ALTNOOR Publishes (Critical Inflections) by Sanaa Shalan (Bint Naima)
May 5, 2025, 2:59 pm

ALTNOOR Publishes (Critical Inflections) by Sanaa Shalan (Bint Naima)

التّنّور يصدر كتاب "Critical Inflections" لسناء الشعلان (بنت نعيمة)

Tampere, Finland: As part of the critical and academic project in Arabic and English launched by the Tannour Cultural Center, headed by Iraqi writer Abbas Dakhel Hassan, the critical book (Critical Inflections) by academic writer Pro. Sanaa Shalan (Bint Naima) has been published.

The book, 220 pages long, contains six specialized critical chapters, including separate studies on the contemporary Arab and Jordanian novel, the Jordanian and Arab short story, and the literature of sentimental letters. It also includes comparative research between Arabic literary works (novels, short stories, and sentimental letters) by contemporary Arab writers, both male and female, and contemporary and medieval international literary works. This is the ninth critical book by Prof.

Sanaa Shaalan (Bint Naima), in addition to dozens of contributions with critical chapters in collective critical books by Jordanian and Arab researchers, hundreds of specialized critical studies published in international research journals, various critical studies and articles, and participation in numerous international critical projects. She has also received awards for literary criticism.

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