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Dr. Stephen Sheehi
Associate Professor
Arabic Program Director

Phone: (803) 777-5254
Fax:     (803) 777-0454

E-mail: sheehi@gwm.sc.edu

 Education


B.A.: Temple University, Mediterranean Studies/Anthropology, 1989

M.A.:University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Near Eastern Studies, 1996

M.A.:University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Modern Middle East & North African Studies, 1992
Ph.D.: University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Near Eastern Studies, 1998


 Teaching Interests


Modern Arab intellectual, cultural, and literary heritage
Visual culture of the Arab World, particulary photography and film.
Critical theory especially radical political and Marxist theory, poststructuralist and postcolonial liberationist theory.
Psychoanalysis


 

 Research Interests
 

Arabic literature, particularly Modern Arabic prose
Thought, Literature, & Culture of al-Nahdah al-`arabiyah

Modern Arab intellectual heritage, literature and culture.
Middle Eastern and Western photography and visual culture
Marxist and radical political theory
Psychoanalysis
Poststructuralism

 

 Selected Publications


Books:

Foundations of Modern Arab Identity, (University Press of Florida, 2004).
(http://www.upf.com/book.asp?id=SHEEHS04)

Islamophobia: The Ideological Campaign Against Muslim (Clarity Press, 2010)

Selected Articles and Commentary:

"Modernism, Anxiety and the Ideology of Arab Vision” in Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture, 28.1, (Winter) 2006 [2008]; pp. 72-97.

“A Social History of Arab Photography; or a Prolegomenon to an Archaeology of the Lebanese Bourgeoisie” in International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies , (39) 2007; 177-208.

“The Politics of Winners and Losers: Israel, Lebanon and the Sixth War” Islenska Leidin [Icelandic Way], 2007-2008 (March);  pp. 26-32. (By invitation) Also, available on line: http://www3.hi.is/~sjg4/%CDslenska_Lei%F0in_2007:2008.pdf
 
“Donor Conference and the Indebting of the Lebanese Economy”, Common Dreams, Sept.3 2006; http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0903-21.htm.

“Arabic Literary-Scientific Journals: Precedence for Globalization and the Creation of Modernity”, Journal of Comparative South Asian, African, and Middle Eastern Studies, 23 no.2 (Fall), 2005.

“Introduction: Lebanese Armenians as Producers”, in Housher: Memoirs of an Armenian Survivor (London: Gomidas Press, 2005).

“Inscribing the Arab Self: Butrus al-Bustani and Paradigms of Subjective Reform” in British Journal of the Middle Eastern Studies, 27 no.1 (Spring), 2000.

“Doubleness and Duality: Allegories of Becoming in Jurji Zaydan’s al-Mamluk al-Sharid”, in Journal of Arabic Literature, 30 no.1 (Spring), 1999.

“Desire for the Self, Desire for the West”, Jouvert: Electronic Journal for Postcolonial Studies; 3 no. 3 (Spring), 1999.

“Interview with Edward Said”, in al-Jadid, 4, no. 22, (Winter) 1998, pp. 20-21. [Currently, republished on-line in “Remembering Edward Said” (Fall, 2002) at http://www.aljadid.com].

 

 

 

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