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

Informazioni relative al progetto

SYRASP

ID dell’accordo di sovvenzione: 851393

DOI

10.3030/851393

Progetto chiuso

Data della firma CE 26 Marzo 2020

Data di avvio 1 Aprile 2020

Data di completamento 30 Settembre 2026

Finanziato da

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Costo totale

€ 1 175 239,00

Contributo UE

€ 1 175 239,00

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FORUM TRANSREGIONALE STUDIEN EV
Germany

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Pubblicazioni

Other (9)

Becoming Assemblies in Contemporary Syria

Autori: McManus, Anne-Marie
Pubblicato in: Books and Ideas, 2021
Editore: Collège de France / Pierre Rosanvallon

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

Autori: Ed. Anne-Marie McManus and Brahim El Guabli
Pubblicato in: CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, Numero 25:1, 2023
Editore: Purdue University Press

Towards Syrian-led Transitional Justice

Autori: Anne-Marie McManus
Pubblicato in: TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, Numero 19 December 2024, 2024, ISSN 2199-2134
Editore: Forum Transregionale Studien
DOI: 10.58079/12you

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

Autori: Yezid Sayigh
Pubblicato in: Diwan, Numero 13 January 2025, 2025
Editore: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

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

Autori: Anne-Marie McManus
Pubblicato in: TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, Numero 19 December 2025, 2025, ISSN 2199-2134
Editore: Forum Transregionale Studien
DOI: 10.58079/15e7f

Staying With Uncertainty: Syrian Intellectual Life in Germany

Autori: Anne-Marie McManus
Pubblicato in: TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, Numero 5 February 2026, 2026
Editore: Forum Transregionale Studien
DOI: 10.58079/15msi

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

Autori: Yasmine Kherfi
Pubblicato in: archive stories, 2025
Editore: London School of Economics and Political Science

Ex-Syrian Prisoners Reunite With Music as Their Balm

Autori: Hannah El-Hitami
Pubblicato in: TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, Numero 24 August 2023, 2023, ISSN 2199-2134
Editore: 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).

Autori: 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.
Pubblicato in: International Journal of Middle East Studies, Numero 53:4, 2021, Pagina/e 705-707
Editore: Cambridge
DOI: 10.1017/s0020743821000957

Conference proceedings (2)

Trauma and the 1980s in Arabic Literary Studies

Autori: Anne-Marie McManus
Pubblicato in: TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, Numero 9 June 2022, 2022, ISSN 2199-2134
Editore: Forum Transregionale Studien

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

Autori: McManus, Anne-Marie
Pubblicato in: 2021
Editore: ReadRespond

Peer reviewed articles (18)

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

Autori: Jaber Baker
Pubblicato in: CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, Numero 25, 2026, Pagina/e 1-9, ISSN 1481-4374
Editore: Purdue University Press
DOI: 10.7771/1481-4374.4883

Palestinian Prisoners: Smuggling Freedom, Writing from Captivity

Autori: Basil Farraj
Pubblicato in: CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, Numero 25, 2026, Pagina/e 1-12, ISSN 1481-4374
Editore: Purdue University Press
DOI: 10.7771/1481-4374.4877

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

Autori: Basit Kareem Iqbal, Walaa Quisay
Pubblicato in: CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, Numero 25, 2026, Pagina/e 1-10, ISSN 1481-4374
Editore: Purdue University Press
DOI: 10.7771/1481-4374.4885

Presenting Absence

Autori: Khaled Barakeh, Brigitte Herremans, Anne-Marie McManus, Guevara Namer
Pubblicato in: Third Text, Numero 38, 2025, Pagina/e 692-708, ISSN 0952-8822
Editore: 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

Autori: Anne-Marie McManus
Pubblicato in: Critical Inquiry, Numero 48, 2023, Pagina/e 45-67, ISSN 0093-1896
Editore: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.1086/715985

Al-nuzuh: Displacement as Keyword

Autori: Anne-Marie McManus
Pubblicato in: Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, Numero 15, 2022, Pagina/e 455-466, ISSN 1873-9857
Editore: 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)

Autori: Teresa Pepe
Pubblicato in: CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, Numero 25, 2026, Pagina/e 1-12, ISSN 1481-4374
Editore: Purdue University Press
DOI: 10.7771/1481-4374.4882

Sijniyya: New Prison Songs in Sednaya

Autori: Eylaf BADER EDDIN
Pubblicato in: Regards, Numero 32, 2026, Pagina/e 105-174, ISSN 2523-9732
Editore: 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

Autori: Anne-Marie McManus
Pubblicato in: CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, Numero 25, 2026, Pagina/e 1-15, ISSN 1481-4374
Editore: Purdue University Press
DOI: 10.7771/1481-4374.4884

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

Autori: Brahim El Guabli
Pubblicato in: CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, Numero 25, 2026, Pagina/e 1-17, ISSN 1481-4374
Editore: Purdue University Press
DOI: 10.7771/1481-4374.4880

The Absurdity of Liberation in Moroccan Prison Narratives

Autori: Hakima Choukri
Pubblicato in: CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, Numero 25, 2026, Pagina/e 1-9, ISSN 1481-4374
Editore: 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

Autori: Sarali Gintsburg
Pubblicato in: CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, Numero 25, 2026, Pagina/e 1-11, ISSN 1481-4374
Editore: Purdue University Press
DOI: 10.7771/1481-4374.4881

New Approaches to MENA Prison Literatures After 2011

Autori: Anne-Marie McManus
Pubblicato in: CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, Numero 25, 2026, Pagina/e 1-8, ISSN 1481-4374
Editore: Purdue University Press
DOI: 10.7771/1481-4374.4876

Race, Time, and the Petrified Subject in Algeria

Autori: Anne-Marie McManus
Pubblicato in: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Numero 44, 2024, Pagina/e 287-302, ISSN 1089-201X
Editore: Duke University Press
DOI: 10.1215/1089201x-11233080

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

Autori: Ashjan Ajour
Pubblicato in: CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, Numero 25, 2026, Pagina/e 1-6, ISSN 1481-4374
Editore: Purdue University Press
DOI: 10.7771/1481-4374.4878

Punish Yet Cannot Discipline: Two Iraqi Prison Novels

Autori: Hanan Jasim Khammas
Pubblicato in: CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, Numero 25, 2026, Pagina/e 1-11, ISSN 1481-4374
Editore: Purdue University Press
DOI: 10.7771/1481-4374.4886

Al-Abad: On the Ongoing

Autori: Eylaf Bader Eddin
Pubblicato in: Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, Numero 15:4, 2022, Pagina/e 367-376, ISSN 1873-9857
Editore: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/18739865-01504004

Prison Sentences: Spaces of Liberation in Arab Prison Writing

Autori: Joseph Farag
Pubblicato in: CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, Numero 25, 2026, Pagina/e 1-17, ISSN 1481-4374
Editore: Purdue University Press
DOI: 10.7771/1481-4374.4887

Book chapters (9)

Vocal. On the MUTE installation

Autori: Khaled Barakeh and Anne-Marie McManus
Pubblicato in: Syrische Staatsfolter vor Gericht. Syrian State Torture on Trial, Numero Vol. 10952, 2023, Pagina/e 122-135, ISBN 978-3-7425-0952-9
Editore: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung

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

Autori: McManus, Anne Marie and Salma Jreige
Pubblicato in: Design of Necessity: Arts of Resistance and Resilience Under Siege, 2026, Pagina/e 72-91
Editore: coculture

Memory in an Era of Global Siege

Autori: McManus, Anne-Marie
Pubblicato in: Design of Necessity: Arts of Resistance and Resilience Under Siege, 2026
Editore: coculture

"Sarkha. Ihtijaj fanni ""samt"""

Autori: Khaled Barakeh and Anne-Marie McManus
Pubblicato in: Muhakama jaladi al-dawla al-suriya, Numero Vol. 10952, 2023, Pagina/e 96-109, ISBN 978-3-7425-0952-9
Editore: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung

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

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

The Doll

Autori: Baker, Jaber; based on Nada Rimawy's story; Kassabi, Nour (translator)
Pubblicato in: Design of Necessity: Arts of Resistance and Resilience Under Siege, 2026
Editore: coculture

السجنية السورية: موسيقا ما بعد السجن

Autori: Eylaf Bader Eddin
Pubblicato in: عقد ٌ من الفنون أوراق ٌ بحثيّة عن اإلنتاج الفني السوري, 2024, Pagina/e 17-124
Editore: 2024

Vocal || Lautstark. Über die Mute-Installation

Autori: Khaled Barakeh and Anne-Marie McManus
Pubblicato in: Syrische Staatsfolter vor Gericht. Syrian State Torture on Trial, Numero Vol. 10952, 2023, Pagina/e 134-149, ISBN 978-3-7425-0952-9
Editore: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung

Siege in the Present Continuous Tense

Autori: McManus, Anne Marie, through conversations with Khaled Barakeh
Pubblicato in: Design of Necessity: Arts of Resistance and Resilience Under Siege, 2026, Pagina/e 114-143
Editore: coculture

Monographic books (3)

Design of Necessity: Arts of Resistance and Resilience Under Siege

Autori: Ed. Anne-Marie McManus
Pubblicato in: 2026
Editore: coculture

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

Autori: McManus, Anne-Marie
Pubblicato in: 2027
Editore: transcript
DOI: 10.14361/9783839482667

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

Autori: Eylaf Bader Eddin
Pubblicato in: 2024
Editore: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/9783110767698