Publishing a New Paper by Prof. Ghada Abdel Hafeez
The Scientific Research Council at AOU is delighted to announce that Prof. Ghada Abdel Hafeez, the FLS local dean, has published a paper titled “The Metropolis and the “Bloodless Characters": A Comparative Study of James Joyce's “A Painful Case" and Yusuf Idrīs's “Qāʿ al-Madīna" in International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation.
The paper aims at analyzing the impact of metropolis on its bloodless characters' mental health and perception of self through the unpacking of the blasé attitude which emerges in Georg Simmel's famous study “The Metropolis and Mental Life." Using Simmel's study as a tool to analyze the two short stories, the paper comments on and compares the manner in which the Irish and the Egyptian urban texts decipher the code of their modern metropoles to interpret in what ways Simmel's insights illuminate our understanding of the dilemma of the metropolitan subject.