Prof Zahia Smail Salhi
Professor of Modern Arabic Studies

Student Theses
- 2021
Investigating Soft Power in the Discourse of Translated Opinion Articles in the Saudi Press.
Author: Alsheikh, N., 1 Aug 2021Supervisor: Smail Salhi, Z. (Supervisor)
UoM administered thesis: Phd
Restor(y)ing the Postcolonial Algerian Na(rra)tion in the Fiction of Ahlam Mosteghanemi
Author: Bougherira, M., 1 Aug 2021Supervisor: McGonagle, J. (Supervisor) & Smail Salhi, Z. (Supervisor)
UoM administered thesis: Phd
- 2020
A Study of the Dramatic Structure in the Poetry of Mahmoud Darwish from 1967 to 1987
Author: Alhumam, A., 1 Aug 2020Supervisor: Mostafa, D. (Supervisor) & Smail Salhi, Z. (Supervisor)
UoM administered thesis: Phd
A Thematic Investigation of Saudi Women's Fiction, 1958-2016
Author: Almarhaby, I., 1 Aug 2020Supervisor: Valassopoulos, A. (Supervisor) & Smail Salhi, Z. (Supervisor)
UoM administered thesis: Phd
A Thematic Investigation of Saudi Women’s Fiction, 1958-2016
Author: Smail Salhi, Z. & Almarhaby, I., 28 Jan 2020UoM administered thesis: Phd
- 2019
The Effects of Translatorsâ Stylistic Choices on Translating Literary Dialectal Dialogue: Saudi and Egyptian Novels as a Case Study
Author: Al Mutairi, E., 31 Dec 2019Supervisor: Brownlie, S. (Supervisor) & Smail Salhi, Z. (Supervisor)
UoM administered thesis: Phd
Expressions of Islamic Feminisms in Algeria and Saudi Arabia: Towards Intersectional and Feminist-postcolonial Approach
Author: Al-Humaidi, A., 1 Aug 2019Supervisor: Valassopoulos, A. (Supervisor) & Smail Salhi, Z. (Supervisor)
UoM administered thesis: Phd
Islamic feminism and Cosmopolitanism
Author: Smail Salhi, Z. & Al-Humaidi, A., 2019UoM administered thesis: Phd
- 2018
The Arabic Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms: Arabic Learned Medical Discourse on Women's Bodies (9th-15th cent.)
Author: Batten, R., 31 Dec 2018Supervisor: Pormann, P. (Supervisor) & Smail Salhi, Z. (Supervisor)
UoM administered thesis: Phd
Between Convention and Westernisation: Negotiating Gender, Religion and Traditions in the Contemporary Fiction of Saudi Women: Negotiating Gender, Religion and Traditions in the Contemporary Fiction of Saudi Women
Author: Smail Salhi, Z. & Alfraih, I., 2018UoM administered thesis: Phd