Prof. Mohammad Shaaban Ahmad Deyab

@minia.edu.eg

English
Minia University



           

https://researchid.co/mohammad_deyab

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Arts and Humanities, Literature and Literary Theory, Language and Linguistics, Multidisciplinary

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Scopus Publications

Scopus Publications

  • Am I not a child? Palestinian child rights’ violations in Cathryn Clinton’s A stone in my hand (2002)
    Mohammad Shaaban Deyab and Ebtihal A. Elshaikh
    Informa UK Limited
    Abstract Taking the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) as a framework, this article tackles the numerous violations of children’s rights in Palestine that are reflected in Cathryn Clinton’s young-adult (YA) novel, A stone in my hand (2002). The article aims to illustrate how Clinton’s novel, like other contemporary YA fiction, explores major child rights violations in Palestine, such as arbitrary death, violent treatments, mental violence, illegal detention, torture of children, restrictions of movement, lack of health insurance, denial of good education, and poverty and unemployment. For this purpose, the article is divided into two parts. The first sheds light on the genre of YA fiction and the reasons behind its present interest in children’s rights worldwide, in general, and Palestine in particular, with examples of such literature. The second part discusses several articles of the UNCRC including, but not limited to 6, 19, 24, 27, 28, 31, 37, 38, and illustrates how Clinton’s novel elucidates the ways in which these articles are clearly violated.

  • An ecocritical reading of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's travels
    Mohammad Shaaban Ahmad Deyab
    Berghahn Books
    Numerous critics have studied Jonathan Swift's use of animals as satirical tools in Gulliver's Travels. However, none has devoted sufficient attention to Swift's forerunning “ecocritical“ concern with animal issues in relation to humans. Although the animal theme in Gulliver's Travels does involve satirical intentions, this paper aims at showing that it has more profound implications that manifest Swift's forward-looking ideas regarding the relation between humans and their natural environment, as represented in the human-animal relationship. The ethical stand and moral commitment to the natural world represented by animals, and the care for making the themes of a literary work a means to create connections between man and the natural environment around him, are basic ecocritical values that Swift stresses both explicitly and implicitly throughout the novel.

  • The subaltern can speak in Nadine Gordimer's July's People (1981)
    Mohammad Deyab
    Common Ground Research Networks