Orcid: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-3889-6058

Academia.edu: https://fu-berlin.academia.edu/HananNatour

LinkedIn: https://de.linkedin.com/in/hanan-natour-143452157

ERC-project „Country of Words“: https://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/en/e/palread/index.html

Dahlem Junior Host Project: https://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/dhc/programme/termine/_Termin-Archiv/Workshops/Workshop-Hanan-Natour.html

Courses for BA and MA students scheduled for 2025/26

Weekly tutorial of Arabic Grammar for BA students at the Department of Arabic, University of Göttingen, Germany (Winter Term 2015/16)

Weekly tutorial of Medieval German for BA students at the Department of German Philology, University of Göttingen, Germany (Winter Term 2013/14)

Current research includes an EXC 2020 postdoctoral research project: Competing Temporalities in Decolonial North African Fiction (2024-)

Research Interests

• Modern Tunisian literatures in Arabic and French
• Intertextuality across pre-modern and modern periods
• Temporality & historicism in decolonial contexts
• Postcolonial Maghreb
• Speculative literature
• Popular uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa
• Literature & resistance
• Palestinian literature

Presentations

"In Search of the Tunisian Political Novel in Arabic" delivered at the 58th Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) (11/2024)

"Between Maghreb and Mashriq: Resonances of Pre-Modern Concepts of the Mediterranean in Tunisian Arabic Prose of the 21st Century" delivered at the conference "A Decolonial Mediterranean? Disparities, Imaginations, Power Relations" of the Merian Center for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb in Tunis (MECAM) (11/2024)

"Narratives of Liberation, Emancipation, and Decoloniality in Tunisian Women’s Writings" delivered at the 30th International Congress of Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Vorderer Orient (DAVO) (09/2024)

"Tunis and Beyond: Power, Access, and Representation in the Tunisian Arabic Novel" delivered at the MECAM workshop "Cities in the Arab Imagination: Fiction, Reality, and Futurescapes" co-hosted by Forum Transregionale Studien Berlin (05/2024)

"The Contemporary Tunisian Arabic Novel as a Narrative Genre" at the interdisciplinary workshop "Modern Tunisian Literatures" funded by the Dahlem Junior Host Program 2022 at Freie Universität Berlin and co–hosted with Professor Mohamed–Salah Omri, University of Oxford (09/2022)

"Contemporary Tunisian Arabic Prose in Search of the Past" delivered at the 34th "Deutsche Orientalistentag" (DOT) (09/2022)

"Between Palestine and North Africa: Transnational Literary Networks During the Tunis Period (1982–1994)" delivered at the international workshop "Futures for Palestinian Literature" hosted by the ERC–Project PalREAD, Freie Universität Berlin (07/2022)

Contribution at the multilingual workshop "Writing and Translating with an Accent" delivered at the Cluster of Excellence 2020 "Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective" (05/2022)

"Salma Khadra Jayyusi as a Literary Critic" delivered at the Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association (MLA) (01/2022)

"Narratives of Space: Urban vs. Rural Space in Contemporary Tunisian Prose" delivered at "Colloque international: Les représentations paysagères dans les littératures du monde arabe et du Proche–Orient" (INALCO, CERMOM, Sorbonne) (10/2021)

"الكاتب التونسي مصطفى الكيلاني: كاتب النص وقارئ التاريخ" خلال المدرسة الصيفية الدولية الثنائية اللغة التي تنظمها الأكاديمية العربية الألمانية للباحثين الشباب (AGYA) بعنوان "بحثًا عن القارئ: مقاربات جديدة لممارسات القراءة ووظائفها وتواريخها في الأدب والفنون والإعلام والثقافة العربية" (08/2021)

"Narrating the Past: Tunisian Prose and the Uprisings of 2010/11" delivered at the Annual Conference "Knowledge, Power, and Middle Eastern Studies", British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) (07/2021)

"Translation and Transmission: A Literary Case Study of French and Arabic in Postcolonial Tunisia" delivered at the Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation Conference "Translational Spaces: Language, Literatures, Disciplines" (02/2020)

"Lesarten des Skandals in Hassouna Mosbahis Ḥikāya tūnisīya (A Tunisian Tale)" delivered at the Annual Conference "Eskalation! Skandal in der Literatur und in den Künsten", Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies (10/2019)

"Tunisian Arabic Poetry amidst the 2011 Uprisings: Munsif Al–Wahaybi and Awlad Ahmed" delivered at the Summer School "The Politics of Literature – Literature and Politics", Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies (07/2019)

"Dimensions of Nation, Memory and Identity in Contemporary Tunisian Poetry" delivered at the Annual Conference "Joining the Dots: Interdisciplinarity in Middle East Studies", British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) (06/2019)

"Identity and Alterity in Contemporary Arabic Poetry: Perspectives towards the "West" in poems of Maḥmūd Darwīš, Adūnīs and Fuʾād Rifqa" delivered at the Annual Conference "Movement and Migration in the Middle East: People and Ideas in Flux", British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) (07/2017)

"Identity and Alterity in the Poetry of Mahmoud Darwish: Challenging Boundaries in the Context of Occupation" delivered at the Oxford Graduate Conference "Crossings: Negotiating Borders and Boundaries in the Eastern Mediterranean", University of Oxford (04/2017)

Events

Conception of the international workshop "Arabic Magical Realisms" of the Cluster of Excellence "Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective" (05/2025)

Conception & Coordination of the international workshop "Anthologies Across Cultures: Textual Methods – Aesthetic Practices – Temporal Entanglements" at the Cluster of Excellence "Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective" (11/2024)

Initiator & Host of the guest lecture "War, Trauma, Memory – Magical Realisms in Lebanese Diasporic Writing" by Prof Tarek El-Ariss as part of the project "Magical Realisms and Speculative Literature" at the the Cluster of Excellence "Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective" (11/2024) 

Chair at the workshop "FINAL ISSUES: Endings in Modern Intellectual History" co-hosted by Zentrum für Literaturforschung (ZfL) and the Cluster of Excellence "Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective" (10/2024)

Conception and Host of the interdisciplinary workshop "Modern Tunisian Literatures" funded by the Dahlem Junior Host Program 2022 at Freie Universität Berlin and co–hosted by Professor Mohamed–Salah Omri, University of Oxford (09/2022)

Organising member of the international workshop "Futures for Palestinian Literature" hosted by the ERC–Project PalREAD, Freie Universität Berlin (07/2022)

Organisation of a Workshop against Discrimination at Universities, Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies with Ayla Satilmis (02–03/2022)

Panel Conception & Chair of the Panel "Narrating Upheaval in North Africa" at the Annual Conference "Knowledge, Power, and Middle Eastern Studies", British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) (07/2021)

Co–organisation of the Annual Conference "Borrowed Wor(l)ds: Aneignung jenseits des Anführungszeichens", Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies, (10/2021)

Conception & Chair of the Reading Group "Epistemologies of the ‘Global South’", Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies (Winter Term 2019/2020)

Response delivered at the Online Workshop "Framing Narratives: New Perspectives on Premodern Textual Production in Arabic", Freie Universität Berlin (11/2020)

Active Member and Host of several Sessions of the Anonym Classic Reading Group "Framing Narratives", Freie Universität Berlin (2020 – 2022)

Co–organisation of the Summer School "The Politics of Literature – Literature and Politics", Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies (07/2019)

Organisation and Moderation of Literary Readings with Yousef Qasmiyeh, Claire Trévien, Khalid Lyamlahi and about Jawdat Haydar & Host of a Multilingual Literary Salon, Oxford University World Literature Society (2017 – 2018)

Monographs

Narratives of Liberation, Emancipation, and Decoloniality in Tunisian Arabic Fiction (1987-2017), forthcoming 2025.

Edited Volumes

with Mohamed-Salah Omri (eds.): An Anthology of Modern Tunisian Literatures, forthcoming 2025.

Peer-Reviewed Articles & Book Chapters

"Resonances of Pre-Modern Concepts of the Mediterranean in Tunisian Arabic Fiction of the 21st Century", in: MECAM Blog Series, TRAFO – Blog für Transregionale Forschung, forthcoming 2025.

"The Formation of the Tunisian Novel in Arabic as Literary ´World-Making´", in: Modern Tunisian Literatures, forthcoming 2025.

with Mohamed-Salah Omri: "Introduction", in: Modern Tunisian Literatures, forthcoming 2025.

"Ḥassūna al-Muṣbāḥī: Ḥikāya tūnisiyya", in: Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL, forthcoming 2024).

with Refqa Abu-Remaileh: "A Locus-Less Literature: The Parallel Geographies of Palestinian Literature during the Tunis Period (1982-1994)", in: Journal of Arabic Literature, 2024, 428-464.

"Charlotte Pardey: Oscillating Bodies – Understanding Tunisian Society through its Novels (1956–2011)", in: Orientalistische Literaturzeitung, forthcoming 2024.

"Framing Narratives in Muṣṭafā al-Kīlānī’s Mayār (2017): A Contemporary Tunisian Perspective on Literary Framing Between Theory and Practice", in: ‘Framing Narratives’, ed. Simon Godart, Beatrice Gruendler, Johannes Stephan. Articulations (May 2024): https://articulations.temporal-communities.de.

"Language Contacts in Arabic Poetry: Patterns of Merging Languages in the Poetry of Adonis and Fuad Rifka", in: META (Middle East - Topics & Arguments) 13 (2019), 77-87.

Science Communication

Blog contribution: "Modern Tunisian Literatures: An Interdisciplinary Workshop in Berlin", Literaturwissenschaft in Berlin, 20.11.2022, URL: https://literaturwissenschaft-berlin.de/modern-tunisian-literatures/.

Press release: "Moderne tunesische Literaturen im Fokus", myscience (2022), URL: https://www.myscience.de/news/wire/moderne_tunesische_literaturen_im_fokus-2022-FUB.

Report: "Literature and Patterns of Power" (2019), URL: https://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/friedrichschlegel/aktivitaeten/summerschool/2019/index.html.

Interviews

"A Homeland in Language: Hanan Natour talks with Munsif al-Wahaybi", in: ArabLit Quarterly 1,1 (2018), 53-8.

Translations

"Muhammad Al-Saghir Awlad Ahmad: ”مصعد بإتجاه الهاوية“ and ”تونسي، دفعة واحدة، أو لا أكون", "Tunisian I am, for once and for all, or else I will not be" and "Ascending towards the Abyss", in: International Poetry Review special issue "The Arabic Poetry Issue: Revolution & Rebellion", 27-34. (forthcoming 2024)

"Munsif al-Wahaybi: Two Poems", in: ArabLit Quarterly 1,1 (2018), 59-60.