Trauma discourses are deeply embedded in debates on normality and pathology. This sample reading encourages students to think critically...

This is a sample reading list I have used for introducing students to the history of the concept and discourses of trauma in...

Sample Readings from Syllabus: Displacement, Refugees, and the Transnational Flow This week we will examine ongoing debates on what has...

Sample from Syllabus: Crisis of Representation: Ruptures, Subjectivities, and the Middle Eastern Condition “What is the task of...

Film has been a very powerful teaching resource for engaging students with the lived life of traumatic experiences and especially wars. I...

What would an anthropological investigation of 'trauma studies' look like? I have used this section in my teaching in order to urge...

Our December 2018 TEDx talk at London's TEDxUCLWomen DISRUPT is now online! “Dr Orkideh Behrouzan is a physician, medical anthropologist,...

In October 2018 renowned Lebanese writer and public intellectual Elias Khoury joined Nora Parr at SOAS for the English-language launch of...

A landmark issue of Middle East Topics and Arguments came out this week. Issue 11 on the topic of Trauma is a well-timed and essential...

There has been a lot of work on trauma and memory studies through literature that observes the absence of work on the field from within...

Medical Anthropologist Orkideh Behrouzan and Arabic and Comparative Literature-ist Nora Parr introduce themselves, their research, and...

Reading Violence in Comparative Literature - Arabic, Trauma, and new frames The readings below are designed for a guest lecture in a...