Brief Bio
1. Personal Information
Name: Dr. Ahmed Youcef
E-mail: ahyoucef@squ.edu.om
Academic Rank: Associate Professor
Department: Arabic language
Specialization: Modern literary criticism
Minor specialization: Semiotics and discourse analysis
Address: Sultan Qaboos University, College of Arts & Social Sciences. P.O Box 42, P.C. 123. Al-Khod, Sultanate of Oman.
2. Employment History
Place of Work (Institution)
Year
Occupation
University of Oran / Algeria
1986-2015
Professor
University of Algier 2
2015- until now
Professor
Faculty of Islamic and Arabic Studies / Dubai
2010-2011
Professor
Sultan Qaboos University
2011- until now
Associate Professor
3. Education and Qualifications
3- 1 Qualifications
Year
Qualification
Institution
1999
Ph.D.
in
Litterature
University of Oran / Strasbourg
University of Oran / Algeria
2004
Ph.D. of Philosophy
University of Oran / Algeria
1989
Master of Arts
3.2 Courses Taught
Level
- Literary works (Arabic 6507)
Ph.D. (SQU)
- Discourse analysis (Arabic 6541)
- Arabic literary and critical issues
- Narrative semiotics
Ph.D. (University of Algier 2)
- Pragmatics and discourse analysis
- Semiotics communication
M.A (University of Oran)
- Semiotics and logic
- Philosophy of beauty
- Semiotics and philosophy of language
- Methodology of Research
- Semiotics schools
- Analysis of literary texts
College of Islamic and Arabic Studies (Dubai /
- Modenr critical methodology
United Arab Emirates)
- The main sources of Literature and criticism (Arabic 6104)
Master (SQU)
- Contemporary Arabic literature
Bachelor (University of Oran)
- Modern literary criticism
- The General folk Literature
- Contemporary literary criticism
- Text linguistics
- Semiotics and literary social science
- Discourse Analysis
- General Linguistics
Bachelor (University of Bel Abbas/ Algeria)
- Linguistic schools
- Contemporary literary criticism
Bachelor (College of Islamic and Arabic Studies)
- Comparative literature
- Contemporary Arabic literature
- The University Requirement
Bachelor (SQU)
- Introduction to Arabic Language and Literature
- Andalusian and Maghreban literature
- Child literature
- Methodology of research
- The study of the art of biography
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4. Research
4.1 Research Interests
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Modern literary criticism
Semiotics and discourse analysis
Philosophy
4.2 Papers (5 most important or recent papers)
The image the "other" in the memoirs of Malik ibin Nabi, Arab Social Scienses Journal, Kuwait University, a special
version, 2015
Introduction to publicity and multiple semiatics, Icons journal, fifth issue in October 2015. .pdfhttp:
//www.4shared.com/office/0pOpx2xoce/____2015.html
Malik ibin Nabi memoirs and writing above "Ego", Annals of the University of Algiers, Part I, p. 25, July 2014.
- The image of Oman in the "Ladies moon", Arab Social Scienses Journal, Kuwait University, a special edition
"Crossroads century: Arab culture between Orientalism and Occidentalism".2013.
- Rhetoric and ideology, Semiotics journal, University of Oran, Algeria, p. 4.2013.
4.3 Conferences (5 most important or recent conferences)
1- Engineering programs and Social Sciences at Sultan Qaboos University: Presentation of the experience and directions,
Interpersonal Third International Conference of College of Arts and Social Sciences "between the social sciences and other
sciences: the experiences and aspirations," Sultan Qaboos University, Sultanate of Oman, 15 to 17 December 2015 in
conjunction with the a. Dr.. Haji Bourdosn of the College of Engineering.
2- Anthropology of society in Oman Encyclopedia, the international symposium on (Studies in Omani encyclopedia), Cultural
Club in collaboration with the Ministry of Heritage and Culture, Oman authority, 17 to 18 November 2015.
3- The image of Oman in the "Ladies moon", the Conference of the tributaries of social development and industrial
transformation of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Reality and Prospects), Kuwait University.
4- Theoretical foundations of semiotics of the natural world, the Eighth Congress for " semiotics and literary text, 8-10
November 2015, the University of Mohamed Kheider in Biskra, Algeria.
5- The textual thresholds in the Abdul-Wahab al-Bayati’s village market, Arabic Language and Literature Department at Sultan
Qaboos University, Oman, 17,18, 19 March, 2015.
4.4 Thesis Supervision (5 most recent theses)
- Saud al-Zadjali,The General and particular in the principles of jurisprudence semiotic study.
- Ghassab as Sagr, Semantic and pragmatic signs and dimensions in Imam Malik's way: semiotic study / Ph.D.
(discussed in 2016)
- Badria Alyahyaiyya, Woman Passions in the Omani novel / Ph.D.
- Hafez Umbusaidy, Tofhat a’yaan bi sirati Ahli in Oman, of Nor- eddin Es-Salimi, a Hermeneutics study / Ph.D.
- Mubarak al-Jabiri ,The prose poem in the Gulf: structural and Genetic study / Ph.D.
5. Awards
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6. Community Service
6.1 Community services (Lectures – Seminars – etc….)
-Fundamentalism Semiotics, Fatima al Alyani Salon, Muscat International Fair (21) for the book, Friday, 02.26.2016.
- Literature and society, Cultural coffee shop and Association of writers of Oman, Muscat International Fair (21) for the book,
Mon 29 02/2016.
Seminar "Multi-per in Sama Isa’s literature, Arabic Language Department at Sultan Qaboos University 12/27/2015
- Workshop " methodology of research " for the benefit of people with special needs, 17/02/2016
- Arabic language and scientific research, on the occasion of the International Day of the Arabic language, the Arabi languagr
group, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, 21/12/2014.
6.2 Committee membership (5 main committees)
- Rapporteur of the Third International Section Conference
- The third member of the Preparatory Committee of the International Conference of the College
- Member of the Postgraduate Studies Committee at the Department
- Member of the Promotions Committee at the department and the college
- Member of the Employment Committee
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