Position:

University Lecturer in Modern Arabic Language and Literature

Faculty / College Address:

Oriental Institute / St John's College

Email:

mohamed-salah.omri@orinst.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests:

Key research interests include modern and pre-modern Arabic literature; Francophone literature of the Maghreb; Comparative and world Literatures; Arab cinema; literature and history; Tunisia.  

Courses Taught:

Teaching includes the courses:

• Advanced Arabic language;
• Arabic literature and nationalism;
• Introduction to Arab literary and image culture;
• Arabic narratives of modernity;
• Arabic short story;
• Introduction to Mediterranean Studies;

as well as a course on modern perceptions of Islamic presence in the West.

Recent Publications:

• Co-editor with Co-editor with Maria Fusaro and Colin Heywood, Trade and cultural exchange in the early Modern Mediterranean: Braudel’s maritime legacy  (London: I.B. Tauris, 2010).
• Nationalism, Islam and World Literature: sites of confluence in the writings of Mahmud al-Mas’adi (London and New York: Routledge, 2006).
• Guest Editor, The Novelization of Islamic Literatures: the intersections of Western, Arabic, Persian, Urdu and Turkish Traditions a special issue of Comparative Critical Studies (4:3 (2007).
• ed. with A. Temimi, The Movement of People and Ideas between Britain and the Maghreb (Zaghouan, Tunisia, FTRSI, 2003) and Britain and the Maghreb: The State of Research and Cultural Contacts (Zaghouan, Tunisia: FTRSI, 2002).

He has also published and lectured on Modern Arabic literature, Francophone North Africa, Arab Diaspora, political cartoons, classical Arabic literature, Mediterranean culture, and cultural tourism.

Further Info:

Dr. Omri holds a BA from the University of Tunis and MA and PhD from Washington University. Before joining the University of Oxford, Dr. Omri was Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures at Washington University in St. Louis in the US. Prior to this, he was Senior Lecturer and Director of the Centre for Mediterranean Studies at the University of Exeter in Britain from 1998 to 2007.