Marwa Essam Eldin Fahmy Alkhayat

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Faculty of Languages and Translation, Department of Englsih Language
Ahram Canadian University

Marwa Essam Eldin Fahmy Alkhayat


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Marwa Essam Eldin Fahmy Alkhayat (Scopus ID: 57226661103 / http// is Professor of Comparative Literature and Criticism at Ahram Canadian University, Egypt. She received her MA (2002) and PhD (2010) degrees in Postcolonial Comparative Drama from the University of Cairo, Faculty of Arts. She published several academic articles in international journals on Gender Studies, Geocriticism, Multimodality, Animation and Postcolonial Children’s Picturebooks. Her recent major publications include Climate Fiction and Blue Humanities: “Hayao Miyazaki’s Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (2008): A Cli-Fi Reading of Japanese Anime”, Japanese Studies (Routledge, 2025), Gender Studies: “Towards a Feminization of Time in Michael Cunningham’s The Hours (1998) and Sahar Al-Mouji’s The Musk of the Hill (2017)”, Women's Studies (Routledge, 2023), Postcolonial Criticism: “Gothic Politics in Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad (2013)”, Arab Studies Quarterly (Pluto Journals, 2022)

EDUCATION

her MA (2002) and PhD (2010) degrees in Postcolonial Comparative Drama from the University of Cairo, Faculty of Arts.

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Literature and Literary Theory, Arts and Humanities, Language and Linguistics, General Arts and Humanities
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Scopus Publications

96

Scholar Citations

5

Scholar h-index

2

Scholar i10-index

Scopus Publications

  • Hayao Miyazaki’s Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (2008): A Cli-Fi Reading of Japanese Anime
    Marwa Alkhayat
    Japanese Studies, 2025
  • Towards a Feminization of Time in Michael Cunningham’s The Hours (1998) and Sahar Al-Mouji’s the Musk of the Hill (2017)
    Marwa Alkhayat
    Women S Studies, 2023
  • GOTHIC POLITICS IN AHMED SAADAWI’S FRANKENSTEIN IN BAGHDAD (2013)
    Marwa Essam Eldin Fahmy Alkhayat
    Arab Studies Quarterly, 2022
    The present article examines a narrative of darkness to illuminate the rhetoric of haunting and monstrosity. Gothicity evokes a sense of indeterminateness and it dramatizes disruptive incorporeal occurrences as interrogated in Ahmed Saadawi’sFrankenstein in Baghdad, a war Frankenfiction. It stages horror to chronicle national disintegration through the rise of a sewn-together zombie to mark the appalling arrival of the Iraqi dissenter. The new twenty-first-century monster is a zombie to defy marginality and to associate monstrosity with deviance and abnormality. Within this rationale, the present study investigates the aesthetics of Postcolonial Gothic politics to examine the use of the supernatural, the grotesque body, the monstrous abject, and the haunted ruins to depict a dismembered nation through the deployment of eerie motifs and surreal techniques. My premise fleshes out the Frankenstein hubris to dismantle the US political culture in Iraq. The aim is to reframe the modern Gothic monster as an emblem of reverse colonialism to defy the imperialist ideologies and to articulate past trauma through the rhetoric of bodily horror, haunting and ghostly fear.
  • Sabry musa's lord of the spinach field (1987): A critique of post-colonial utopianism
    Marwa Essam Eldin Fahmy Alkhayat
    Arab Studies Quarterly, 2021
    The present study examines the aesthetic features of Sabry Musa's Lord of the Spinach Field (1987) through Karl-Heinz Bohrer's “Utopia of the Subject” to foreground Homo's quest for a wished-for yet unattainable reality. Post-Colonial Utopianism depicts man's inner turmoil to force an act of willful rethinking to enhance the “anticipatory consciousness” of a better life, a point interrogated within Ernst Bloch's Principle of Hope to propose the concept of the “Not-Yet-Become”: the not realized futuristic reality. Therefore, the interest is in utopia/dystopia historicities as analytical markers of historical inquiry to analyze specific space/time coordinates; post-colonial pitfalls of a technoscience dystopia. As such, the remarkable characteristic of Post-Colonial Utopianism is critique, and “Subjective Utopia” strives to achieve a breach in the teleological ideology of historical structures; thereby, transformation is the central aesthetic strategy of post-colonial critique.

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Hayao Miyazaki’s Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (2008): A Cli-Fi Reading of Japanese Anime.
    MEEF Alkhayat
    Japanese Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/10371397.2024.24 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 2
  • Interlingual Subtitling of Ethno/Cultural Representation in Selected Episodes of Yahya and Kunooz Animated TV Series (2022)
    M Alkhayat, A Akram, S Afify
    Journal of Translation and Language Studies 4 (2), 40-59 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 1
  • Staging Body Politics in Tomson Highway’s The Rez Sisters (1986) and Brian Friel’s Dancing At Lughnasa (1990)
    MEE Alkhayat
    Transcultural Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences , 2023
    2023
  • Towards a Feminization of Time in Michael Cunningham’s The Hours and Sahar Al-Mouji’s The Musk of the Hill
    M Alkhayat
    Women's Studies, 1-23 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 3
  • GOTHIC POLITICS IN AHMED SAADAWI’S FRANKENSTEIN IN BAGHDAD (2013)
    MEEF Alkhayat
    ARAB STUDIES QUARTERLY 44 (2), 45-67 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 15
  • Sabry Musa's Lord of the Spinach Field (1987): A Critique of Post-Colonial Utopianism
    MEEF Alkhayat
    Arab Studies Quarterly 43 (3), 230-248 , 2021
    2021
  • Cities in Life-Writing Narratives: A Geocritical Reading of Hadiya Hussein's Beyond Love (2003) and Radwa Ashur's Al-Tantouria (2010)
    M Alkhayat
    Textual Turnings 3 (1), 45-72 , 2021
    2021
  • Celtic Myths in Cartoon Saloon’s The Secret of Kells (2009) and Song of the Sea (2014): A Critique of Irish Postcolonial Animation
    M AlKhayat
    Textual Turnings An International Peer-Reviewed Journal in English Studies 2 … , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 4
  • Screening Nature in Walt Disney's Bambi (1942) and Dr. Seuss's The Lorax (1972): An Ecocritical Approach to Enviro-toons
    MEEF Alkhayat
    مجلة وادي النيل للدراسات والبحوث الإنسانية والاجتماعية والتربويه 28 (28 … , 2020 ‎
    2020
    Citations: 3
  • Ali Salem's The Phantoms of New Egypt (1968)1: A Subversive Reading of Post-Independence Dystopia
    A Marwa
    Bulletin of Advanced English Studies 4 (1) , 2020
    2020
  • Shaun Tan's The Red Tree (2001): A Visual Reading of A Postmodern Picturebook
    M Essam Eldin Fahmi
    Textual Turnings: An International Peer-Reviewed Journal in English Studies … , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 1
  • Ali Salem's The Comedy of Oedipus: You're the One Who Killed the Beast (1969): A Classical Tragedy Revisited
    MEEF Al-Kkhayat
    Bulletin of Advanced English Studies–Vol 3 (1), 44-59 , 2019
    2019
  • Screening Nature in Walt Disneys Bambi (1942) and Dr. Seusss The Lorax (1972): An Ecocritical Approach to Enviro-toons
    MEE Fahmi
    International Journal of Language and Literature 6 (1), 80-91 , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 5
  • " Are My Songs Literature?": a Postmodern Appraisal of Bob Dylan's American Popular Music Culture
    ME (Marwa) Alkhayat
    Gadjah Mada University , 2018
    2018
  • Carnival Logics of Khayal Al-Zill in Rashad Rushdy's Behold! Behold! (1965): A Semiotic Study
    MEE Alkhayat
    Bulletin of Advanced English Studies 1 (1), 28-40 , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 1
  • " Are My Songs Literature?": A Postmodern Appraisal of Bob Dylan's American Popular Music Culture
    MEE Alkhayat
    Humaniora 30 (1), 27 , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 4
  • Stylistic Explorations and Literary Interpretations: A Handbook
    M Alkhayat
    Scholars' Press , 2017
    2017
  • Peter Jackson’s King Kong (2005): A critique of postcolonial/animal horror cinema
    M Fahmi
    English Language and Literature Studies 7 (2), 15-30 , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 6
  • Fantasy Chronotope in Two Animated Children’s Films: Walt Disney’s Alice in Wonderland (1951) and Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away (2001)
    MEE Fahmi
    Studies in Literature and Language 14 (1), 28-38 , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 5
  • Helen Recorvits's and Gabi Swiatkowska's My Name is Yoon (2003): A Postcolonial Picture Book of Asian American Child's Journey Into Assimilation and Heterogeneity
    ME Fahmi
    International Journal of English and Literature (IJEL) ISSN (P), 2249-6912 , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 5

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • A cross-cultural study of some selected Arabic proverbs and their English translation equivalents: A contrastive approach
    MEE Fahmi
    International Journal of Comparative Literature & Translation Studies 4 (2), 51 , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 29
  • GOTHIC POLITICS IN AHMED SAADAWI’S FRANKENSTEIN IN BAGHDAD (2013)
    MEEF Alkhayat
    ARAB STUDIES QUARTERLY 44 (2), 45-67 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 15
  • Towards a Visual Discourse in Children’s Picturebooks: Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902), John Marsden’s and Shaun Tan’s The Rabbits (1998)
    MEE Fahmi
    International Journal of English and Literature 5 (6), 9-28 , 2015
    2015
    Citations: 7
  • Peter Jackson’s King Kong (2005): A critique of postcolonial/animal horror cinema
    M Fahmi
    English Language and Literature Studies 7 (2), 15-30 , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 6
  • Screening Nature in Walt Disneys Bambi (1942) and Dr. Seusss The Lorax (1972): An Ecocritical Approach to Enviro-toons
    MEE Fahmi
    International Journal of Language and Literature 6 (1), 80-91 , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 5
  • Fantasy Chronotope in Two Animated Children’s Films: Walt Disney’s Alice in Wonderland (1951) and Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away (2001)
    MEE Fahmi
    Studies in Literature and Language 14 (1), 28-38 , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 5
  • Helen Recorvits's and Gabi Swiatkowska's My Name is Yoon (2003): A Postcolonial Picture Book of Asian American Child's Journey Into Assimilation and Heterogeneity
    ME Fahmi
    International Journal of English and Literature (IJEL) ISSN (P), 2249-6912 , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 5
  • Celtic Myths in Cartoon Saloon’s The Secret of Kells (2009) and Song of the Sea (2014): A Critique of Irish Postcolonial Animation
    M AlKhayat
    Textual Turnings An International Peer-Reviewed Journal in English Studies 2 … , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 4
  • " Are My Songs Literature?": A Postmodern Appraisal of Bob Dylan's American Popular Music Culture
    MEE Alkhayat
    Humaniora 30 (1), 27 , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 4
  • Towards a Feminization of Time in Michael Cunningham’s The Hours and Sahar Al-Mouji’s The Musk of the Hill
    M Alkhayat
    Women's Studies, 1-23 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 3
  • Screening Nature in Walt Disney's Bambi (1942) and Dr. Seuss's The Lorax (1972): An Ecocritical Approach to Enviro-toons
    MEEF Alkhayat
    مجلة وادي النيل للدراسات والبحوث الإنسانية والاجتماعية والتربويه 28 (28 … , 2020 ‎
    2020
    Citations: 3
  • Shaun Tan’s The Arrival (2006): A Visual Postcolonial Study of ‘Migrant’s Experience
    MEE Fahmy
    International Journal of English Language & Literature 5 (3) , 2015
    2015
    Citations: 3
  • Hayao Miyazaki’s Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (2008): A Cli-Fi Reading of Japanese Anime.
    MEEF Alkhayat
    Japanese Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/10371397.2024.24 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 2
  • A Visual Asian American Diaspora: Belle Yang’s Hannah is My Name (2004) and Guene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese (2006)
    MEE Fahmi
    English Language and Literature Studies 6 (2), 43 , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 2
  • Interlingual Subtitling of Ethno/Cultural Representation in Selected Episodes of Yahya and Kunooz Animated TV Series (2022)
    M Alkhayat, A Akram, S Afify
    Journal of Translation and Language Studies 4 (2), 40-59 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 1
  • Shaun Tan's The Red Tree (2001): A Visual Reading of A Postmodern Picturebook
    M Essam Eldin Fahmi
    Textual Turnings: An International Peer-Reviewed Journal in English Studies … , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 1
  • Carnival Logics of Khayal Al-Zill in Rashad Rushdy's Behold! Behold! (1965): A Semiotic Study
    MEE Alkhayat
    Bulletin of Advanced English Studies 1 (1), 28-40 , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 1
  • Staging Body Politics in Tomson Highway’s The Rez Sisters (1986) and Brian Friel’s Dancing At Lughnasa (1990)
    MEE Alkhayat
    Transcultural Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences , 2023
    2023
  • Sabry Musa's Lord of the Spinach Field (1987): A Critique of Post-Colonial Utopianism
    MEEF Alkhayat
    Arab Studies Quarterly 43 (3), 230-248 , 2021
    2021
  • Cities in Life-Writing Narratives: A Geocritical Reading of Hadiya Hussein's Beyond Love (2003) and Radwa Ashur's Al-Tantouria (2010)
    M Alkhayat
    Textual Turnings 3 (1), 45-72 , 2021
    2021