Amirah Mohiddin

Thesis title:

Hybridity, Islamic Feminism and Fantasy: Constructing a counter-memory of the stereotypical Arab female in Arabic fantasy literature

Research Area

Languages and Literature

Publications

Published short stories

'Honour' - The Bookends Review 2023 (September 2023)

'I'll Show you a Villain' - Little Book of Fairy Tales, Dancing Bear Books, 2019 (November 2019)

'The Next Dawn' - Litro Magazine 2019 (April 2019)

'Alraqs' - Post-mortem Press 2019 (February 2019)

'Alraqs' - The New Luciad 2018 (June 2018)

'Silence' - The New Luciad 2018 (June 2018)

'Ruhi' - Litro Magazine 2017 (October 2017)

Conferences

HFRN Historical Fictions Research Annual Conference 2024 - A Thousand and One Nights meets Morocco's fight for independence in a historical fantasy: Using well-known 'classic' stories to retell lesser-known historical narratives in Young Adult novels to decolonise previously established western historical narratives (February 2024)

PAMLA Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association - A Thousand and One Nights meets Morocco's fight for independence in a historical fantasy: Using well-known 'classic' stories to retell lesser-known historical narratives in Young Adult novels to decolonise previously established western historical narratives (October 2023)

M4C Research Festival - A Thousand and One Nights meets Morocco's fight for independence in a historical fantasy: Using well-known 'classic' stories to retell lesser-known historical narratives in Young Adult novels to decolonise previously established western historical narratives (October 2023)

Books in the Closet: Suppression, Censorship and the Book - In demand by fools and lowly ignoramuses': Arabic popular epics and Young Adult fiction (June 2022)

Registrar for The Hidden in Performance, Virtual and Literary Culture (September 2021)

M4C Research Festival - Reading from PhD novel The Storyteller (working title) (June 2021)

Public Engagement & Impact

June 2021 - ongoing Tutor for The Brilliant Club's 'The Scholar's Programme'

Designed university-based module inspired by my research and adapted it to KS4 level
Undertook training with The Brilliant Club
Delivered self-designed module on several placements including Moseley Secondary and Sixth Form, The Rawlett School, St Martin's Primary School, John Taylor Free School, Granville Academy, North Birmingham Academy, West Walsall E-Act Academy, Race Leys Junior School.
80% of students received a 1st or 2:1 in Spring term 2023 with 39% of those receiving a 1st.

December 2023 - Masterclass at the University of Leicester - An Excercise in Worldbuilding: A Thousand and One Nights Meets 1950s Morocco in a YA Fantasy in the MA in Creative Writing

November 2023 - Guest Lecturer at Leeds Arts University - Inspiration, Resonances and Motivations workshop in the module on 'Poetics and Process'

October 2023 - Guest Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University - Inspirations, Resonances and Motivations workshop in the course 'Writing for Children and Young Adults'

March 2023 - Masterclass with the University of Leicester - Claiming Our Unconscious and Re-remembering Our Stolen History, with Amirah Mohiddin

MA dissertation novel The Fallen Warriors currently submitted to editors at Harper Collins, Simon & Schuster, Bloomsbury, Penguin Random House, Macmillan, and Hachette by Agent Leah Pierre from Ladderbird Agency.

Other Research Interests

Decolonising Creative Writing
Arabic epic literature
Female identity
19th century fallen woman and the angel
Oral storytelling traditions
Novel form
Fantasy literature
Contemporary literature- from children's fiction, YA, to adult fiction

Memberships

Angela Carter

Feminist studies association

NAWE

PAMLA - Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association

Prizes

Bath Children's Novel Award - Longlisted