Author: Sumaya Haj

Sumaya Haj is an associate professor of English and postcolonial literature. She earned her PhD in English literature from the University of Jordan in 2016, with a dissertation titled "The Caribbean Self: Traumatic Memory and Diaspora in the Works of V. S. Naipaul and Caryl Phillips." She has published several scholarly articles in both Arabic and English. Her research interests include trauma studies, magical realism, and Palestinian literature.

Sumaya Haj is an associate professor of English and postcolonial literature. She earned her PhD in English literature from the University of Jordan in 2016, with a dissertation titled "The Caribbean Self: Traumatic Memory and Diaspora in the Works of V. S. Naipaul and Caryl Phillips." She has published several scholarly articles in both Arabic and English. Her research interests include trauma studies, magical realism, and Palestinian literature.

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From the Classroom to Gaza: Belated Narratives and the Shared Struggle for Freedom

Sumaya Haj

In my undergraduate course Criticism: Theory and Practice, at Birzeit University—a course that introduces students to the building blocks of literary form—we read A. E. Housman’s poem “The Grizzly Bear.” The Housman poem reads: The Grizzly Bear is huge and … Continue reading “From the Classroom to Gaza: Belated Narratives and the Shared Struggle for Freedom”

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