Dr Otared Haidar
Lecturer of Arabic, Faculty of Oriental Studies and Wadham College
About
Dr Otared Haidar is a full-time permanent member of the academic teaching staff at the University of Oxford. She teaches Arabic, Arabic Media and Literary Enrichment at the Faculty of Oriental Studies and she is the Lecturer of Arabic at Wadham College.
Expertise
- Early Modern to Modern Arabic and Comparative Literature literary theory and media Intellectual and cultural history
- Syria and the Levant
Selected publications
- “Syrian intellectuals and the media: Competing narratives and discursive wars”, in Actors and Dynamics in the Syrian Conflict's Middle Phase: Between Contentious Politics, Militarization and Regime Resilience. Routledge and St-Andrews University (2022)
- "Syrian Ismailis and the Arab Spring: Seasons of Death and White Carnations", in Middle Eastern Minorities and the Arab Spring: Identity and Community in the Twenty-First Century, ed. K. S. Parker and T. E. Nasrallah, Gorgias Press LLC (2017)
- The Visual Narratives of the High Renaissance: From Aleppo’s Circle to Jubran and New York Pen-Club, published in ARAM Periodical, University of Oxford, 25:1&2 (2013), 63-370, Volume 25 Number 2 (2013)
- “Aleppo: The first Ground for Arab-European Cultural encounters in the Early Modern Period”, Journal of Semitic Studies, supplement 28 for 2012, the Papers of the BRISMES conference at the University of Manchester in 2009. Oxford University Press (2012)
- The poetics of the Iraqi War: Between Discursive Conflicts and Diasporic Discourse, published in Acta Orientalia (2012: 73, 17-34)
- The Arab American Poets: Between Land of Liberty and Literary Exile, Aram Journal, Vol. 21, No. 1 (2009), Aram Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies, University of Oxford
- The Prose Poem and the Journal Shi'r: A Comparative Study of Literature, Literary Theory, and Journalism (2008)