Prof. Mohammad Shaaban Ahmad Deyab is a distinguished academician with a Ph.D. in English from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA, awarded in 2004. His doctoral research, supervised by Prof. Elizabeth Klaver, focused on "Womanist Discourse in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye (1970), Sula (1974), and Beloved (1987): Analytical and Computational Study". Dr. Deyab has held academic positions at several esteemed institutions, including Minia University, Taibah University, and Badr University in Cairo. He also served as the Managing Editor for the Transcultural Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of English Literature at AOU, Bahrain, and the Head of the Translation Unit.
Professor
Deyab's teaching experience encompasses a range of undergraduate and graduate
courses, including:
- An
Introduction to American Literature
- An Introduction
to English Drama
- An
Introduction to English Literature
- An
Introduction to English Poetry
- An
Introduction to Short Story
- Children
Literature
- Comparative
Literature
- Eighteenth
Century British Civilization
- History of
English Literature
- History of
English Novel
- Literary
Criticism
- Methods of
Research
- Modern and
Contemporary English Novel
- Nineteenth
Century British Civilization
- Practical
Criticism
Professor Mohammad Shaaban Ahmad
Deyab has a comprehensive professional career in academia:
- Professor,
Department of English, School of Linguistics and Translation, Badr
University in Cairo, Egypt (2020-Present)
- Managing Editor,
Transcultural Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Badr University
in Cairo (2020-Present)
- Professor & Chair,
Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Minia University, Minia, Egypt
(2018-2020)
- Associate Professor,
Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Minia University, Minia, Egypt
(2015-2018)
- Associate Professor,
Department of Foreign Languages and Translation, Faculty of Arts and
Humanities, Taibah University, KSA (2012-2015)
- Assistant Professor,
Department of Foreign Languages and Translation, Faculty of Arts and
Humanities, Taibah University, KSA (2007-2012)
- Assistant Professor,
Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Minia University, Egypt
(2004-2007)
- Research Assistant
with Prof. Elizabeth Klaver, English Department, Southern Illinois
University Carbondale (SIUC), USA (2004)
- Graduate Assistant,
Office of International Students and Scholars, SIUC, USA (2003-2004)
- Student Worker,
Office of International Undergraduate Admissions, SIUC, USA (2001-2003)
- Assistant Lecturer,
Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Minia University (1997-2000)
- Demonstrator,
Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Minia University (1995-1997)
He also holds several administrative
positions, including Head of the English Department and Referee at the National
Promotion Committee. He is also a referee for various international and
national academic journals.
Published Papers - Deyab, M. S. (2026). Beyond Western feminism: Embracing womanism in the Arab world. International Journal of Gender and Women's Studies. (Accepted for publication).
- Deyab, M. S., et al. (2026). Voices of resilience: Womanism and intersectionality in El Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero (1977) and Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus (2003). Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics. (Accepted for publication).
- Deyab, M. S., et al. (2025). Yet I alive! Decision-making during pandemics in Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year (1722). Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, 27(4), 512–527.
- Deyab, M. S., & Elshaikh, E. A. (2021). Am I not a child? Palestinian child rights’ violations in Cathryn Clinton’s A Stone in My Hand (2002). Journal of Human Rights, 1–12. Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group.
- Deyab, M. (2022). Womanism: Definition and history. Misr University Journal for Humanities, 2(3), 288–323.
- Deyab, M. (2022). What Dante means to me: Dante Alighieri's influence on T. S. Eliot and other English writers. Transcultural Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 3(1), 20–34.
- Deyab, M., & Elshaikh, E. (2018). Chinua Achebe; dialogical self theory; Hubert Hermans; internal vs. external I-positions; Things Fall Apart. Imbizo, 8(1).
Conferences
- International Conference on Life Sciences, Engineering and Technology (ILSET) New York, USA — April 9, 2026
- 5th International Conference: Intersectionality in Literature, Linguistics and Translation Faculty of Alsun, Ain Shams University, Egypt — April 7–9, 2025 Presented abstract: “Voices of Resilience: Exploring Womanism and Intersectionality in Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus (2003) and El Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero (1977).”
- International Conference: Transnational Feminism — Explorations, Communications, Challenges and Horizons Badr University in Cairo, Egypt — October 28–29, 2023 Organized by BUC, University of Ottawa, and Cairo University Presented abstract: “Womanism Vs. Feminism in Egypt.”
- 2nd International Conference: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature, Language and Translation Badr University in Cairo, Egypt — October 15–16, 2022
- 1st International Conference on Dante and the Arab World: 700 Years Later Badr University in Cairo, Egypt — October 23–24, 2021 Presented abstract: “What Dante Means to Me: Dante Alighieri's Influence on T.S. Eliot and Other English Writers.”
- Dialogue and Exchange: An Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities (DEICH) Badr University in Cairo, Egypt — October 24–26, 2020
- SAMLA 91 | Languages: Power, Identity, Relationships South Atlantic Modern Language Association Annual Conference Atlanta, GA, USA — November 15–17, 2019
- 3rd Biannual International Conference on Liberty and Human Rights Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, Egypt — April 8–10, 2017
- 13th International Symposium on Comparative Literature: Voices Of/From Africa Cairo University, Egypt — November 15–17, 2016
- Shakespeare and Our Times Conference Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA — April 14–16, 2016
- 34th International Conference: Development Strategies and the Future of Justice Faculty of Arts, Minia University, Egypt — March 14–16, 2016
- 12th International Symposium on Comparative Literature: Literature and Language of Resistance Cairo University, Egypt — November 11–13, 2014
- Islamic University Conference on the Prophet Muhammad Al-Madinah Al Munwarah, KSA — November 2013
- Second Symposium on Ecology in Literature and Language University of Dammam, KSA — April 3–5, 2011
- Inside the Saudi University Preparatory Year English Programme: The Future and Beyond Taibah University, Al-Madinah Al Munwarah, KSA — April 12–13, 2011
- Conference of Female Higher Education: Trends and Perspectives Taibah University, Al-Madinah Al Munwarah, KSA — January 4–6, 2010
- 9th International Symposium on Comparative Literature: Egypt at the Crossroads — Literary and Linguistic Studies Cairo University, Egypt — November 4–6, 2008
- 5th International Conference on the Dialogical Self Cambridge, UK — August 26–29, 2008
- CDELT Conference Faculty of Education, Ain Shams University, Egypt — April 2007
- 4th International Conference of the Faculty of Al-Alsun, Minia University: The Challenge Language and Culture Present to Globalization
Books-Chapters
- Deyab, Mohammad. “Mele’s Self-Deception in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth.” In Critical Insights: Macbeth. Grey House Publishing/Salem Press, New York, 2017."
- Deyab, Mohammad. “Stereotyping Muslims in John Updike’s Terrorist.” In Muslims and American Popular Culture, eds. Iraj Omidvar and Anne R. Richards, 2014.
