Personal Information

• Name: FADHEL AHMED HUSSEIN AL QAAOD
• Date of Birth: 1973
• Nationality: Yemeni
• Address: Bayt Bous – Sana’a
• University Professor – Sana’a University – College of Education and Applied Sciences – Khawlan.
• Mobile Phone Number: 00967772776630
• Email: Dralqaood@yahoo.com

Academic Degree:

• Ph.D. in Classical Literature and Criticism with First-Class Honors – Ain Shams University – Arab Republic of Egypt – 2007.
• Associate Professor in Literature and Criticism

Teaching and Academic Activities:

• Worked as a teacher in primary and secondary education from 1991 to 1997 in the following governorates: (Sana’a – Amanah – Ibb).
• Taught Arabic language with its various curricula at the following universities: (Sana’a – Amran – Yemeni University).
• Assistant Professor of Islamic Literature and Criticism at Sana’a University (currently submitted research for promotion to Associate Professor).
• Proficient in teaching methods of analyzing and interpreting texts, particularly literary ones, using linguistic frameworks that view texts as purely linguistic structures.
• Experienced in teaching Arabic language methods for university students and others.
• Former representative of faculty members in the college council.
• Vice President of the union at the college’s affiliated union.

Publications:

• He has numerous published research papers, articles, and short stories in various journals and newspapers, particularly in Al-Ghayman Literary Magazine, the cultural supplement of Al-Thawra Newspaper, Al-Jumhuriya Newspaper, Al-Sharq Qatari Newspaper, and Al-Muthaqaf Al-Arabi Magazine.

The most Prominent Articles, Readings, Creative Works, and Interviews:

1. Culture Between the Sacred and the Profane: A Reflection on Yemen’s Current Reality – Thawra Cultural Supplement, 2011.
2. The Poetics of Ruins and Tribe: A Critical Reading of an Ancient Text – Ghiman Journal, Issue 11, 2010.
3. The Bride of Creativity and Civilization: Coverage and Review of the Yemen-India Cultural Exchange Conference, EFLU, Hyderabad, India – Thawra Cultural Supplement, 2010..
4. Dialogue with Iraqi Poet and Critic Rashid Yassin – Ghiman Literary Journal, 2010.
5. A Preliminary Reading of Rejected Literature (Shu’ubi Literature) – Republic Cultural Newspaper, 2008.
6. The Poetics of Nostalgia: A Critical Reading of an Ancient Text – Thawra Cultural Supplement, 2008.
7. The Hymn of the Soul: A Short Story – Thawra Cultural Supplement, 2008.
8. Our Universities… Absent Visions and Hollow Rhetoric – Republic Newspaper, 2013.
9. Dialogue: Concepts and Semantic Dimensions: An Open Reading on the Horizons of the National Dialogue – Shu’un Al-Asr Journal, 2013

Researches:

1. Quranic Intertextuality in the Poetry of the Khawarij
2. Al-Hasan Al-Basri’s Letter to Caliph Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz Titled “The Just Imam”: A Textual Pragmatic Reading
3. The Poetics of Hunger: A Textual Reading of Al-Farazdaq’s Poem

Books:

He has two published books:

• Self-flagellation and Other in Umayyad Poetry (A Textual Study) – Ghaidaa Publishing House, Jordan.
• The Language of Poetic Discourse in the Poetry of Jamil Buthaina (A Stylistic and Structural Study) – Ghaidaa Publishing House, Jordan.

He also has a forthcoming book titled:

• Reading Poetic and Narrative Discourse in Yemen Today: Its Levels and Mechanisms (currently in press)

Academic Contributions:

• Collaborated with a group of esteemed professors in compiling two educational dictionaries for students in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries under the supervision of the Center for Educational Research and Development
• Collaborated with a group of academics and specialists in preparing the general framework for the project: The Great Yemeni Encyclopedia, under the supervision of the Ministry of Higher Education and the Yemeni Center for Historical Studies and Future Strategies.

Conferences and Seminars:

Participated in numerous conferences and seminars both within Yemen and internationally. Notable contributions include:

• Being invited to the Cairo International Poetry Forum (2nd Edition), themed “The Current Poetry Landscape”, organized by the Supreme Council of Culture, March 2009.
• Attending the Cultural Exchange Conference between Yemen and India, organized by the University of English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad, India, 2010.
• Participating in the Conference on Teaching Arabic to Non-Native Speakers in Doha, Qatar, organized by the Faculty of Languages.
• Presented at the seminar “Lexicographical and General Dictionary Development in Yemen”, held at the Faculty of Arts, Sana’a University, in collaboration with Dr. Hamid Al-Awadhi and Dr. Hussein Al-Zarai.

Membership:

• Member of the Yemeni Literary Criticism Association.

·         Member of the Language and Literature Committee for the Greater Yemen Encyclopedia Project.

Awards and Honors:

• Won first prize in the short story competition organized by the Capital Secretariat’s Office of Education, Sana’a (1989–1990).
• Awarded first prize in a short story competition organized by the Yemeni Embassy in Cairo.
• Honored multiple times by the Department of Arabic Language as both a student and professor.
• Recognized by the university leadership for excellence in a specialized higher education training program.
• Homored by Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Maqaleh and Dr. Hatim Al-Sakr, who wrote forewords for his published books- Ghaida Publishing House – Jordan