Najah Azzouzi, Ph.D.
Department
Biography
Professor Najah Azzouzi teaches at CMC's Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. She teaches intermediate Arabic and upper-division courses in Arabic literature, culture, and thought in both Arabic and in translation. Her pedagogical approach is interdisciplinary bringing in language, history, and culture. Azzouzi works on 19th and early-20th-century Arabic and French literatures, particularly on the effect of French taste on elite and bourgeois Egyptian subjectivity as manifested in Arabic novels and Francophone magazines.
Teaching Interests
Arabic language, literature, and thought.
French language and Francophone literatures and cultures
19th and early-20th-century Arabic and French literatures
Research Interests
19th and early-20th-century Arabic and French literatures.
The effect of French taste on elite and bourgeois Arab subjectivity.
Arab Nahda (Renaissance) and middle-class identity in the Middle-East.
European coloniality , material culture, and modernity in 19th and early-20th-century Egypt.
Early-20th-century Arabic and French women's periodicals.