Fajr Al Tamimi

Fajr’s thesis focuses on Palestinian women’s literature from a feminist and postcolonial perspective in order to recover their largely neglected narratives. Employing a reading which determines the defining features of Palestinian women’s literary responses to colonialist and patriarchal oppression, it charts and examines the aesthetics and thematics that reflect upon and express patterns of asserting agency and participation in the decolonisation process both in the diaspora and within the Palestinian territories. Importantly, this study reveals that the Palestinian women’s movement not only had early roots in a growing decolonising national consciousness, but that it played a dual role — one that attempted to both sustain the national liberation effort and to subvert nationalist political agendas when these impeded progress. 

Fajr holds an MA in Literary Studies – Comparative Literature and Criticism from Goldsmiths University.

Arabic literature, Postcolonial theory, Materialist feminist theory, Comparative literature.

Dr. Bashir Abu-Manneh