Walid El Khachab
Associate Professor, York University
Communications and Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Ottawa
Office: ARTS 136
Telephone: 613-562-5800, ext. 7023
E-mail: welkhach@uOttawa.ca
University degree
PhD, University of Montreal, 2003.
Fields of interest
- Intermediality
- Cinema and History
- Cinema and Mysticism
- Middle Eastern Cinemas
- Arabic Studies
Selected publications
Books and Monographs
2011 – (co-editor) The Figure of the Prophet and Prophetic Figures. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (in process)
Chapters in Books
2010 – “Arab Video Music: Imagined Territories and The Liberation of Desire (or: Sex Lies in Video (Clip))” in Michael Frishkopf (ed) Music and Media in the Arab World, Cairo : American University in Cairo Press.
2009 – “The Other Europe: Veils, (In-)Visibility and Strangers in Western Culture”. In Savas Arslan, Volkan Aytar, Defne Karaosmanoglu & Suheyla Schroeder (eds) Media, Culture and Identity in Europe. Istanbul: Bahceshehir University Press. pp.87-94.
2009 – « Le mélodrame dans la modernité cinématographique: le Fatum laïcisé chez De Mil et Branagh » in Gharaa Mehana (ed), Hommage à Amina Rachid. Cairo : Dar Al Ayn.
2008 – « Ironies urbaines: rire entre ville moderne et médina cinématographiques en Afrique du nord », in Christiane Ndiyaye (ed) Rira bien : Humour et ironie dans les littératures et le cinéma de l’Afrique francophone, Montreal : Editions mémoire de l’encrier, pp. 147-163.
Articles (Refereed)
2009 – “La terreur en spectacle : 11.09.01” in CinémAction. Amos Gitai entre terre et exil. Paris. Corlet Publications, no 131. pp.47-49.
2008 – « Le Road Movie interculturel comme voyage mystique : Le voyage de Fernando Solanas », CinéMas, Université de Montréal, pp.123-142.
2006 – “Face of the Human and Surface of The World: Reflections on Cinematic Pantheism”, in Intermedialities, University of Montreal, No. 8, Fall 2006, pp.121-134.
2006 – « Les Misérables chantent en arabe : Hugo dans le cinéma égyptien » in CinémAction. Le Victor Hugo des cinéastes », Paris, Corlet, No. 119, pp.108-122.
2006 – “Travelling East: Spiritual Geography and the Writing of Sufi Journey” (in Arabic: Al Raheel Sharqan: Al Joografia Al Rooheya Wa Kitabat Al Rehla Al Sufia) in “Wanderlust: Travel Literature of Egypt and the Middle East”, Alif. Journal of Comparative Poetics, No.26, American University in Cairo Press, pp.179-192. (With English abstract).
2005 – “Les exilés dans l’Amérique cinématographique. Mémoire, et intermédialité dans America America de Kazan” in CinéMas. Université de Montréal. Winter.
2000 – “Un cinéma soufi? Islam, Ombres, Modernité”, in CinéMas, Université de Montréal, Fall 2000, pp.133-149.
2000 – “Camera Arabica. Cinéma des Premiers Temps et Modernité en Égypte”, in Sociétés et Représentations (edited by André Gaudreault and François Jost), Paris I, Credhess, Publications de la Sorbonne, No. 9, April 2000, pp.217-226.
Conference Presentations
Suez au cinéma : guerre et témoignage par procuration. UQAM, Montreal, November 2010.
Mapping National Skin: Rugs, Dresses and Palestine. FSAC Conference. Concordia University. Montreal. June. 2010
The Epistemic Veil in Modern Art: Salome by Eman Haram. The Arts and the Sacred Conference. Musée de l’art contemporain. Place des Arts. Montreal. April 2010
Textile Palestine. The Politics of Fabric and the Imagined National Landscape. FSAC (Film Studies Association of Canada). Annual Meeting. Ottawa. Carleton University. May 2009.
The Veils of Otherness: Cinema and the Contrapuntal Salome. Counterpoints. International Conference on the Edward Said Legacy. Ottawa. University of Ottawa, October 2008.
Cinematic Hijra and Nation-Screen: The Paradox of The Prophet’s Migrant Polity and Spoken Word Territorialized in the State and in Film.American Comparative Literature Association. Long Beach. April 2008.
The Veil Architecture: Fabric as Marker and Organizer of Cinematic Space. Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Philadelphia. March 2008.
Esthétique du voile et mentalité textile, Galerie MEKIC, Montreal, February 2009.
The Veil as National Allegory: Cinema, TV and the Epistemological Trope of Fabric, Languages and Literatures Colloquia, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University, January 2008.
Palestinian Women on Celluloid and Paper. Confession, Testimony and the Production of Modern Subjectivity (in Arabic), Séminaire du department des lettres françaises, Cairo University, December 2007.
Curator of Exhibitions
2008 – October-November, curator of the Exhibition: Désinstallations du voile, Maison de la culture Côte des Neiges, Montreal, featuring paintings, photography, installations by the artists of the Collective: Mille et Un Plateaux: Eman Haram, Jaber Lutfi, May Telmissany.
