Dr Rita Sakr
Lecturer / Assistant Professor; MA Programme Co-ordinator
Biography
Post Doctoral Fellows/Research Team
Researcher Name | Project | Role | Funding Body | |
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Edmund Chapman | The Language of Refuge | Post Doctorate | Irish Research Council (IRC) |
Books
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2013 | Monumental Space in the Post-Imperial Novel: An Interdisciplinary Study.
Rita Sakr (2013) Monumental Space in the Post-Imperial Novel: An Interdisciplinary Study. London: Bloomsbury Academic. [Details] |
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2013 | Anticipating the 2011 Arab Uprisings: Revolutionary Literatures and Political Geographies.
Rita Sakr (2013) Anticipating the 2011 Arab Uprisings: Revolutionary Literatures and Political Geographies. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. [Details] |
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2012 | Monumental Space in the Post-Imperial Novel: An Interdisciplinary Study.
Rita Sakr (2012) Monumental Space in the Post-Imperial Novel: An Interdisciplinary Study. London and New York: Continuum. [Details] |
Edited Books
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2013 | The Ethics of Representation in Literature, Journalism and Art: Transnational Responses to the Siege of Beirut
Rita Sakr and Caroline Rooney (Ed.). (2013) The Ethics of Representation in Literature, Journalism and Art: Transnational Responses to the Siege of Beirut London and New York: Routledge. [Details] |
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2011 | Joyce and the Nineteenth-Century French Novel
Rita Sakr and Finn Fordham (Ed.). (2011) Joyce and the Nineteenth-Century French Novel Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi (European Joyce Studies series). [Details] |
Book Chapters
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2022 | 'Arab(ic) Diasporic Literary Trajectories: Reinvented Magical Realisms, Biopolitical Ruptures, and Planetarity'
Rita Sakr (2022) 'Arab(ic) Diasporic Literary Trajectories: Reinvented Magical Realisms, Biopolitical Ruptures, and Planetarity' In: Angela Naimou (eds). Diaspora and Literary Studies (In Press). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Details] |
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2022 | '‘The Severed Limb: Relational Life-writing Against Techno-biopolitical Violence in Atef Abu Saif’s The Drone Eats With Me: A Gaza Diary’'
Rita Sakr (2022) '‘The Severed Limb: Relational Life-writing Against Techno-biopolitical Violence in Atef Abu Saif’s The Drone Eats With Me: A Gaza Diary’' In: Ned Curthoys and Isabelle Hesse (eds). Literary Representations of the Palestine/Israel Conflict after the Second Intifada (In Press). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. [Details] |
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2020 | 'Expanding the Space of Human Rights in Literature, Reclaiming Literature as a Human Right: Cockroach and Carnival'
Rita Sakr (2020) 'Expanding the Space of Human Rights in Literature, Reclaiming Literature as a Human Right: Cockroach and Carnival' In: Krzysztof Majer (eds). Beirut to Carnival City: Reading Rawi Hage. Amsterdam and New York: Brill/Rodopi, pp. 87-102. [Details] |
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2018 | 'Heterotopia and its Discontents: Exploring Spatial, Social, and Textual Liminality in Rawi Hage’s Cockroach'
Rita Sakr (2018) 'Heterotopia and its Discontents: Exploring Spatial, Social, and Textual Liminality in Rawi Hage’s Cockroach' In: Roxanne Rimstead and Domenic Beneventi (eds). Contested Spaces, Counter-narratives, and Culture from Below in Canada and Quebec. Toronto: Toronto University Press, pp. 88-106. [Details] |
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2013 | 'We Teach Life, Sir”: States of Siege, Youth, and Filmed Testimony'
Rita Sakr and Caroline Rooney (2013) 'We Teach Life, Sir”: States of Siege, Youth, and Filmed Testimony' In: Hilary Ann Footitt and Andrew Knapp (eds). Liberal Democracies at War: Conflict and Representation. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 199-218. [Details] |
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2013 | 'Interview with Robert Fisk'
Rita Sakr and Caroline Rooney (2013) 'Interview with Robert Fisk' In: Rita Sakr and Caroline Rooney (eds). The Ethics of Representation in Literature, Art and Journalism: Transnational Responses to the Siege of Beirut. London and New York: Routledge, , pp. 184-90. [Details] |
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2013 | 'Interview with Mischa Hiller'
Rita Sakr and Caroline Rooney (2013) 'Interview with Mischa Hiller' In: Rita Sakr and Caroline Rooney (eds). The Ethics of REpresentation in Literature, Art and Journalism: Transnational Responses to the Siege of Beirut. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 191-97. [Details] |
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2013 | 'Interview with Mai Masri'
Rita Sakr and Caroline Rooney (2013) 'Interview with Mai Masri' In: Rita Sakr and Caroline Rooney (eds). The Ethics of REpresentation in Literature, Art and Journalism: Transnational Responses to the Siege of Beirut. London and New York: Routledge, pp.198-204. [Details] |
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2013 | 'Introduction'
Rita Sakr and Caroline Rooney (2013) 'Introduction' In: Rita Sakr and Caroline Rooney (eds). The Ethics of Representation in Literature, Journalism and Art: Transnational Responses to the Siege of Beirut. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 1-20. [Details] |
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2013 | 'War is Surrealism Without Art: Representing the Unrepresentable in Mahmoud Darwish, Rawi Hage and Robert Fisk'
Rita Sakr (2013) 'War is Surrealism Without Art: Representing the Unrepresentable in Mahmoud Darwish, Rawi Hage and Robert Fisk' In: Rita Sakr and Caroline Rooney (eds). The Ethics of Representation in Literature, Journalism and Art: Transnational Responses to the Siege of Beirut. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 23-36. [Details] |
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2011 | '“That’s new […]That’s copy: Slightly Rambunctious Females on the top of Some Column! in Zola’s L’Assommoir and Joyce’s Ulysses'
Rita Sakr (2011) '“That’s new […]That’s copy: Slightly Rambunctious Females on the top of Some Column! in Zola’s L’Assommoir and Joyce’s Ulysses' In: Rita Sakr and Finn Fordham (eds). Joyce and the Nineteenth-Century French Novel. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi. [Details] |
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2011 | 'Joyce and the “pas mal de siècle”'
Rita Sakr and Finn Fordham (2011) 'Joyce and the “pas mal de siècle”' In: Rita Sakr and Finn Fordham (eds). Joyce and the Nineteenth-Century French Novel. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi. [Details] |
Peer Reviewed Journals
Year | Publication | |
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2020 | 'Decolonial Imaginaries of Sanctuary in Behrouz Boochani's Work'
Rita Sakr (2020) 'Decolonial Imaginaries of Sanctuary in Behrouz Boochani's Work'. CROSSINGS: JOURNAL OF MIGRATION & CULTURE, 11 (2):231-249 [Details] |
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2019 | 'Imagining Mid-Nineteenth-Century Beirut as a City of the World: Public Intellectuals, Photography, Cartography, and Historical Literature”'
Rita Sakr (2019) 'Imagining Mid-Nineteenth-Century Beirut as a City of the World: Public Intellectuals, Photography, Cartography, and Historical Literature”'. Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, 6 (1):31-57 [full-text] [Details] |
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2018 | 'The More-Than-Human Refugee Journey: Hassan Blasim's Short Stories'
Rita Sakr (2018) 'The More-Than-Human Refugee Journey: Hassan Blasim's Short Stories'. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 54 (6 Refugee Literature):766-780 [full-text] [Details] |
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2011 | 'Between Terror and Taboo: Monumentalisation as the Matrix of History and Politics in Orhan Pamuk’s The Black Book and Snow'
Rita Sakr (2011) 'Between Terror and Taboo: Monumentalisation as the Matrix of History and Politics in Orhan Pamuk’s The Black Book and Snow'. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 38 :227-247 [full-text] [Details] |
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2011 | 'Imaginative Migrations: An Interview [and an introductory essay] with the Lebanese-Canadian Writer Rawi Hage'
Rita Sakr (2011) 'Imaginative Migrations: An Interview [and an introductory essay] with the Lebanese-Canadian Writer Rawi Hage'. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 47 (3):343-351 [full-text] [Details] |
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2010 | 'Broken Pillars”: The Counter-Monumental Texture of Ulysses'
Rita Sakr (2010) 'Broken Pillars”: The Counter-Monumental Texture of Ulysses'. Dublin James Joyce Journal, 3 :120-143 [full-text] [Details] |
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2008 | ''Staging Social and Political Spaces: Living Theatre in Joyce’s “The Dead”''
Rita Sakr (2008) ''Staging Social and Political Spaces: Living Theatre in Joyce’s “The Dead”''. Journal of the Short Story in English, 51 :67-79 [full-text] [Details] |
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2007 | 'Negotiating Post-War Lebanese Literature: A Conversation with Rashid al-Daif'
Rita Sakr (2007) 'Negotiating Post-War Lebanese Literature: A Conversation with Rashid al-Daif'. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 43 (3):278-85 [full-text] [Details] |
Other Journals
Year | Publication | |
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2012 | 'Writing the 2011 Arab Uprisings: Visions and Realities'
Rita Sakr (2012) 'Writing the 2011 Arab Uprisings: Visions and Realities' Frame: Journal of Literary Studies (Special Issue: Revolution), :9-19. [Details] |
Published Reports
Year | Publication | |
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2013 | ‘Irish Peacekeeping in the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL): A Historical, Political, and Socio-Cultural Study.
Rita Sakr (2013) ‘Irish Peacekeeping in the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL): A Historical, Political, and Socio-Cultural Study. Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, American University of Beirut, Beirut. [Details] |
Documentary
Year | Publication | |
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2014 | White Flags.
Rita Sakr and Caroline Rooney (2014) White Flags. Documentary [Details] |
Blog
Year | Publication | |
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2021 | Investigating the mental health and wellbeing of young Arabic-speaking adolescents who have migrated to Ireland from conflict-affected countries.
Yvonne Leckey, Sinead McGilloway and Rita Sakr, (2021) Investigating the mental health and wellbeing of young Arabic-speaking adolescents who have migrated to Ireland from conflict-affected countries. Blog [Details] |
Book Review
Year | Publication | |
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2021 | Review of Fictions of Migration in Contemporary Britain and Ireland by Carmen Zamorano Llena (in New Hibernia Review).
Rita Sakr (2021) Review of Fictions of Migration in Contemporary Britain and Ireland by Carmen Zamorano Llena (in New Hibernia Review). Book Review [Details] |
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2021 | Landscapes of Violence: Review of God 99 by Hassan Blasim (in Dublin Review of Books).
Rita Sakr (2021) Landscapes of Violence: Review of God 99 by Hassan Blasim (in Dublin Review of Books). Book Review [Details] |
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2017 | Review of The Lebanese Post-Civil War Novel: Memory, Trauma, and Capital (in Contemporary Levant).
Rita Sakr (2017) Review of The Lebanese Post-Civil War Novel: Memory, Trauma, and Capital (in Contemporary Levant). Book Review [Details] |
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2014 | James Joyce in the Nineteenth Century (in James Joyce Broadsheet).
Rita Sakr (2014) James Joyce in the Nineteenth Century (in James Joyce Broadsheet). Book Review [Details] |
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2014 | Review of Architecture and Modern Literature (in James Joyce Quarterly).
Rita Sakr (2014) Review of Architecture and Modern Literature (in James Joyce Quarterly). Book Review [Details] |
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2013 | Review of Transits: The Nomadic Geographies of Anglo-American Modernism (in James Joyce Quarterly).
Rita Sakr (2013) Review of Transits: The Nomadic Geographies of Anglo-American Modernism (in James Joyce Quarterly). Book Review [Details] |
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2013 | Review of In the Country of Men and Anatomy of a Disappearance by Hisham Matar (in Wasafiri).
Rita Sakr (2013) Review of In the Country of Men and Anatomy of a Disappearance by Hisham Matar (in Wasafiri). Book Review [Details] |
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2013 | Review of Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World (in British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies).
Rita Sakr (2013) Review of Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World (in British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies). Book Review [Details] |
Encyclopedia Entry
Year | Publication | |
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2020 | Hisham Matar (updated and expanded-3500 words).
Rita Sakr (2020) Hisham Matar (updated and expanded-3500 words). Encyclopedia Entry [Details] |
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2020 | Rawi Hage (updated and expanded-2750 words).
Rita Sakr (2020) Rawi Hage (updated and expanded-2750 words). Encyclopedia Entry [Details] |
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2011 | Rawi Hage.
Rita Sakr (2011) Rawi Hage. Encyclopedia Entry [Details] |
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2012 | Hisham Matar.
Rita Sakr (2012) Hisham Matar. Encyclopedia Entry [Details] |
Electronic Publication
Year | Publication | |
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2018 | Cultural Imaginaries of Mid-Nineteenth Century Beirut as “City of the World”.
Rita Sakr (2018) Cultural Imaginaries of Mid-Nineteenth Century Beirut as “City of the World”. Electronic Publication [Details] |
Media
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2020 | RTE Brainstorm: A Guide to the Best Arabic Literature in Translation.
Rita Sakr (2020) RTE Brainstorm: A Guide to the Best Arabic Literature in Translation. Media [Details] |
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2016 | Featured expert on the RTE documentary: Peacekeepers: The Irish in South Lebanon.
Rita Sakr (2016) Featured expert on the RTE documentary: Peacekeepers: The Irish in South Lebanon. Media [Details] |
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2019 | Main guest on BBC World Service Weekend.
Rita Sakr (2019) Main guest on BBC World Service Weekend. Media [Details] |
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2018 | One of two main guests on BBC World Service Weekend.
Rita Sakr (2018) One of two main guests on BBC World Service Weekend. Media [Details] |
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2016 | One of two main guests on BBC World Service Weekend.
Rita Sakr (2016) One of two main guests on BBC World Service Weekend. Media [Details] |
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2015 | One of two main guests on BBC World Service Weekend.
Rita Sakr (2015) One of two main guests on BBC World Service Weekend. Media [Details] |
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2014 | One of two main guests on BBC World Service Weekend.
Rita Sakr (2014) One of two main guests on BBC World Service Weekend. Media [Details] |
Invited Lectures
Year | Publication | |
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2020 | The ethico-politics of mixed-genre, relational life-writing in Atef Abu Saif’s The Drone Eats with Me (Goldsmiths Centre for Comparative Literature).
Rita Sakr (2020) The ethico-politics of mixed-genre, relational life-writing in Atef Abu Saif’s The Drone Eats with Me (Goldsmiths Centre for Comparative Literature). Invited Lectures [Details] |
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2018 | Imagining Mid-Nineteenth-Century Beirut as a “City of the World” (SOAS, School of Oriental and African Studies).
Rita Sakr (2018) Imagining Mid-Nineteenth-Century Beirut as a “City of the World” (SOAS, School of Oriental and African Studies). Invited Lectures [Details] |
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2017 | Keynote Address: Heterotopic Displacements in Migrant and Refugee Narratives.
Rita Sakr (2017) Keynote Address: Heterotopic Displacements in Migrant and Refugee Narratives. Invited Lectures [Details] |
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2013 | Human Rights in Contemporary Arab Literature (UCD).
Rita Sakr (2013) Human Rights in Contemporary Arab Literature (UCD). Invited Lectures [Details] |
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2012 | A History of Violence: Landscapes of Memory in Orhan Pamuk’s Novels (UCD).
Rita Sakr (2012) A History of Violence: Landscapes of Memory in Orhan Pamuk’s Novels (UCD). Invited Lectures [Details] |
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2012 | Orhan Pamuk and the Contested History of Post-Imperial Turkey (University of Kent).
Rita Sakr (2012) Orhan Pamuk and the Contested History of Post-Imperial Turkey (University of Kent). Invited Lectures [Details] |
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2012 | Irish Peacekeeping in Lebanon (American University of Beirut).
Rita Sakr (2012) Irish Peacekeeping in Lebanon (American University of Beirut). Invited Lectures [Details] |
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2010 | Counter-monumental Rebellions in Joyce’s Ulysses (James Joyce Summer School).
Rita Sakr (2010) Counter-monumental Rebellions in Joyce’s Ulysses (James Joyce Summer School). Invited Lectures [Details] |
Conference Contributions
Year | Publication | |
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2021 | Oral Presentation at Transcultural Mo(ve)ments: Memories, Writings, Embodiments (online).
Rita Sakr (2021) Oral Presentation at Transcultural Mo(ve)ments: Memories, Writings, Embodiments (online). [Oral Presentation], Transcultural Re-memberings of Planetary Sanctuary in Behrouz Boochani’s Poetics, University of Cardiff [Details] |
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2019 | Oral Presentation at Contemporary Literature: Politics and Aesthetics in Crisis.
Rita Sakr (2019) Oral Presentation at Contemporary Literature: Politics and Aesthetics in Crisis. [Oral Presentation], Oral Presentation at collaborative symposium on Engaging an Aesthetics and Politics of More-Than-Human Rights in Rawi Hage's Works, Queen's University Belfast [Details] |
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2019 | Oral Presentation at Forms of Migration conference.
Rita Sakr (2019) Oral Presentation at Forms of Migration conference. [Oral Presentation], Hassan Blasim’s Nightmare Realism” and the Re-imagining of the “Refugee Crisis”, University of Graz, Austria [Details] |
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2018 | Oral Presentation at 13th European Association for Modern Arabic Literature conference, Fiction and History: the Rebirth of the Historical Novel in Arabic.
Rita Sakr (2018) Oral Presentation at 13th European Association for Modern Arabic Literature conference, Fiction and History: the Rebirth of the Historical Novel in Arabic. [Oral Presentation], Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Beirut in Rabee Jaber’s Historical Fiction, Bayrūt Madīnat al-ʿĀlam, Universita degli studi di Napoli L'Orientale [Details] |
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2018 | Oral Presentation at 26th International James Joyce Symposium.
Rita Sakr (2018) Oral Presentation at 26th International James Joyce Symposium. [Oral Presentation], Reconstructing “a Shout in the Street” in Pamuk's A Strangeness in My Mind, University of Antwerp [Details] |
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2017 | Oral Presentation at American Comparative Literature Association Conference.
Rita Sakr (2017) Oral Presentation at American Comparative Literature Association Conference. [Oral Presentation], ‘“Reclaiming the human” in the migrant narratives of Rawi Hage’s Cockroach and Hassan Blasim’s The Iraqi Christ’, Utrecht University [Details] |
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2014 | Oral presentation at Walls, Barricades, Borders, Gates: Political Negligence and the Twenty-First Century City.
Rita Sakr (2014) Oral presentation at Walls, Barricades, Borders, Gates: Political Negligence and the Twenty-First Century City. [Oral Presentation], Re-Transit Beirut: Diasporic, Refugee, and Other Spaces, SOAS, University of London [Details] |
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2013 | Oral Presentation at British Society of Middle Eastern Studies Conference 2013.
Rita Sakr (2013) Oral Presentation at British Society of Middle Eastern Studies Conference 2013. [Oral Presentation], Syrian Prison Writings: An Archive of Human Rights Abuses, Popular Discontent, and Radicalisation, UCD, Dublin [Details] |
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2013 | Oral Presentation at Identity and Conflict.
Rita Sakr (2013) Oral Presentation at Identity and Conflict. [Oral Presentation], Remapping the Revolutionary Middle East: Ahdaf Soueif’s The Map of Love and Cairo: My City, Our Revolution, University of Balamand [Details] |
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2012 | Oral Presentation at Days of Rage conference.
Rita Sakr (2012) Oral Presentation at Days of Rage conference. [Oral Presentation], Writing the Egyptian Revolution: The Literature and Journalism of Mohamed Salmawy and Alaa al-Aswany, University of Kent [Details] |
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2012 | Oral Presentation at Shifting Borders conference.
Rita Sakr (2012) Oral Presentation at Shifting Borders conference. [Oral Presentation], A New MENA?: Re-inventing the American Democratization Project in the Arab World,’ Shifting Borders, American University of beirut [Details] |
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2012 | Oral Presentation at British Society of Middle Eastern Studies Conference 2012.
Rita Sakr (2012) Oral Presentation at British Society of Middle Eastern Studies Conference 2012. [Oral Presentation], Imagining 2011: The Literatures of the Arab Uprisings, London School of Economics [Details] |
Conference Hosted
Year | Publication | |
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2020 | Social Justice Week, Righting/Writing Refuge screening, conversation and symposium with Behrouz Boochani (Scholars at Risk-Maynooth).
Rita Sakr and Jeneen Naji (2020) Social Justice Week, Righting/Writing Refuge screening, conversation and symposium with Behrouz Boochani (Scholars at Risk-Maynooth). Conference Hosted [Details] |
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2014 | Walls, Barricades, Borders, Gates: Political Negligence and the Twenty-First Century City (An interdisciplinary conference co-organised with CCLPS, SOAS (Dr Karima Laachir)).
Rita Sakr (2014) Walls, Barricades, Borders, Gates: Political Negligence and the Twenty-First Century City (An interdisciplinary conference co-organised with CCLPS, SOAS (Dr Karima Laachir)). Conference Hosted [Details] |
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2012 | Media and the Arab Spring (an interdisciplinary conference co-organised with Professor Liam Kennedy at UCD Clinton Institute for American Studies).
Rita Sakr (2012) Media and the Arab Spring (an interdisciplinary conference co-organised with Professor Liam Kennedy at UCD Clinton Institute for American Studies). Conference Hosted [Details] |
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2012 | Trust-Building in Divided Beirut, (interdisciplinary workshops, part of ESRC, PACCS research programme (hosted Lebanese University Dr May Maalouf).
Rita Sakr (2012) Trust-Building in Divided Beirut, (interdisciplinary workshops, part of ESRC, PACCS research programme (hosted Lebanese University Dr May Maalouf). Conference Hosted [Details] |
Invited Seminars
Year | Publication | |
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2015 | A Cultural-Geographical Reflection on Migrant Routes in Mid-nineteenth-Century Beirut (OIB).
Rita Sakr (2015) A Cultural-Geographical Reflection on Migrant Routes in Mid-nineteenth-Century Beirut (OIB). Invited Seminars [Details] |
Webinar
Year | Publication | |
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2021 | Interculturalism, Literature and the Arts in Ireland Webinar Series.
Rita Sakr (2021) Interculturalism, Literature and the Arts in Ireland Webinar Series. Webinar [Details] |
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2021 | A Conversation with Hassan Blasim on Literature, Displacement and Resistance.
Rita Sakr and Reema Hassan (2021) A Conversation with Hassan Blasim on Literature, Displacement and Resistance. Webinar [Details] |
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2021 | Academic Response (focusing on Nizar Qabbani's poetry) to Kinda Nassli's Angela's Ashes Through a Syrian Refugee's Eyes (MU Social Justice Week event).
Rita Sakr (2021) Academic Response (focusing on Nizar Qabbani's poetry) to Kinda Nassli's Angela's Ashes Through a Syrian Refugee's Eyes (MU Social Justice Week event). Webinar [Details] |
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2020 | Gaza: A Conversation With Garry Keane and Andrew McConnell.
Rita Sakr and Denis Condon (2020) Gaza: A Conversation With Garry Keane and Andrew McConnell. Webinar [Details] |
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2020 | Conversation with Claire Gallien on Anglo-Arabic Writing and the Practice of Worldliness.
Rita Sakr (2020) Conversation with Claire Gallien on Anglo-Arabic Writing and the Practice of Worldliness. Webinar [Details] |
Professional Associations
Association | Function | From / To | |
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International Comparative Literature Association | Member of the Executive Council | 01-AUG-16 / 01-AUG-19 | |
European Association for Commonwealth Literatures and Language Studies | Member | / | |
Irish Association for American Studies | Member | / | |
Irish Network for Middle Eastern and North African Studies | Co-founder; Founding member | 01-JUL-20 / | |
Centre for Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London | Affiliated Member | 01-SEP-20 / | |
Multilingual Locals & Significant Geographies: For a New Approach to World Literature (MULOSIGE). An ERC Horizon 2020 project at SOAS | Critical Friend | 01-JUN-19 / | |
European Association of Modern Arabic Literature | Member | 01-JUN-18 / |
Committees
Committee | Function | From / To | |
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University of Sanctuary Committee | Member | 2019 / | |
Commemorations Committee | Member | / | |
Postgraduate Teaching | Coordinator of MA/Chair of Working Group | 2019 / | |
Scholars at Risk Network Ireland-Maynooth University Committee | Member | 2019 / |
Education
Year | Institution | Qualification | Subject | |
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2009 | University of Nottingham | PhD | English Studies (Global Literatures) |
Languages
Language | Reading | Writing | Speaking | |
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Arabic | Fluent | Fluent | Fluent | |
English | Fluent | Fluent | Fluent | |
French | Fluent | Fluent | Fluent | |
Italian | Functional | Functional | Functional |
Consultancy
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Dublin UNESCO City of Literature | ||
Rooney Prize for Irish Literature |
Outreach Activities
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Reviews
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Literary Encyclopedia | Editor | |
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Routledge | Reviewer | |
Journal Of Postcolonial Writing | Reviewer | |
British Journal Of Middle Eastern Studies | Reviewer | |
Political Geography | Reviewer | |
Contemporary Women'S Writing | Reviewer | |
Postcolonial Text | Reviewer | |
Diaspora | Reviewer | |
Journal Of North African Studies | Reviewer |
Other Activities
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BBC World Service 2-hour "Weekend Show" Guest in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019 (commenting on political, socio-economic, and cultural news and exploring aspects of my academic research and teaching). |
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Member of the Board of Literature Ireland |
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Featured expert on the RTE documentary: Peacekeepers: The Irish in South Lebanon |