Dr. Asmaa Essakouti

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Interessen

Vormoderne und moderne arabische Literatur

Narratologie, Fiktion, Maqāmāt

Studium

01/03/2024- 30/06/2026

Postdoc in Institut für Islamwissenschaft/Arabistik. Münster Universität, Münster (Germany).

01/10/2018- 20/10/2023:

PhD in Arabistik, Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies (BGSMCS). Free University of Berlin, Berlin (Germany).

 Projekt: Realms of Strangers: Readers, Language, and Trickery in Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrī’s

22/09/2016–03/06/2018:

Master’s degree in Comparative Literature in Doha institute for Graduate Studies

 Projekt: The Palimpsests of Voice: The Book of those without a Book

10/10/2014–15/07/2016:

Specialized master’s degree in Linguistic and Literary Approaches of Arabic in Moulay Ismail’s University (ENS)

Project: Metafiction and Pleasure; A Close Reading of Italo Calvino’s Novel If in a Winter’s Night a Traveller

05/09/2012–15/07/2014:

Bachelor in Arabic Studies in Ibn Zohr University, Marokko

01/09/2011–31/06/2012:

First year in Preparatory Classes of Literature and social sciences in Omar Al-Khayam, Rabat

Publikationen

In Zeitschriften (peer-reviewed):

- Asmaa Essakouti, ‘‘The Thin Line between Lying and Using Linguistic Possibilities: Tawriyah or Double-Entendre in al-Ḥarīrī’s Maqāmāt’’, AWL, London, 27 June 2022, 1-16

- Asmaa Essakouti & Hossein Dabbagh (2019), The Aesthetics of Post Bellum: From Umberto Eco to Abu al- Ala al-Maarri, Comparative Literature: East & West, 3:1, 15-27

- Asmaa Essakouti, “The Theory of Literary Genre: Pedagogical Categorization or Cultural

Positionality?” Journal of Tabayyun for cultural studies and critical theory, Issue 21 - Volume 5 -summer 2017, (pp. 63-77).

Auf Websites (peer-reviewed):

Asmaa Essakouti, “(Un)veiling Language or Frames in Ḥarīrī’s Maqāmāt.”  Living Handbook of Temporal Communities (LHTC), Berlin (forthcoming).

Asmaa Essakouti, “al-Tarjama wa-muqāwamat al-maḥw’’ [Translation Resisting Invisibility], in: Mouminoun Without Borders, 22 December 2020, link: https://bit.ly/2YqAJUw

Asmaa Essakouti, “al-Junūn wa-ʿabbārū al-maʿna:  Nietzsche, Abū al-ʿIbar, Don Quixote'' [Madness and Crossers of Meaning], in: Mouminoun Without Borders, 04 May 2019, link: https://bit.ly/2MBBwPu

Asmaa Essakouti, "al-Jasad bayn al-tasmiya wa-l-tawqīʿ al-abyaḍ’’ [The body between Naming and White Signatures], in: Mominoun without Borders, date of publication: 24 December 2018, Link: https://goo.gl/f54qR7

Asmaa Essakouti, " al-Ṣawt wa-l- ṭirs al-ilāhī’’ [ The Voice and the Divine Palimpsest], in: Mominoun without Borders, date of publication: 25 October 2018, Link: https://goo.gl/kZ4PWx

Asmaa Essakouti, “Fī l-ḥāja al-jamāliyya li-sharr wa-l-qubḥ; Min al-shaytān ilā al-maskh’’ [The Aesthetical Need for Ugliness and Evil; From Devils to Monsters], in: Mominoun without Borders, date of publication: 09 May 2018, Link: https://goo.gl/MkvHVX

Asmaa Essakouti, “al-Afʿā wa-sardiyyāt al-khalq: Adam, Gilgamesh wa-Ḥayy Ibn Yaqẓān’’ [The Serpent in Stories of Creation], in: Mominoun without Borders, date of publication: 10 February 2018. Link: goo.gl/vprAbr

Asmaa Essakouti, “al-Dhāt bayna al-taṣawwuf wa-l-raqmiyya: Ḥay Ibn Yaqẓān Namūdhajan’’ [The Self from Sufism to Digitalization; Hay Ibn Yaqzan as Illustration], in:

Mominoun without Borders, date of publication: 20 January 2018. Link: goo.gl/21nSEY

Asmaa Essakouti, “al-Wajh al-muẓlim li-l-Taʾwīl’’ [The Darkside of Interpretation], in: Mominoun without Borders, date of publication: 02 October 2017. Link: https://goo.gl/HpFQ8r

In Magazinen über Literatur:

- Asmaa Essakouti, “Hal yumkin akl al-lugha’’ [Can We Eat Language], in: Mirit Cultural Magazine, Cairo, n 5, May 2019.

- Asmaa Essakouti, ‘‘Min al-qāriʾ al-ʿaduww ʾilā al-qāriʾ al-muhādin” [From the Opponent Reader to the Peaceful One], Bidāyāt, Beirut, December 2018.

- Asmaa Essakouti, ‘‘Tārīkh li-l-mutkhamīn... Ḥikayāt li-l-jawʿā” [History for the Wealthy... Tales for the Poor], Doha magazine, Doha, number: 133, November 2018.

- Asmaa Essakouti, ‘‘al-Lughā ʿukkāz ʾam ʿaṣā: Qirāʾa fī naṣ al-mustanbiḥ" [Is language a Cane or a Weapon? A reading in Kilito's al-Mustanbih], Ṣaqīla magazine, Tangier, October 2018.

- Asmaa Essakouti, “Kayfa takallama ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ Kilīṭū?’’ [How Did Abdelfattah Kilito Speak?] Doha magazine, Doha, number: 125, March 2018.

- Asmaa Essakouti, “al-Baṭal fī al-riwāya al-ʿarabiyya’’ [The Hero in the Arabic Novel], Doha magazine, Doha, number: 118, August 2017.

- Asmaa Essakouti, ‘‘al-Khayāl wa-l-tawahhum: Bayna Shahrazād wa-Don Quixote’’ [Imagination and Illusion; Between Shahrazad and Don Quixote”, Al-Jadid magazine, London, number: 32, September 2017

Auf Webseiten über Literatur:

- Essakouti, “Aswaʾ ḥikāyāt alf līla wa-līla” [The Worst stories of Alf Līla], Boring books, 02. November 2023, link: https://boringbooks.net/2023/11/worst-stories-in-one-thousand-and-one-nights.html

- Essakouti, “Asṭarat al-mawtā: aw limādhā nabkī l-awghād” [Romanticizing the Dead: Or Why Do We Cry Over the Wicked?], Boring books, 07. January 2023, link: https://boringbooks.net/2023/01/myths-about-the-dead.html

- Essakouti, al-Wardany and Others, ‘‘Rasāʾil ilā Birlīn’’ [Letters to Berlin], Boring books, 21 October 2022, link: https://boringbooks.net/2022/10/letters-to-berlin.html

- Asmaa Essakouti, “al-Safar, al-damm wa-l-nisyān, fī al-riḥla al-rābiʿa li-l-sindibād’’ [Travelling, Blood and Oblivion in the Fourth travel of Sindbad], in: Boring books, 04 April 2021, link: https://boringbooks.net/2021/04/sinbad-the-sailor.html

- Asmaa Essakouti, “ʾAbnāʾ Qābīl: Bayna laʿnat al-taghrīb wa-l-baʿth al-muʾansin'' [The Children of Cain: Between the Curse of Strangerhood and Humanistic Reincarnation], in: Boring books, 28 August 2020, link: https://boringbooks.net/2020/08/cain-sons.html

- Asmaa Essakouti, ''Goethe mutalaṣṣiṣan: Al-adab al-ʿālamī wa-l-tarjama'' [Goethe as a Voyeur: World Literature and Translation], in: Turjoman, 20 June 2020, link: https://turjoman.boringbooks.net/?p=625

- Asmaa Essakouti, ''Ikū aw al-ḥajīza bayna al-ṣawt wa-l-ṣamt'', in: Boringbooks, 24 Mai 2020, link: https://boringbooks.net/2020/05/echo-sound-and-silence.html

- Asmaa Essakouti " ʿAn al-ṣawt wa-l-Sawṭ’’ [On Sounds and Whips: A Reading in the novel of Yalu], in: ʾIḍaʾāt, Date of publication: 08 July 2017. Link: http://bit.ly/2ftWk7P

- Asmaa Essakouti “al-Junūn bayna makr al-tārīkh wa-ʿālam al-mukaʿʿabāt; Qirāʾa fī Majānīn Bayt Laḥm’’ [Madness between Historical Cruelty Cubical Worlds], in: Ḥikma, date: April 2017. Link: http://bit.ly/2yJzhOW

- Asmaa Essakouti, ‘‘Fann al-takhallī: al-Bayāḍ wa-ʿawālim al-naṣ al-sawdāʾ’’ [The art of Giving up: Ellipses and Black Textual Worlds], in: ʾIḍaʾāt, Date of publication: 17 Mars 2017. Link: http://bit.ly/2fBZiuX

- Asmaa Essakouti, ‘‘al-Mawt bayn al-mubtadhal wa-l-maʾsāt: Namādhij min al-qiṣṣa wa-l-riwāya’’ [Death Trivial or Tragic in Short Stories and Novels], in: ʾIḍaʾāt, Date of publication: 03 March 2017. Link: http://bit.ly/2fUDpUh

- Asmaa Essakouti, “al-Adab wa-l-muʾassasa’’ [Literature and Institution] in: ʾIḍaʾāt, Date of publication: 27 February 2017. Link: http://bit.ly/2xEQbhn

- Asmaa Essakouti, ‘‘al-Adab wa-l-jander: mādha yastaṭīʿ al-ʾAdab fiʿlahu fī ʿālamin dhukūriy’’ [Literature and Gender: What Can Literature Do in a Patriarchal World?], in: Ḥikma, Date of publication: 26 February 2017, Link: https://goo.gl/Ph924k