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Dr. Dalia Said Mostafa
Associate Professor
Dr. Dalia Said Mostafa
Associate Professor
Educational Qualifications
PhD in Postcolonial and Comparative Literature
MA in English and Comparative Literature
Entity
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Program
Master of Arts in Women, Society and Development
Divison
Middle Eastern Studies Department (MESD)
Biography
Up until January 2023 and before starting her post at HBKU, Dr. Dalia Mostafa held the post of Senior Lecturer in Arab Cultural Studies at the University of Manchester (UK). She obtained herPhD degree in Postcolonial and Comparative Literature from the University of Manchester in 2007. She worked under the supervision of the renowned scholar Professor Terry Eagleton, and her thesis was titled “Re-Cycling the Flâneur: The Image of the Narrator in Three Postcolonial Novels on the Cities of Cairo, Karachi, and Beirut”.
Following the PhD, Dr. Dalia obtained a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Modern Arab Cultural History (2007-2011) with the Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World (CASAW) at Manchester University. Her postdoctoral research focused on the literary and cinematic representations of Beirut in the Lebanese novel and film from 1975 to the 2000s. From 2011 to 2021, she held the post of Lecturer in Arabic & Comparative Literature at Manchester University.
Between 2016 & 2020, Dr. Dalia was a co-Investigator on the project “Politics and Popular Culture in Egypt: Contested Narratives of the 25 January Revolution and its Aftermath”, with colleagues from Warwick and Reading universities and the London School of Economics (LSE). The project was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council in the UK.
PhD in Postcolonial and Comparative Literature
University of Manchester - UK
2007
MA in English and Comparative Literature
The American University in Cairo - Egypt
2002
MA in Women’s Studies
University of Exeter - UK
1993
BA in Political Science
The American University in Cairo - Egypt
1989
- Representations of Gender, Race and Politics in Postcolonial and Comparative Literature in Arabic and English.
- Cinema and Society in the Middle East and North Africa.
- Popular Culture (with a focus on Music) in the Arab world.
- History of Arab cultural studies in the modern era.
Associate Professor
College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
2023 - Present
Senior Lecturer
Department of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies , University of Manchester
2021 - 2023
Lecturer
Department of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Manchester
2011 - 2021
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Manchester
2007 - 2011
Complete Publication Listing(s): Google Scholar
- 2016-2020: Co-Investigator of the project “Politics and Popular Culture in Egypt: Contested Narratives of the 25 January Revolution and its Aftermath”, through a grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC, UK), together with Warwick and Reading universities. One outcome of the project was the creation of the digital archive egyptrevolution2011.ac.uk.
- 2015-2016: Principal Investigator of the project “Exploring the Socio-Cultural Implications of the 2011 Arab Uprisings and their Aftermath”, through a grant from the School Research Networking Fund, University of Manchester.
- 2012-2013: Principal Investigator of the project “Women, Culture and the January 2011 Egyptian Revolution”, through a grant from the Centre for British Research in the Levant (CBRL) and the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES).
- 2011-2014: Co-Investigator of the project “Contemporary Arab Cinema”, through a grant from the British Academy.