Dr Rita Sakr

About

Rita Sakr received her PhD from the University of Nottingham in 2009 and held a BA/ESRC/AHRC Visiting Scholarship at the University of Kent in 2010, then a Visiting Lectureship at University College Dublin in 2011-12. She has published on Middle-Eastern studies, war and peacekeeping in Lebanon, the Arab uprisings, literatures and geographies of conflict, human rights in literature, as well as James Joyce. She is the author of Monumental Space in the Post-Imperial Novel: An Interdisciplinary Study (Continuum, 2011; re-issued in paperback, 2013) and Anticipating the 2011 Arab Uprisings: Revolutionary Literatures and Political Geographies (Palgrave (Pivot), 2013). With Caroline Rooney, she co-edited The Ethics of Representation in Literature, Art and Journalism: Transnational Responses to the Siege of Beirut (Routledge, 2013) and in Sakr’s Arabic translation (Dar al Adab, forthcoming).