Publications

“‘Enemy of God’ — a story.” Afkar, no. 384, Amman.

“Mohammad bin Jarsh's The Master and the Insect.” Afkar, no. 394, Amman.

“Hilf Al-Fudul and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.” Ta'ayush, no. 3, Dubai.

“Survival and Annihilation in the Poetry of Jihad Abu Hashish.” Afkar, no. 358.

“Event and Cause in the Stories of Mahmoud Al-Rimawi.” Afkar, no. 347, Amman.

“Amal Dunqul and Khalil Hawi.” Al-Rafid (UAE), March.

“Images of Estrangement in Women's Fiction.” Awraq, Jordanian Writers Association, no. 45.

“Self and Others in Basem Al-Zubi's ‘The Painting’.” Al-Ra'i Al-Thaqafi.

“Labyrinths of Arab Man from Cradle to Grave — Basem Al-Zubi's ‘Windows’.” Afkar, no. 316, Amman.

“Al-Hanouf Mohammad's ‘Elegy of the Meteors’.” Al-Khaleej Al-Thaqafi, 7 Jan.

“A Semiotic Study of Abdulhamid Ahmed's ‘The Echo’.” Al-Khaleej Al-Thaqafi, 12 Feb.

“Studies in the Emirati Short Story.” Al-Khaleej Al-Thaqafi, 6 Sep.

“Spaces of Poetry: Mahmoud Darwish's ‘Sarhan’.” Al-Khaleej Al-Thaqafi, 3 Jan.

“Existential Anxiety in the Poetry of Habib Al-Sayegh.” Al-Khaleej Al-Thaqafi, 16 Mar.

“A Reading of Nujoom Al-Ghanem's Poems Grown on Walls.” Al-Khaleej Al-Thaqafi, 8 May.

“The Philosophy of Death in Three African-Arabic Novels.” Humanities Conference, UCLA, USA.

“Philosophical Tendencies in Contemporary Poetry — Adonis.” Al-Khaleej Al-Thaqafi, 11 Nov.

“Universality and Globalisation of Contemporary Arabic Literature.” Al-Khaleej Al-Thaqafi, 28 Nov.

“The Phenomenon of Intertextuality: Andalusian Intertexts in Muhammad Badran's Poetry.” Faculty of Arts, South Valley University, Qena, Egypt.

“Poetic Language in Huda Al-Zarouni's The Night Sings Alone.” Al-Rafid (Sharjah), no. 104.

“Theodore Roethke's The Lost Son: between romantic joy and existential disgust.” 'Alamat, University of Bahrain, no. 17.

“Revolutionary Theatre and the Masks of Heritage: Sultan Al-Qasimi's The Case.” Al-Rafid, Sharjah, no. 83.

“Rhythm in the Novel: Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse.” Conference papers, University of Reims, France.

“Haitham Al-Khawaja's Inhalation of the Dream: the split self.” Kawalis (UAE), no. 12.

“Ali Abu Al-Reesh's Window of Madness.” Shu'un Adabiyya (Abu Dhabi), no. 47.

“Semiotics of Grass in the Poetry of Ali Ja'far Al-Allaq.” 'Alamat (Jeddah), no. 47, vol. 12.

“Basema Younis's ‘Who Fears the Day’.” Al-Rafid (Sharjah), no. 70.

“Saliha Ghabish's ‘A Filly's Fracture’ — reality against dream.” Al-Rafid (Sharjah), no. 71.

“Narrative Rhythm in Albert Camus's The Stranger.” 'Alamat (Jeddah), no. 49, vol. 13.

“Umniyat Salem's A Dream Like the Sea's Giraffe (UAE).” Al-Rafid, July.

“The Globalisation of Modern Arabic Literature.” Kuwait University conference volume; also Al-Rafid, no. 94, 2005.

“The Psychological Effect of Folk Tales on the Emirati Short Story.” Zayed Centre for Heritage, Al Ain.

“Narrative Techniques in the Emirati Novel.” Emirati Novel Forum, Dept. of Culture & Information, Sharjah.

“The Charisma of the Literary Text.” Thaqafat, University of Bahrain, no. 2.

“Images of Estrangement in Women's Fiction.” In The Specificity of Women's Creativity, Ministry of Culture, Jordan.

“The Short Story in the Emirates: Mohammad Al-Murr as a Model.” Shu'un Adabiyya, no. 40.

“Civilizational Conflict in Maqamat Al-Muhal.” Cultural Journal, University of Jordan, April.

“Exile and Memory in the Poetry of Ahmad Abdel-Muti Hijazi.” Jerash Festival research; later in Ibda', Cairo, 2002.

“Symbols and Significations in the Poetry of Mahmoud Darwish.” In a volume honouring Mahmoud Al-Samra.

“Literary and Stylistic Intertextuality.” Annals of the Faculty of Humanities, Qatar University, no. 20.

“Survival and Annihilation in Mu'nis Al-Razzaz's Memoirs of a Dinosaur.” In Qutuf Daniya (honouring Nasir Al-Din Al-Asad), Beirut.

“Religious and Historical Intertextuality.” Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, UAE University, vol. 12, no. 1.

“Intertextual Significations in Ibrahim Nasrallah's ‘Banner of the Heart’.” Dirasat, University of Jordan, vol. 22(A), no. 4.

“Religious and Historical Intertextuality.” Abhath Al-Yarmouk, vol. 13, no. 1.

“Reference and its Allusions in Darwish's ‘On a Canaanite Stone in the Dead Sea’.” Tishreen University; also in The Angry Poet: Mahmoud Darwish.

“The Absent Text (in Fiction).” Abhath Al-Yarmouk, vol. 12, no. 1.

“Arab and Islamic Heritage in Joyce's Finnegans Wake.” Fusul, vol. 13, no. 3, Cairo.

“Trends in Short-Story Criticism in Jordan.” Ministry of Culture, Amman Cultural Forum.

“The Absent Text (in Fiction): Arabic References in Joyce's Finnegans Wake.” Adab Al-Mustansiriya (Baghdad), no. 57.

“Narrative Rhythm: Theory and Application.” Annals of the Faculty of Humanities, Qatar University, no. 16.

“The Authority of Style (in Poetry).” Journal of the Faculty of Arts, Tishreen University, vol. 31, no. 1, Syria.

“D. H. Lawrence's The Fox.” Foreign Culture (Baghdad), no. 4.

“Time and Death in T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land.” Foreign Literatures (Damascus), no. 53.

“Narrative Rhythm in Jabra Ibrahim Jabra's The Ship.” Arab Journal for the Humanities (Kuwait), vol. 7, no. 25.

“Narrative Rhythm in Ismail Fahd Ismail's The Luminous Marshes.” Ibda' (Cairo), no. 6.

“The Question of Existence: A Comparative Study of Some Arabic and European Novels.” Abhath Al-Yarmouk, vol. 4, no. 2.

“Narrative Rhythm in Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North.” Al-Bayan (Kuwait), no. 248.

“Narrative Rhythm in Sonallah Ibrahim's That Smell.” Ibda', Cairo.

“Three Faces of Mustafa Sa'eed” — a psychological study of Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North. Ibda' (Cairo), no. 1.

“Theodore Roethke: Between Romantic Joy and Existential Disgust.” Al-Mahd, no. 5, Amman.

“Narrative Rhythm in Naguib Mahfouz's The Thief and the Dogs.” Abhath Al-Yarmouk, vol. 3, no. 1.

“Oedipus Rex between Sophocles, André Gide and Tawfiq Al-Hakim” — a comparative study. In Critical Studies, Amman Library.

“Mahmoud Darwish's ‘Sarhan Drinks Coffee in the Cafeteria’” — symbols, dimensions and significations. In Critical Studies, Amman Library.