Professor Mohamed-Salah Omri
Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature, Faculty of Oriental Studies; Fellow of St John's College
About
Professor Omri’s key research interests include modern Arabic literature, Francophone literature of the Maghreb, comparative and world literatures, literature and history. He has a particular interest in issues of narrative form, cultural politics and literature and knowledge.
Expertise
- Arab culture
- Arabic literature
- The Maghreb
- The southern Mediterranean
- Tunisia
Selected publications
- Nationalism, Islam and World Literature Sites of Confluence in the Writings of Mahmud Al-Mas’adi (2007)
- The Novelization of Islamic Literatures: the intersections of Western, Arabic, Persian, Urdu and Turkish Traditions (2007)