BOOKS by Dina Heshmat
Edinburgh University Press, 2020
This chapter of my book Egypt 1919: The Revolution in Literature and Film analyses Hasan al-Imam’... more This chapter of my book Egypt 1919: The Revolution in Literature and Film analyses Hasan al-Imam’s film adaptation of Naguib Mahfouz’ novel Bayn al-Qasrayn (1964). I read cinema as a genre that ‘defigurated’, to use Kirstin Ross’ expression, the 1919 events by fitting it into the Free
Officers’ ideological reframing of the nationalist movement. I argue that al-Imam transformed Mahfouz’s liberal representation of the revolution into a Nasserist rhetoric through a number of compelling additions to the original plot presented in a melodramatic fashion. Fahmi turns from a nationalist student into an armed resistant fighter, the discourse about religious unity between Muslims and Copts is significantly radicalised, and women are granted a much more active role than in the novel–as they are placed at the centre of the film’s rhetoric about progress. Moreover, I show, through a detailed analysis of mise-en-scene elements– montage, style of acting, music (including songs by Sayyid Darwish),– how al-Imam efficiently exploited the genre of melodrama, playing with emotions of grief and joy in order to build a cathartic expression of unity.
Edinburgh University Press, 2020
The 1919 anti-colonial revolution is a key moment in modern Egyptian history and a historical ref... more The 1919 anti-colonial revolution is a key moment in modern Egyptian history and a historical reference point in Egyptian culture through the century. Dina Heshmat argues that literature and film have played a central role in the making of its memory. She highlights the processes of remembering and forgetting that have contributed to shaping a dominant imaginary about 1919 in Egypt, coined by successive political and cultural elites. As she seeks to understand how and why so many voices have been relegated to the margins, she reinserts elements of the different representations into the dominant narrative. This opens up a new perspective on the legacy of 1919 in Egypt, inviting readers to meet the marginalised voices of the revolution and to reconnect with its layered emotional fabric.
المجلس الأعلى للثقافة، القاهرة, 2007
PAPERS by Dina Heshmat
This article deals with writings by a generation of Algerian novelists working as journalists who... more This article deals with writings by a generation of Algerian novelists working as journalists who were born in the late 1960s/ early 1970s. It focuses on a novel by Kamel Daoud, Meursault contre-enquête (2013), that became famous after being short-list ed for the Goncourt prize in 2014. The author analyzes the con tinuity between literary and journalistic writings by Daoud, as well as his writing's intertextuality with Albert Camus's novel L'étranger. The article demonstrates how the narrative functions as a dark depiction of contemporary Algeria, thus adding to its aesthetic value a documentary one.
قاهرة محفوظ واسطنبول باموك: مدينتان في قلب التقلّبات التاريخية والثقافية
دينا حشمت
تهدف هذة الم... more قاهرة محفوظ واسطنبول باموك: مدينتان في قلب التقلّبات التاريخية والثقافية
دينا حشمت
تهدف هذة المقالة إلى تحليل صورة المدينة في أعمال نجيب محفوظ وأورهان باموك، من خلال روايات منشورة في مراحل مختلفة من مسيرتهما الأدبية، من ثلاثية محفوظ (1956-1957) إلى "يوم قتل الزعيم" (1985) ومن رواية باموك الأولى، الشبيهة بالثلاثية، "جودت بيك وأبناؤه" (1982) إلى "اسطنبول، الذكريات والمدينة" (2003). يركّز التحليل على صورة الفضاء المديني كساحة صراع بين القديم والجديد، وعلى هذه الصورة في علاقتها بمشروع إعادة التأريخ الخاص بكلّ من الكاتبين. كما تقوم المقالة بربط هذا التحليل بموقع الكاتبين في الحقل الأدبي.
This article examines the representation of Cairo and Istanbul in the works of Naguib Mahfouz and Orhan Pamuk, through novels pub lished at different moments of their careers, from Mahfouz's Trilogy (1956-1957) to The Day the Leader was Killed (1985), and from Pamuk's first novel, similar to a trilogy, Cevdet Bey and His Sons (1982) to Istanbul, Memories and the City (2003). The article argues that urban space is represented in these narratives as the locus of a conflict between the old and the new, and insists on the link between this representation and each writer's project for rewriting history. The analysis is also linked with both writers' position in the literary field.
BOOK CHAPTERS by Dina Heshmat
In the Shoes of the Other: Interdisciplinary Essays in Translation Studies from Cairo, edited by Samia Mehrez, 2019
BOOK REVIEWS by Dina Heshmat
DICTIONNARY ENTRIES by Dina Heshmat
Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three, Kate Fleet, Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas, Everett Row... more Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three, Kate Fleet, Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas, Everett Rowson, eds. Leiden Boston: 2019. “Ḥusayn, Muḥammad Kāmil”, 61-63.
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BOOKS by Dina Heshmat
Officers’ ideological reframing of the nationalist movement. I argue that al-Imam transformed Mahfouz’s liberal representation of the revolution into a Nasserist rhetoric through a number of compelling additions to the original plot presented in a melodramatic fashion. Fahmi turns from a nationalist student into an armed resistant fighter, the discourse about religious unity between Muslims and Copts is significantly radicalised, and women are granted a much more active role than in the novel–as they are placed at the centre of the film’s rhetoric about progress. Moreover, I show, through a detailed analysis of mise-en-scene elements– montage, style of acting, music (including songs by Sayyid Darwish),– how al-Imam efficiently exploited the genre of melodrama, playing with emotions of grief and joy in order to build a cathartic expression of unity.
PAPERS by Dina Heshmat
دينا حشمت
تهدف هذة المقالة إلى تحليل صورة المدينة في أعمال نجيب محفوظ وأورهان باموك، من خلال روايات منشورة في مراحل مختلفة من مسيرتهما الأدبية، من ثلاثية محفوظ (1956-1957) إلى "يوم قتل الزعيم" (1985) ومن رواية باموك الأولى، الشبيهة بالثلاثية، "جودت بيك وأبناؤه" (1982) إلى "اسطنبول، الذكريات والمدينة" (2003). يركّز التحليل على صورة الفضاء المديني كساحة صراع بين القديم والجديد، وعلى هذه الصورة في علاقتها بمشروع إعادة التأريخ الخاص بكلّ من الكاتبين. كما تقوم المقالة بربط هذا التحليل بموقع الكاتبين في الحقل الأدبي.
This article examines the representation of Cairo and Istanbul in the works of Naguib Mahfouz and Orhan Pamuk, through novels pub lished at different moments of their careers, from Mahfouz's Trilogy (1956-1957) to The Day the Leader was Killed (1985), and from Pamuk's first novel, similar to a trilogy, Cevdet Bey and His Sons (1982) to Istanbul, Memories and the City (2003). The article argues that urban space is represented in these narratives as the locus of a conflict between the old and the new, and insists on the link between this representation and each writer's project for rewriting history. The analysis is also linked with both writers' position in the literary field.
BOOK CHAPTERS by Dina Heshmat
BOOK REVIEWS by Dina Heshmat
DICTIONNARY ENTRIES by Dina Heshmat
Officers’ ideological reframing of the nationalist movement. I argue that al-Imam transformed Mahfouz’s liberal representation of the revolution into a Nasserist rhetoric through a number of compelling additions to the original plot presented in a melodramatic fashion. Fahmi turns from a nationalist student into an armed resistant fighter, the discourse about religious unity between Muslims and Copts is significantly radicalised, and women are granted a much more active role than in the novel–as they are placed at the centre of the film’s rhetoric about progress. Moreover, I show, through a detailed analysis of mise-en-scene elements– montage, style of acting, music (including songs by Sayyid Darwish),– how al-Imam efficiently exploited the genre of melodrama, playing with emotions of grief and joy in order to build a cathartic expression of unity.
دينا حشمت
تهدف هذة المقالة إلى تحليل صورة المدينة في أعمال نجيب محفوظ وأورهان باموك، من خلال روايات منشورة في مراحل مختلفة من مسيرتهما الأدبية، من ثلاثية محفوظ (1956-1957) إلى "يوم قتل الزعيم" (1985) ومن رواية باموك الأولى، الشبيهة بالثلاثية، "جودت بيك وأبناؤه" (1982) إلى "اسطنبول، الذكريات والمدينة" (2003). يركّز التحليل على صورة الفضاء المديني كساحة صراع بين القديم والجديد، وعلى هذه الصورة في علاقتها بمشروع إعادة التأريخ الخاص بكلّ من الكاتبين. كما تقوم المقالة بربط هذا التحليل بموقع الكاتبين في الحقل الأدبي.
This article examines the representation of Cairo and Istanbul in the works of Naguib Mahfouz and Orhan Pamuk, through novels pub lished at different moments of their careers, from Mahfouz's Trilogy (1956-1957) to The Day the Leader was Killed (1985), and from Pamuk's first novel, similar to a trilogy, Cevdet Bey and His Sons (1982) to Istanbul, Memories and the City (2003). The article argues that urban space is represented in these narratives as the locus of a conflict between the old and the new, and insists on the link between this representation and each writer's project for rewriting history. The analysis is also linked with both writers' position in the literary field.