The Prison Narratives of Assad's Syria: Voices, Texts, Publics

Información del proyecto

SYRASP

Identificador del acuerdo de subvención: 851393

DOI

10.3030/851393

Proyecto cerrado

Fecha de la firma de la CE 26 Marzo 2020

Fecha de inicio 1 Abril 2020

Fecha de finalización 30 Septiembre 2026

Financiado con arreglo a

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Coste total

€ 1 175 239,00

Aportación de la UE

€ 1 175 239,00

Coordinado por

FORUM TRANSREGIONALE STUDIEN EV
Germany

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Publicaciones

Other (9)

Becoming Assemblies in Contemporary Syria

Autores: McManus, Anne-Marie
Publicado en: Books and Ideas, 2021
Editor: Collège de France / Pierre Rosanvallon

Special Issue: Comparative Approaches to Prison Literatures in the MENA and its Diasporas

Autores: Ed. Anne-Marie McManus and Brahim El Guabli
Publicado en: CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, Edición 25:1, 2023
Editor: Purdue University Press

Towards Syrian-led Transitional Justice

Autores: Anne-Marie McManus
Publicado en: TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, Edición 19 December 2024, 2024, ISSN 2199-2134
Editor: Forum Transregionale Studien
DOI: 10.58079/12you

The Assads’ Houses of Death (Interview with Anne-Marie McManus)

Autores: Yezid Sayigh
Publicado en: Diwan, Edición 13 January 2025, 2025
Editor: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

“The struggle has always been one” – On the Third Samira al-Khalil Award Ceremony

Autores: Anne-Marie McManus
Publicado en: TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, Edición 19 December 2025, 2025, ISSN 2199-2134
Editor: Forum Transregionale Studien
DOI: 10.58079/15e7f

Staying With Uncertainty: Syrian Intellectual Life in Germany

Autores: Anne-Marie McManus
Publicado en: TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, Edición 5 February 2026, 2026
Editor: Forum Transregionale Studien
DOI: 10.58079/15msi

The Dust Does Not Simply Settle: Temporalities of Violence, Kinetic Knowledge & Theatre Production as Archive

Autores: Yasmine Kherfi
Publicado en: archive stories, 2025
Editor: London School of Economics and Political Science

Ex-Syrian Prisoners Reunite With Music as Their Balm

Autores: Hannah El-Hitami
Publicado en: TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, Edición 24 August 2023, 2023, ISSN 2199-2134
Editor: Forum Transregionale Studien
DOI: 10.58079/ut7n

Book Review: Readings in Syrian Prison Literature: The Poetics of Human Rights. R. Shareah Taleghani (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2021).

Autores: Anne-Marie McManus NB this book review does not report on SYRASP findings and is thus excluded from the open access requirement. We will, however, endeavor to make it open access within the grant's duration.
Publicado en: International Journal of Middle East Studies, Edición 53:4, 2021, Página(s) 705-707
Editor: Cambridge
DOI: 10.1017/s0020743821000957

Conference proceedings (2)

Trauma and the 1980s in Arabic Literary Studies

Autores: Anne-Marie McManus
Publicado en: TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, Edición 9 June 2022, 2022, ISSN 2199-2134
Editor: Forum Transregionale Studien

Death is Hard Work: Insolvent Violence and the Persistence of Literature (Response by Anne-Marie McManus, Principle Investigator, ERC Project SYRASP)

Autores: McManus, Anne-Marie
Publicado en: 2021
Editor: ReadRespond

Peer reviewed articles (18)

Prison as a Living Being: ‘Assad’s Syria’ as a model for the Imprisonment State

Autores: Jaber Baker
Publicado en: CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, Edición 25, 2026, Página(s) 1-9, ISSN 1481-4374
Editor: Purdue University Press
DOI: 10.7771/1481-4374.4883

Palestinian Prisoners: Smuggling Freedom, Writing from Captivity

Autores: Basil Farraj
Publicado en: CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, Edición 25, 2026, Página(s) 1-12, ISSN 1481-4374
Editor: Purdue University Press
DOI: 10.7771/1481-4374.4877

Hold Fast the Rope of God: Space, Authority, and Speech in Muslim Prison Narratives

Autores: Basit Kareem Iqbal, Walaa Quisay
Publicado en: CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, Edición 25, 2026, Página(s) 1-10, ISSN 1481-4374
Editor: Purdue University Press
DOI: 10.7771/1481-4374.4885

Presenting Absence

Autores: Khaled Barakeh, Brigitte Herremans, Anne-Marie McManus, Guevara Namer
Publicado en: Third Text, Edición 38, 2025, Página(s) 692-708, ISSN 0952-8822
Editor: Kala Press
DOI: 10.1080/09528822.2025.2526914

On the Ruins of What’s to Come, I Stand: Time and Devastation in Syrian Cultural Production since 2011

Autores: Anne-Marie McManus
Publicado en: Critical Inquiry, Edición 48, 2023, Página(s) 45-67, ISSN 0093-1896
Editor: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.1086/715985

Al-nuzuh: Displacement as Keyword

Autores: Anne-Marie McManus
Publicado en: Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, Edición 15, 2022, Página(s) 455-466, ISSN 1873-9857
Editor: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/18739865-01504013

From Prison to the World: A Comparative Reading of Naji’s <em>Hirz Mikamkim</em> (Rotten Evidence, 2020) and Abd el-Fattah’s <em>You Have Not Yet Been Defeated</em> (2021)

Autores: Teresa Pepe
Publicado en: CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, Edición 25, 2026, Página(s) 1-12, ISSN 1481-4374
Editor: Purdue University Press
DOI: 10.7771/1481-4374.4882

Sijniyya: New Prison Songs in Sednaya

Autores: Eylaf BADER EDDIN
Publicado en: Regards, Edición 32, 2026, Página(s) 105-174, ISSN 2523-9732
Editor: Saint Joseph University of Beirut
DOI: 10.70898/regards.v0i32.1209

The Networks of Prison Narrative: Imagining Sociality and Making Narrative in Assad’s Syria

Autores: Anne-Marie McManus
Publicado en: CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, Edición 25, 2026, Página(s) 1-15, ISSN 1481-4374
Editor: Purdue University Press
DOI: 10.7771/1481-4374.4884

Terrorists, Spies, and Diplomatic Crises: The Birth of Morocco’s Multimedia Prison Literature

Autores: Brahim El Guabli
Publicado en: CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, Edición 25, 2026, Página(s) 1-17, ISSN 1481-4374
Editor: Purdue University Press
DOI: 10.7771/1481-4374.4880

The Absurdity of Liberation in Moroccan Prison Narratives

Autores: Hakima Choukri
Publicado en: CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, Edición 25, 2026, Página(s) 1-9, ISSN 1481-4374
Editor: Purdue University Press
DOI: 10.7771/1481-4374.4879

Khairy Shalaby’s Novel <em>The City of the Enslaved</em>: Egyptian Prison Literature with a Russian Twist

Autores: Sarali Gintsburg
Publicado en: CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, Edición 25, 2026, Página(s) 1-11, ISSN 1481-4374
Editor: Purdue University Press
DOI: 10.7771/1481-4374.4881

New Approaches to MENA Prison Literatures After 2011

Autores: Anne-Marie McManus
Publicado en: CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, Edición 25, 2026, Página(s) 1-8, ISSN 1481-4374
Editor: Purdue University Press
DOI: 10.7771/1481-4374.4876

Race, Time, and the Petrified Subject in Algeria

Autores: Anne-Marie McManus
Publicado en: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Edición 44, 2024, Página(s) 287-302, ISSN 1089-201X
Editor: Duke University Press
DOI: 10.1215/1089201x-11233080

Captivity, Resistance and Political Consciousness in Walid Daqqa’s Prison Literature

Autores: Ashjan Ajour
Publicado en: CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, Edición 25, 2026, Página(s) 1-6, ISSN 1481-4374
Editor: Purdue University Press
DOI: 10.7771/1481-4374.4878

Punish Yet Cannot Discipline: Two Iraqi Prison Novels

Autores: Hanan Jasim Khammas
Publicado en: CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, Edición 25, 2026, Página(s) 1-11, ISSN 1481-4374
Editor: Purdue University Press
DOI: 10.7771/1481-4374.4886

Al-Abad: On the Ongoing

Autores: Eylaf Bader Eddin
Publicado en: Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, Edición 15:4, 2022, Página(s) 367-376, ISSN 1873-9857
Editor: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/18739865-01504004

Prison Sentences: Spaces of Liberation in Arab Prison Writing

Autores: Joseph Farag
Publicado en: CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, Edición 25, 2026, Página(s) 1-17, ISSN 1481-4374
Editor: Purdue University Press
DOI: 10.7771/1481-4374.4887

Book chapters (9)

Vocal. On the MUTE installation

Autores: Khaled Barakeh and Anne-Marie McManus
Publicado en: Syrische Staatsfolter vor Gericht. Syrian State Torture on Trial, Edición Vol. 10952, 2023, Página(s) 122-135, ISBN 978-3-7425-0952-9
Editor: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung

You are Free: Siege and Resistance. A Conversation with Hani Munif and Salma Azmeh, Activists from Bidoun for Renewable Energy

Autores: McManus, Anne Marie and Salma Jreige
Publicado en: Design of Necessity: Arts of Resistance and Resilience Under Siege, 2026, Página(s) 72-91
Editor: coculture

Memory in an Era of Global Siege

Autores: McManus, Anne-Marie
Publicado en: Design of Necessity: Arts of Resistance and Resilience Under Siege, 2026
Editor: coculture

"Sarkha. Ihtijaj fanni ""samt"""

Autores: Khaled Barakeh and Anne-Marie McManus
Publicado en: Muhakama jaladi al-dawla al-suriya, Edición Vol. 10952, 2023, Página(s) 96-109, ISBN 978-3-7425-0952-9
Editor: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung

Performing Pain: Documentary Film, Advocacy, and the Families of Syria’s Disappeared

Autores: Anne-Marie McManus
Publicado en: Rebellion, Revolt, Resistance, and Political Imaginations in the Middle East and North Africa (1950s-2020s): Rising as Women, 2026
Editor: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/9789004764293

The Doll

Autores: Baker, Jaber; based on Nada Rimawy's story; Kassabi, Nour (translator)
Publicado en: Design of Necessity: Arts of Resistance and Resilience Under Siege, 2026
Editor: coculture

السجنية السورية: موسيقا ما بعد السجن

Autores: Eylaf Bader Eddin
Publicado en: عقد ٌ من الفنون أوراق ٌ بحثيّة عن اإلنتاج الفني السوري, 2024, Página(s) 17-124
Editor: 2024

Vocal || Lautstark. Über die Mute-Installation

Autores: Khaled Barakeh and Anne-Marie McManus
Publicado en: Syrische Staatsfolter vor Gericht. Syrian State Torture on Trial, Edición Vol. 10952, 2023, Página(s) 134-149, ISBN 978-3-7425-0952-9
Editor: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung

Siege in the Present Continuous Tense

Autores: McManus, Anne Marie, through conversations with Khaled Barakeh
Publicado en: Design of Necessity: Arts of Resistance and Resilience Under Siege, 2026, Página(s) 114-143
Editor: coculture

Monographic books (3)

Design of Necessity: Arts of Resistance and Resilience Under Siege

Autores: Ed. Anne-Marie McManus
Publicado en: 2026
Editor: coculture

Telling Violence. Syrian Prison Narratives, Publics and Responsibility in the 21st Century

Autores: McManus, Anne-Marie
Publicado en: 2027
Editor: transcript
DOI: 10.14361/9783839482667

Translating the Language of the Syrian Revolution (2011/12)

Autores: Eylaf Bader Eddin
Publicado en: 2024
Editor: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/9783110767698