Tahrir Hamdi is a professor of anti-colonial and resistance literature and Director of Arab Open University in Jordan. Prof. Hamdi has been with AOU/Jordan since 2004. She has taught many literature courses at AOU and was one of the founding members of the MA in literature programme. Prof. Hamdi recently won the Palestine Book Award 2023 in the “Counter Current” category for her book Imagining Palestine: Cultures of Exile and National Identity (2023). In 2020, Prof. Hamdi won the Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation’s Arab Researchers’ Award in the Humanities. She is an assistant editor with the journal Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ), a journal founded by Edward Said. She is also an associate editor of the journal Janus Unbound and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies, the Jordan Journal of Modern Languages & Literatures (JJMLL) and the International Journal of Arabic-English Studies (IJAES). Prof. Hamdi has co-edited a new book titled Ghassan Kanafani: Selected Political Works (2024) with the Irish academic, Dr. Louis Brehony.
I have been teaching for the past twenty years at schools and universities in
Jordan. I have taught all kinds of English courses such as:
In addition to teaching, I have also developed teaching materials, such as a
leadership course at the Jubilee School and a short story and essay writing course at Arab Open University.
***I have taught the following courses at Arab Open University:
· An Introduction to the Humanities A123 A&B
· The English Language: Past, Present and Future U210A
· Approaching Literature A210 A&B
· Literature in the Modern World A319 A&B
· All the MA courses: A801 (Research in English Studies), A802 (Theories in Criticism), A803 (The English Novel), A804 (Cultural Studies), A805 (The 19th and 20th Century Novel), A806 (Studies in Poetry), A807 (Comparative Literature) and A808 (Postcolonial Studies).
***I have taught the following PhD courses at the University of Jordan:
· African American Literature
· A Major Critic: Edward Said
· Arabic Texts in Arabic
· 2004- until present at Arab Open University/Jordan
· 2022-2023 until present Director of Arab Open University/Jordan
· Full Professor (since 2018)
· 2021-2022 Director’s Assistant for Academic Affairs at Arab Open University/Jordan.
· 2004-2020 Professor of Decolonial studies and Head of the English Department at Arab Open University/Jordan.
· 1998-2001, University of Jordan, Part time lecturer: Department of English and Language Center.
· 1993-2000, Jubilee School for the Gifted and Talented, Head of the English Department
1992-1993, New English School, English teacher.
1. 1. Book entitled Ghassan Kanafani: Selected Political Writings published by Pluto Press in October, 2024.
2. Book entitled Imagining Palestine: Cultures of Exile and National Identity published by Bloomsbury, London, UK, Dec. 2023. Winner of the Palestine Book Awards in the Counter Current category in 2023.
3. “Decolonizing English Literature Departments at Arab Universities” published in Arab Studies Quarterly, Pluto publishers and University of California, San Bernardino in Oct. 2022.
4. “Late Style as Resistance in Said, Darwish and Barghouti” is chapter one of a book entitled Post-Millennial Palestine published by Liverpool University Press, 2021.
5. “Creative Resistance in Modern Arabic Poetry” published in conference proceedings of the “Fourth International Middle East Symposium” at Gelisim Universitesi, Istanbul, Turkey, 2019.
6. “The Arab Intellectual and the Present Moment” published in Arab Studies Quarterly, Pluto journals, Vol. 41.1 Winter, 2019.
7. “The Intellectual Resistance of Yusuf Al-Ani” Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies, (with Tayseer Abu Odeh) March, 2019, Intellect Ltd, UK.
8. “Optimizing the Blended Learning Environment: the Arab Open University Experience” (with Prof. Mohammed Abu Qudais) Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-learning; Feb., 2018, Taylor & Francis, Routledge, London, UK.
9. “Where is Palestine in Caryl Phillips’s The Nature of Blood?” (with Ahlam Al Masri). International Journal of Arabic-English Studies, Vol. 18, 2018, Librairie du Liban Publishers.
10. “Edward Said, Postcolonialism and Palestine’s Contested Spaces” Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies Vol. 16, Issue 1. University of Edinburgh Press, UK, 2017.
11. “Darwish’s Geography: Space, Place and Identity under Construction” Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies Vol. 19, Issue 2. Taylor & Francis, Routledge, London, UK, Jan. 2017.
12. “The Power of Poetry to Travel: An Interview with Mourid Barghouti” in Arab Studies Quarterly Vol. 38, Issue 4. Pluto journals, Fall 2016.
13. “Reading, Imagining and Constructing Iraq” published in International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies, Vol. 10, Issue 1&2. Intellect Ltd United Kingdom, distributed by University of Chicago Press, March 2016.
14. “Yeats, Said and Decolonization” in Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Vol, 51, Issue 2, 2015. Taylor & Francis, Routledge, London, UK. Presented it at a University of Jordan conference called “Power to Connect.” April, 2014.
15. “Yeats’s Ireland, Darwish’s Palestine: the national in the personal, mystical and mythological” Arab Studies Quarterly Spring, Volume 36, Number 2, , Pluto Journals, California State University, San Bernardino, 2014.
16. “Edward Said and Recent Orientalist Critiques” Arab Studies Quarterly, Vol. 35, No. 2, Pluto Journals, California State University, San Bernardino, Spring 2013.
17. “Bearing Witness in Palestinian Resistance Literature” Race & Class, A Journal on Racism, Empire and Globalisation, Vol. 52, No. 3 Sage Publishers, London, UK, Jan.-March 2011.
18. Book Review of Abdullah Dabbagh's Literary Orientalism, Postcolonialism, and Universalism by Tahrir Hamdi International Journal of Arabic-English Studies, Vol.11, pp. 217-219, 2010.
19. “Burying the Dead: The Postcolonial Strategies of Achebe and Naipaul”
International Journal of Arabic -English Studies, Volume 9, 2008.
20. An Introduction to the Short Story (book) by Tahrir Hamdi and Angelica DeAngelis,
Arab Open University, 2008.
21. An Introduction to Essay Writing (book) by Angelica DeAngelis and Tahrir Hamdi, Arab Open University, 2008.
22. “A Political or Apolitical Literature?” International Journal of Arabic-English Studies, Volume 8, 2007.
23. “Foreign Literary Studies and the Identity of the Postcolonial Subject.” Ariel: A Review of International English Literature, University of Calgary, Canada, Oct 2006 (Now affiliated with Johns Hopkins University Press).
24. “The Terrible Beauty of Literary Study.” University of Sharjah Journal, Oct. 2006.
25. “Ideological Racism in Conrad's Nostromo.” Al Zaytoonah Journal of Scientific Studies and Research, June 2004.
26. Competency-Based English Test Document for End-of-Grade Nine: English Language Test Program, Obeikan Publishers.
27. Report on APETAU First Regional Forum, IJAES, Volume 6, 2005.
