Academic & Teaching staff

Dr El Mustapha Lahlali

Director of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies

Dr El Mustapha Lahlali

+44(0)113 343 3427

Discourse analysis, classroom interaction and pedagogy; Arabic grammar and text interpretation; English and Arabic stylistics; Critical Discourse Analysis and media texts; Arab Media & Society; Media discourse; Media and politics; Arabic linguistics: Discourse analysis, Critical discourse Analysis, Semantics; Education in the Arab world.

Research Interests

  • Classroom discourse, interaction and pedagogy.
  • Travel literature
  • English and Arabic stylistics.
  • Teaching & Learning Arabic as a foreign language
  • Translation, translators and Ideology
  • Arab Media & Society; Media Discourse
  • Arabic linguistics: Discourse analysis, Critical discourse Analysis.
  • Education in the Arab world

Taught Courses 

Postgraduate (MA):

  • ARAB 5009 - Modern Arab Media.

Undergraduate (BA):

  1. ARAB 2880 - Contemporary Arabic Media
  2. ARAB 3020 - Advanced Skills: Textual & Social Analysis of Advanced Texts
  3. ARAB 3888 - Advanced Media Arabic: Translation Skills in Text Typology 

Publications

Books:

  1. Lahlali, M. (2007). Critical Discourse Analysis and Classroom Discursive Practices. Lincom Europa.
  2. Lahlali, M. (2008). Advanced Media Arabic. Publisher: Edinburgh University Press.
  3. Lahlali, M. (2009). How to Write in Arabic. Publisher: Edinburgh University Press.
  4. Lahlali, M., Al-Dihan, S., and Abu Hatab, W. (2010). Ibn al-Tayyib: the Forgotten Journey of an 18 Century Arab Traveller. London: I.B. Tauris.
  5. Lahlali, M. (2011). Contemporary Arab Broadcast Media. Publisher: Edinburgh University Press.
  6. Lahlali, M., and Abu Hatab, W. (2012). Advanced Arabic- English Translation: A Practical Guide. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh (Forthcoming).

Articles/chapters:

Lahlali. M (2009) 'Alternative Arab Media and the Right to Communicate in the Middle East'. In Aliaa Dakroury; Mahmoud Eid; Yahya R. Kamalipour (eds.), The Right to communicate: Historical Hopes, Global Debates and Future Premises. Publisher: Kendall Hunt.

Lahlali, M. (2011). 'The Arab Spring and the discourse of desperation: shifting from an authoritarian discourse into a 'democratic' one'. Journal of Arab Media and Society. Issue 13. 

Lahlali, M. (2011). 'Arab Media discourse: Breaking Taboos'. International journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies,  No: 13/14, 2011.

Krachzschmar, H., and Lahlali, M.  (2011). “e-Government in Kuwait: Challenges and Opportunities” in LSE Kuwait Governance Programme, volume 8.

Lahlali, M. (2012). 'Repetition and Ideology in Naserallah's Political Speeches'.  Journal of Arab Media and Society. Issue 15.    

Lahlali, M., and Agius, D. (2012). 'Writing Private Letters: Breaking with Islamic and Literary Arabic Traditions'. In Agius et al, (2012). Slaves - Land and Sea: The Case of Giorgio Scala - 1598 (Forthcoming)

 Zammit, M., Lahlali, M., and Agius, D. (2012). 'The Letters of the Moorish Slaves in Sixteenth-Century Malta: Transcription, translation and a linguistic analysis'. In Agius et al, (2012) in The Case of Giorgio Scala and the Letters of Muslim Galley Slaves - 1598 (Forthcoming)

Training & Supervision of Research students:

  1. Mohamed Al-Sharif : "Linguistic and Cultural Aspects in translating Media Texts: A case of University of Al Zawia ".
  2. Jalal Aldoseri : "Strategies Developed by Translation Students Translating English texts into Arabic with focus on lexical items".
  3. Abdul-Rahman Alfahad: "The Strategies of Answers and Evasions in Arabic News Interviews".
  4. Suad Agil, Arabic Literature & Translation . 
  5. Mohamed A. Al Barakati: "Translating Euphemism from Arabic into English".
  6. Yousef Manita: "Investigating Lexical Problems in English-Arabic Translation with Special Reference to Collocation.
  7. Othman Othman: " Analysis of teh Role of Micro and Macro Levels in Rendering Standard Arabic Provers into English.
  8. Sana Abu-Ain "Translation Problems in Political Journalistic Discourse. 
  9. Ahmed Alesawe: "Acquisition and Use of English Perfect Tenses by ESL Libyan University Students. (co-supervised with Prof. Michael Baynham).

Book reviews

  1. Linguistics and Cultural Studies on Arabic and Hebrew: Essays Presented to Moshe Piamenta for His Eightieth Birthday. Edited by Rosenhouse & Ami Elad-Bouskila ( British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 30 (2), 265-266).
  2. 'Al-Jazeera: How the Free Arab News Network Scooped the World and Challenged the Middle East', published by M. El-Nawawy & Adel Iskandar (British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 32 (2), 271-273).
  3. Education and the Arab World: Challenges of the Next Millennium, published by the Emirates Centre for Strategic Studies and Research (will appear in British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies).
  4. Standard Arabic: An Elementary - Intermediate Course . Eckehard Schlz, Gunter Krah and Wolfgang Reuschel, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000. (33(2), 221-262.
  5. Marc Lynch (2006). Voices of the New Arab Public: Iraq, Al-Jazeera and Middle East Today. Columbia University Press: New York (to be published in British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (34) 1 2007.
  6. MOHAMED ZAYANI. The Al Jazeera Phenomenon: Critical Perspectives on New Arab Media. (British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 34 (2))

Other Information

Presentations at International Conferences:

  • The social significance of the questioning process within Moroccan classrooms', presented at the European Sociolinguistic Symposium at the University of Gent Belgium (4th - 8th April, 2002)
  • 'Classroom discursive practice: Critical discourse analysis in action', presented at the 28th International Systemic Functional Congress at Carleton University, Canada ( 21st -27th July, 2001)
  • The impact of the social and cultural practice on the classroom practice', presented at Text and Talk International Conference at the University of Gent, Belgium (14th -18th August, 2000)
  • "A taster in Arabic language", presented  at Languages for Life Conference at All Saints RC School & Millthorpe School (21 November, 2003)
  • "Arabic language and culture", presented  at Languages for Life Conference at All Saints RC School & Millthorpe School (25 November, 2005)
  • "I am the slave of the ghurāb"Muslim galley slaves of 1598: the Knights and the Saracens, presented at  Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants - Sassari, Sardinia - ItalyTwenty-third Congress 28 September to 2 October 2006.

  • Arab Media: Discourse and Representation of the 2006 Hezbollah-Israeli Conflict", presented at WOCMES 2010 in Barcelona, Spain.

  • "E.Government Services Delivery in Kuwait: Problems and Challenges", presented at the 2011 BRISMES Conference in the University of Exeter.

Awards / Prizes

1. Awarded the Faculty of Arts (2007) Teaching Development Prize for innovation in teaching and learning and contribution to the development of the curriculum.

2. British Academy Award (Small Grant) (with colleagues from Exeter, Bimingham and Malta) "The Case of Giorgio Scala and Letters by Muslim Galley Slaves - 1598

3. Awarded a University Teaching Fellowship 2010.