| Title: | Professor |
| Dept: | World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures |
| Office: | RT 1625 |
| Phone: | 216-523-7174 |
| Email: | H.ELATTAR@csuohio.edu |
| Address: | 2121 Euclid Ave. RT 1625, Cleveland, OH 44115 |
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| Education: | ||
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Ph.D., 20th Century Peninsular Literature, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2003
M.A., Latin American literature, UW-Milwaukee, 2004 M.A., Translation, Cairo, 1996 | ||
| Brief Bio: | ||
| Full Professor
Research interest focuses on novels, poetry, and films by Chilean of Palestinian descent in Chile. | ||
| Honors and Awards: | ||
| FSI 2013 and 2017 | ||
| Creative and Activities: | ||
| First: Accepted and/or Published Peer Reviewed/Juried Articles, Book Chapters, Edited Volumes, Translated Books, and/or Films
1. ¿The Arab World in/and Gabriel García Márquez,¿ in The Oxford Handbook of Gabriel García Márquez. Eds. Ignacio López Calvo and Gene Bell-Villada. Oxford University Press (Accepted). 2.¿Restoring Narratives: Third Generation Palestinian-Chileans and Cinema,¿ Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, 99 (Dec. 2019): 185-190. 3."Espacios acústicos palestino-chilenos: El caso del programa radial Palestina por siempre, MEAH(Miscelánea de Estudios Árabes y Hebraicos), Sección Árabe-Islam, 68 (2019): 441- 450. 4. García Márquez, Gabriel. Por la libre. Translated by El-Attar and Gihan Hamed, Al Farabi, 2017. 5.Chile¿ (Arab Diaspora Novel in Chile), in The Oxford Handbook of the Arabic Novel. Ed. Wail Hassan, UK: Oxford University Press, 2017. 6. Teaching/Learning Interculturality and Diversity through Foreign Film, eds. El Attar et al., special issue of Cultural Encounters, Conflicts, and Resolutions, vol. 2, n. 1, 2017. 7.El mundo árabe¿ en Chile,¿ Rondas Literarias, Rondas Literarias, Pennsylvania: Grelin Press, 2016. (n.p.) 8. Christian Palestine in Chile. Directed by El Attar, Arab Film Distribution, 2016. 9. Crossing Cinematographic and Geopolitical Borders: Palestinian-Chilean Film Director Miguel Littin, in Constructing Identities: The Interaction of National,Gender and Racial Borders. Eds. Antonio Medina-Rivera and Lee Wilberschied. UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. 10.El poeta palestino-chileno Mahfud Massís y las ¿Guerrillas de Palestina: Historia de una resistencia, in Más Allá del Oriente Medio. Eds. Ranaan Rein et al. Granada: Universidad de Granada Press, 2012, 99-115. 11.¿Palestinian and Jewish Communal Press in Chile: The Case of Al-Damir and La Palabra Israelita,¿Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, 6, 2 (2011): 189-206. 12.¿Between Turcophobia and Turcophilia: Politics of Representations of Arabs in Latin America.¿In Cultural Politics of the Middle East in the Americas. Eds. Ella Shohat and Evelyn Alsultany. Univ. of Michigan Press, 2012, 252-63. 13. ¿A Literary IntifaDah. Mahfud Massís, a Palestinian-Chilean Poet,¿ Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe, 21, 2 (2010). (n.p.) 14. ¿ ¿Oh, you¿re an Arab¿ I love hummus!¿ Mezze: Cultural Dialogue Appetizers,¿ Arab Journal for the Humanities, 109, 28 (2010): 229-43. 15. ¿Orientalismo hispanoamericano en Crónica de una muerte anunciada de G. García Márquez y La Turca de Jorge Luis Oviedo,¿ Hispania, 91, 4 (2009): 904-914. 16. ¿Women, Gender and Conversions in South America: The Latina Muslims.¿ Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures V.5. Ed. Suad Joseph. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2007, 299-301. 17. ¿Diálogo latinoamericano-árabe: desde el multi e interculturalismo hacia la multipolaridad,¿Hispania 89, 3 (2006): 574-84. 18. Fuentes, Carlos. Diana. Cazadora solitaria. Translated by El-Attar, Dar Sharqiyyat, 2001. 19. De Asís Garrote, M.D. Última hora de la novela española. Translated by El-Attar et al., Ministry of Culture, National Center for Translation, 2000. Second: Selected Scholarly and/or Creative Contributions in Newspapers 20."My name is Norman Zunaich and I died last week," Lakewood Observer, April issue, 2016. 21.¿Latin America: The Continent of Five Revolutions,¿ Majalet al Thaqaafah al jadeedah, October issue, 2011. 22.¿ ¿Arawood¿ Arab Film Industry,¿ Al-Ahram-Al Masa¿i, 17 June, 2011. 23. ¿The Revolution and the Egyptian Higher Ed, Al-Ahram-Al Masa¿i, June, 2011. 24. ¿Migration Studies and Post-Revolutionary Arab World,¿ Majalet al Thaqaafah al jadeedah, 2011. | ||
| Research Interests: | ||
| Literature, newspapers, and films by Chilean of Palestinian descent in Chile.
Book translation. Documentary filmmaking. | ||
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| Links to my courses on Literary Journalism and Medieval Iberia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XukensErXic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YaqrUOL8zI Links to the general program in Spanish at CSU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGZxq_SmLUM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg13yslF_So | ||