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I had started to write this article for Reham Hosny, as Arabic electronic literature is quite important given today's context, and we wanted to highlight this as part of the Women Electronic Literature Writers in Wikipedia Project this month. Until writing this article and researching for it, I was not aware that Dr. Hosny had examined one of my works. In an abundance of caution, I will stop writing now and pass this onto someone else. I believe what I have written so far can stand as these are researched citations. LoveElectronicLiterature (talk) 18:54, 22 February 2024 (UTC)LoveElectronicLiterature (talk) 18:52, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
@RayGoForth, @Liljil, or @LSkains, could you take over this draft?[reply]
This is how far I got, and I do not have any conflict of interest for this material. Reham Hosny is an Arab electronic literature writer and academic researcher specializing in digital literature. Her work is devoted to building links between Western electronic literature communities and growing digital culture and literature communities in underrepresented areas.
Hosny currently lectures at Minia University, Egypt.
She spent two years as a visiting scholar at College of Liberal Arts at RIT-New York and West Virginia University.
The British Academy and University of Cambridge is sponsoring Hosny's fellowship research, “Locked Up for Reading a Poem”: AI Poetics of Disguise and Literary Activism in the Arab World, which is exploring ways to use artificial intelligence frameworks for expressing political opinions "without risking their lives."
In 2015, Hosny helped launch arabicelit, a website to collate data on Arabic electronic literature writers. She has helped organized conferences, including the first Arabic E-Lit Conference (Dubia Feb 25-27, 2018).Hosny has been a member of the Electronic Literature Organization Board since 2021.
In her 2018 essay, "Mapping Electronic Literature in the Arabic Context" in the Electronic Book Review, Hosny explores digital literature terminology and Arab culture, making a case for Arab literature inclusion into the Electronic Literature Collections. She then became a an international consultant for the Electronic Literature Collection 4, which now contains four works marked with the keywords Arabic.
Academic Articles
In 2017, Hosny conducted a review of teaching electronic literature in Arabic Universities in her Hyperrhiz essay, "E-Lit in Arabic Universities: Status Quo and Challenges." Hosny explored the print progenitors of electronic literature within Arabic literature in her essay and talk at the ELO 2017 conference July 18-22 in Porto, Portugal, “Roots and Shoots: History and Development of Arabic Electronic Literature.” She parlays this exploration into a deep dive in defining what electronic literature is in her 2023 Electronic Book Review essay, "Classifying the Unclassifiable: Genres of Electronic Literature."
Her chapter in the 2023 work, Global Perspectives on Digital Literature, "Between Two Screens" explores the January 25th Revolution in Egypt.
Creative Works
Al-Barrah (The Announcer), written in collaboration with Mohamed Nasef (2019 – 2021the first Arabic augmented reality and hologram novel) combines augmented reality and holograms as part of the work.
She received the Ihsan Abdel Quddous Literary Prize for short story writing for her short story collection Amma Ba’d (English translation: and thereafter) (2012).
