Helen D. Aloskan

Helen became a Jusoor Alumna upon her graduation from Doha Institute for Graduate Studies in 2020. Raised in Syria and based in the US, Helen is also highly interested in the dynamics of cultural transfer and the formation of public identities. She is particularly intrigued by self-identification patterns in subaltern groups and how these interact with otherizing discourse within unbalanced power structures.

Academic Institution

Doha Institute

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Field of Study

Comparative Literature

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Since the scholarship, in 2022, she joined Georgetown University to pursue a PhD in Literature at the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies. Helen’s research addresses concerns of a philosophical, linguistic, and literary nature; her work has so far covered questions pertaining to the evolution of philosophical concepts in the Greco-Arabic tradition, untranslatability and the fundamental difficulties facing speculative discourse, issues of literary genre and literary language between classical texts and their modern renditions, in addition to applications of German critical theory and translation theory to modern Arabic literature.

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