Dr. Maha Qahtan Sulaiman is Associate Professor
Dr. Maha Qahtan Sulaiman holds PhD in English Literture from University Malaya, Malaysia.
Dr. Maha Qahtan Sulaiman has been Head of the department May 2020 – April 2022 Graduate Program Coordinator July 2015 – January 2018.
Member of the Scientific committee 2015-2018 Member of the Scientific committee2020-2022
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Qahtan, Maha. “Binary Oppositions in Robert Frost’s Poetry”, Al-Ustath 78 (2008): 823-882.
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Qahtan, Maha. “The Death of Beauty in Edgar Allan Poe's Poetry”. Al-Mustansiriya Journal of Arts 54 (2011): 1-25.
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Sulaiman, Maha Qahtan. “Ted Hughes’s Shamanic Journey into the Heart of the River”. Sarjana 29.2 (2014): 32-43.
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Sulaiman, M. Q. “Human Versus Nature in Ted Hughes’s Sense of Place: Remains of Elmet and Moortown Diary”. Pertanika. 23.3 (Sept. 2015): 655-663. Scopus Author Identifier: 56797697000
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Sulaiman, Maha Qahtan. “Retelling the Irish Troubles through a Female Figure: The Irish Female Presence in Seamus Heaney’s Poetry”. ZANCO Journal of Salahaddin. 20.4 (2016):161-169.
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Sulaiman, Maha Qahtan. “The City May be Just, / and Humankind be Kind”: Departures and Homecomings in Derek Walcott’s Poetry. AL-USTATH. 3 (2018): 115-122.
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Sulaiman, Maha Qahtan. “Woman’s Self-Realisation in the Poetry of Thomas Hardy”. English Language and Literature Studies. 8.4 (2018): 58-65.
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Sulaiman, Maha Qahtan. “‘Falshood is Worse than Hate’: Women’s Inconstancy in John Donne’s Poetry”. International Journal of Research in Social Sciences and Humanities. 9.1 (2019): 266-272.
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Sulaiman, Maha Qahtan. “You See the Corner of Her Eyes / Twisted like a Crooked Pin”: The Image of Woman in T. S. Eliot’s Early Poetry. International Journal of Research in Social Sciences and Humanities. 10.1 (2020): 55-62.
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Sulaiman, Maha Qahtan. “‘Grace to the Mother – For the Garden – Where all love ends’: The Image of Woman in T. S. Eliot’s Later Poetry”. Journal of Arts, Literature, Humanities and Social Sciences. 52 (May 2020): 311-325.
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Sulaiman, Maha Qahtan “Insanity and Murder in Robert Browning’ and Robert Lowell’s Dramatic Monologues”. Arab World English Journal for Translation & Literary Studies. 5.1 (February 2021): 201-209.
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Sulaiman, Maha Qahtan. “Landscapes of Worship and of Death: The Imprint of Islam on the Cultural Landscape of Afghanistan in The Kite Runner”. Journal of College of Education 47.1 (May 2022): 373-379.
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Sulaiman, Maha Qahtan. “The Image of the Artist in Orhan Pamuk’s My Name is Red and Irving Stone’s The Agony and Ecstasy”. Arab World English Journal for Translation & Literary Studies. 6.4 (October 2022): 89-101.
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Sulaiman, Maha Qahtan. “Retrieval of Traumatic Memories in James Joyce’s ‘The Dead’ and Haruki Murakami’s ‘Drive My Car’”. College of Education for Women Journal. 23.5 (December 2023): 286-301.
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Sulaiman, Maha Qahtan. “A Deconstructive Reading of Naguib Mahfouz’s Akhenaten: Dweller in Truth”. Iklil Journal. 4.4 (December 2023): 973-986.
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Sulaiman, Maha Qahtan. “Cultural Violence in Saki’s ‘The Toys of Peace’ and Ahmed Al-Malik’s ‘The Tank’”. URUK FOR HUMANITIES. 16.4 (December 2023): 2606-2612.
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Ali, Asawer Mohammed, and Sulaiman, Maha Qahtan. “The Representation of Woman in Egypt's Turbulent Sixties: A Reading of Naguib Mahfouz's Miramar”. Journal of Education College for Women. 24.5 (March 2024): 146-156
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Ali, Asawer Mohammed, and Sulaiman, Maha Qahtan. “A Study of Woman’s Struggle for Independence in Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance”. Surra Man Ra'a. 19.78 (2024): 3-18.
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Kadhim, Fatima Essam, and Sulaiman, Maha Qahtan. “Ethical Conduct of Billeting Soldiers in The Nightingale by Kristin Hanna”. Journal of College of Education. 57.2 (2024): 549-564.
English Literature
- MA program: Literary Theory, Romantic Poetry, Victorian Novel
- BA Program: Romantic and Victorian Poetry, Introduction to Literature, Shakesperian Drama, Victorian Novel
- أساور محمد علي A Social Feminist Reading of Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance and Naguib Mahfouz’s Miramar
- فاطمة عصام كاظم سلمان The Ethics of War in Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See and Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale: A Study of Jus in Bello
- زهراء جلال كاظم The Right and the Good in Ann Cleeves’ Raven Black and Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plough Over the Bones of the Dead
- عايدة ثامر سلوم Literary Craft and Psychopolitical Discourse: A Study in Selected Metamodernist Women-Poets
- طيبة ظافر عبد Art as Experience in Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch and Priscilla Morris’s Black Butterfies
The study aims at fathoming Robert Browning’ and Robert Lowell’s intentions of choosing the dramatic monologue as a means of exploring human psyche. Significantly, the themes of insanity and murder are not ideal from an esthetic perspective, but for Browning and Lowell it provides the key to probe into human character and fundamental motives. This study examines Browning’ and Lowell’s dramatic monologues that address crime and the psyche of abnormal men. Browning’ and Lowell’s poetry in this regard unravels complicated human motivations and delineates morbid psychologies. Their monologues probe deep down into the mind-sets of their characters and dissect their souls to the readers. The main character of each of Browning
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