Mortada Haidar
- About me
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Mortada Haidar is a PhD candidate at the Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) and a member of the International PhD Program (IPP) at Justus Liebig University, Giessen. Their doctoral project “Whose War is It? Memory Cultures of the Lebanese Civil War in Lebanese Anglophone Literature ” focuses on Lebanese anglophone writers, such as Rabih Alameddine, Rawi Hage, Naji Bakhti, and Jean Said Makdisi, and used their writings to reflect on their identity and memorialize the events of the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990), in counter-cultural ways. They have a background in literary studies, with their MA thesis focusing on British national identity post-Brexit. Their research interests include Lebanese anglophone literature, memory studies, national and cultural identity, and migration studies. They are the holder of the JLU Postgraduate Scholarship and co-speaker for Research Area 1: Cultural Memory Studies.
Dissertation working title: Whose War is It? Memory Cultures of the Lebanese Civil War in Lebanese Anglophone Literature
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1070-8868
- Contact
- Publications
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- Haidar, Mortada. 2024. “Imagined Migrations, Transmitted Knowledges”. KULT_online, no. 69 (April). https://journals.ub.uni-giessen.de/kult-online/article/view/1428.
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Haidar, Mortada. 2024 "Hues of Protest: Graffiti and Street Art in Beirut." KULT_online 70.
- Projects
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'Dynamics of Memory Across Media', Roundtable as part of the GCSC Keynote Lecture Series, 17 June 2024, co-organiser/moderator with members of the Research Area 1: Cultural Memory Studies and Research Area 5: Media and Mediality
"Nothing to Remember? Politics, Practices, and Agents of Commemorating Peace" January 22-23 2025, co-organiser/moderator with members of the Research Area 1: Cultural Memory Studies
- Research Interests
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- Lebanese Anglophone Literature
- Literary Studies
- Memory Studies
- Cultural and National Identities
- Middle Eastern Studies
- Teaching
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- Co-taught the master’s level university course “Family Dynamics in the British Migration Novel” alongside Dr. Corinna Assmann (Uni Heidelberg). My sessions were concerned with American and British diasporic novels, namely Rabih Alameddine’s I, the Divine and Naji Bakhti’s Between Beirut and the Moon.
- Memberships
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Co-speaker of Research Area 1: Cultural Memory Studies
Member of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES)
Graduate Student Committee (GSC) at the GCSC (2024/2025)