Al-Kittani Library, Irbid
- 1993
The Government's Horses
Al-Kittani Library, Irbid
- 1995
Joseph's Brothers
Jordan
- 2000
Shaybub
Jordan
- 2015
Complete Works — The Short Story Collections
Fadaat, Amman
- —
Autumnals
Forthcoming