Four master's theses, ten book chapters and studies, and a long trail of newspaper criticism following each novel and collection.
Narrative Discourse in Ahmad Alzubi
Jihad Al-Marazbaq (M.A.) · Lebanese University, Beirut
The Novel in Ahmad Alzubi
Ghada Hamdan (M.A.) · Al al-Bayt University, Jordan
The Short Story in Ahmad Alzubi
Nidal Bani Khaled (M.A.) · Al al-Bayt University, Jordan
Ahmad Alzubi as Critic: His Critical Contributions
Ola Al-Zboun (M.A.) · Al al-Bayt University, Jordan
Abdulrahman Yaghi, “…With Ahmad Alzubi”, chapter in The Short Story in Jordan.
Ibrahim Al-Sa'afin, “Towards the Novel of the Absurd”, chapter in The Novel in Jordan.
Suleiman Al-Azra'i, “Shaker's Curses as a model of the existential novel in Jordan”, in Studies in the Jordanian Novel.
Suleiman Al-Azra'i, “The critic Ahmad Alzubi and his method in narrative rhythm”.
Nabil Haddad, Alienation in the Jordanian Novel.
Nazih Abu Nidal, Novels and Novelists from Jordan.
Nedal Mousa, “Alienation in the Jordanian Novel”, Mu'ta Journal of Research, vol. 16, no. 5.
Abdulrahim Marashdeh, “Narrative Space in Ahmad Alzubi”, chapter in Narrative Space.
Mariam Jabr, Ahmad Alzubi as Critic: Vision and Instrument.
Abdulbasit Marashdeh, Existentialism in the Stories of Ahmad Alzubi.
“Dr. Ahmad Alzubi, pioneer of the theory of narrative rhythm” — a study of the theory and its application to the Arabic and Western novel, including Youssef Al-Qaeid's The Beloved's Country.
Dr. Al-Fayoumi noted the author's Kafkaesque insistence on effacing character: the figures have no outward features, and much of the collection carries the spirit of the collective. Dr. Istaitiyeh read the book as a treatment of human existence itself rather than of any single type or individual. Dr. Al-Sheikh observed that, the characters being mere possibilities, the language arrives stripped of dialogue.
The novel argues that more happens in hours than in years. Amir Al-Ra'i stands for the Arab man who hides his pain and clings to joy: nearly half a century of obscurity, then a birthday, a marriage, an accusation — and an execution. This blend of painful, sorrowful humour is Alzubi's habitual register.
A reading of anxiety as the governing condition of the novel's world.
Two separate essays treat the novel — one on the beyond-real, another on the erosion of principle within it.
A study of inherited myth reworked as symbolic violence.
On the 2000 collection Shaybub and its metamorphoses.
Two pieces welcomed the 1993 collection as a new turn in his short fiction.
A study of the protagonist's dissolution as the novel's structural principle.
Alzubi's fiction is placed within the Jordanian turn towards the absurd.