MLA Commons | Farah Al-Shamali | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/falshamali/activity/ Activity feed for Farah Al-Shamali. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:31:12 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 32cbe8b21fb644ba54d705f76460ece0 Farah Al-Shamali's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1922275/ Thu, 10 Jul 2025 12:38:08 -0400 0 a1c6f22d8910df8bcb0a702ccab9956c Farah Al-Shamali's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1919031/ Wed, 28 May 2025 13:09:53 -0400 0 b4e137cf95f75f708ee3a3a2a5babf34 Farah Al-Shamali changed their profile picture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1918961/ Tue, 27 May 2025 15:38:42 -0400 0 290e8cbb1b3c65af3f8a8aa6be6ddb9a Farah Al-Shamali changed their profile picture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1903481/ Thu, 31 Oct 2024 18:03:07 -0400 0 782fc3c23248e78185b218df341eb55a Farah Al-Shamali changed their profile picture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902936/ Mon, 28 Oct 2024 17:01:02 -0400 0 b1fe26719af9220721b2282ebc32896e Farah Al-Shamali changed their profile picture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902829/ Sun, 27 Oct 2024 15:21:31 -0400 0 37f877f58596c3815563a0365eac9f3d Farah Al-Shamali deposited The City of Baghdad in Art: Innovations as Reinterpretations of Destruction https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902731/ Sat, 26 Oct 2024 12:51:09 -0400 In and amongst the return to ruin ravaging the city of Baghdad, its contemporary artists lamented these violent turns unto space, taking it from utopian bliss to everyday dystopia. Their works represent a conveyance of the spatiality of pain but also a reckoning with character-altering devastation. There is further love of place even as it suffers…[Read more]

]]> 0 9aefc769586c7d4e3c5bd0689edc649c Farah Al-Shamali deposited Baghdad City in Poetry: Fabled Metropolis Valorized and Elegized https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901376/ Fri, 11 Oct 2024 07:27:20 -0400 Amongst the return to ruin ravaging Baghdad, its poets lamented the fall from utopian bliss to dystopia with their words representing a pained spatiality and reckoning with character-altering devastation. There is a love of place as it suffers human vices, one of the complexities of representation. Within these poeticisms are numerous…[Read more]

]]> 0 270c00d0ace562fef57134ae6d7ad163 Farah Al-Shamali changed their profile picture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901052/ Mon, 07 Oct 2024 20:13:47 -0400 0 7ddf9a992f122be60594b97b35486c06 Farah Al-Shamali's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900757/ Fri, 04 Oct 2024 14:13:06 -0400 0 a8b1d960862a22d08352d263724f7e8c Farah Al-Shamali changed their profile picture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900729/ Fri, 04 Oct 2024 07:34:01 -0400 0 b74ad72aa98a1384fa34d5910768012c Farah Al-Shamali deposited The City of Baghdad in Iraqi Fiction: Novelistic Depictions of a Spatiality of Ruin https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900728/ Fri, 04 Oct 2024 07:29:23 -0400 The Iraqi novel has contended with brutish forms of violence for the better part of the past century that have essentially reshaped the narrative experience unto space. Writers are confronted with the challenge of typifying a search for meaning in and amongst character-altering ruin. At the height of its maturity today, as various works convey…[Read more]

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