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9 monthsDr. Habib Issa Bouherour is an Algerian researcher and university academic. He has been a university professor in Algeria since 2000 and has also worked at international and Gulf universities, serving as an associate professor at Qatar University from September 2009 to August 2019, and at Kuwait University from September 2019 to the present. He obtained his PhD in modern Arabic literature and literary theory in 2007, and a university teaching qualification for managing university research in higher studies (HDR) in 2009 from Constantine 1 University in Algeria. He works in the fields of contemporary criticism and literary theory, with his research interests and publications focusing on modern and contemporary poetry, literary theory, literary discourse analysis, and contemporary narratives. He has published over twenty peer-reviewed academic papers and cultural studies (34) from 2002 to 2025 in various academic journals in countries including Britain, Denmark, India, Indonesia, Brunei, Malaysia, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria, the UAE, Qatar, and Kuwait. Dr. Habib has four specialized books with international ISBN registration, which are individually authored works in criticism and literary theory. The first is titled "The Formation of the Critical Position in Adonis and Nizar Qabbani" (2008), the second "Thresholds of Discourse: Studies in Criticism and Literary Theory" (2009), the third "Approaches in Criticism and Literary Theory" (2014), and the fourth "Revelation and Interpretation: Readings in Cultural Criticism" (2018). Dr. Bouherour has taught undergraduate and graduate courses (Master’s and Doctorate) in his specialization, supervised graduation theses and master’s dissertations, and conducted graduate research. He has held various academic administrative positions, including Director of the Master's and Doctorate Program in Arabic Language and Literature at Qatar University and Kuwait University, and Editor-in-Chief of a peer-reviewed academic journal in Algeria. As a recipient of research grants, he led specialized scientific projects, the latest being (2014-2016): a bibliography of peer-reviewed journals and magazines in language, literature, and humanities published in Arabic in Arab and non-Arab countries, among others.
-Winner of the Rashid bin Hamid Award for Culture and Science in the United Arab Emirates (40th session 2023) in the field of literary criticism.
University Degrees College University Country
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-HDR University Qualification Certificate
(Certificate of a qualified professor for supervising graduate research – the highest academic degree after PhD in the European system)
Faculty of Arts and Languages University of Mentouri Constantine, Algeria 2009
-PhD Certificate
(Grade: Very Honorable) Faculty of Arts and Languages University of Mentouri Constantine
Algeria 2007
-Master's Degree
(Grade: Very Honorable) Faculty of Arts and Languages University of Mentouri Constantine
Algeria 2000
-Bachelor's Degree Faculty of Arts and Languages University of Mentouri Constantine
Algeria 1991
- Appendix: International Awards in the Field of Specialization
Winner of Rashid Bin Hamid Award for Culture and Sciences (40th session 2023) in the United Arab Emirates for Literary Criticism
Award link and winner's list: https://rsh-award.org.ae/40
No | Position | Institution | Date | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
From | To | Kuwait | ||
1 | Associate Professor | University of Kuwait | 1-9-2019 | p |
2 | Director of Master's and Doctorate Programs | Faculty of Arts, University of Kuwait | 23-2-2023 | 24-3-2024 |
3 | Associate Professor | University of Qatar | 09-2009 | 25-6-2019 |
4 | Director (Coordinator) of the master’s Program in Arabic Language | Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Qatar | 01-2012 | 11-9-2014 |
5 | Associate Professor for one semester at the Ahmed bin Mohammed Military School | Ahmed bin Mohammed Military School | September 2016 | January 2017 |
6 | Associate Professor | School: Higher School of Teachers in Arts and Humanities ENS-C | 2007 | 2009 |
7 | Assistant Professor | School: Higher School of Teachers in Arts and Humanities ENS-C | 2000 | 2007 |
8 | Editor-in-Chief responsible for the publication of the "Teacher's Forum" journal (published quarterly) | School: Higher School of Teachers in Arts and Humanities ENS-C | 2003 | 2009 |
9 | Head of the Student Activities Department | National Office of University Services | 1994 | 2000 |
-Literary Criticism and Literary Theory
-Contemporary Narratives
-Cultural Criticism and Cultural Studies
-Comparative Literature and World Literatures
-Modern and Contemporary Arabic Poetry
Level | University | Course Title (English) | Code |
| Bachelor’s | Kuwait University | Modern Literary Criticism Theories and Applications | 0310300 |
| Folk Literature | 0310311 | ||
| Modern Arabic Poetry | 0310427 | ||
| Modern Trends in Comparative Literature | 0310441 | ||
| Literature of the Gulf and Arabian Peninsula | 0310408 | ||
| Modern Arabic Prose (Readings) | 0310416 | ||
| Special Topics in Eastern Literature (Readings) | 0310456 | ||
| Linguistic Communication Skills | 0310101 | ||
| Bachelor’s | Qatar University | Introduction to Literature and Its Arts | ARAB 110 |
| Modern and Contemporary Literary Criticism | ARAB 383 | ||
| Modern Narratology | ARAB 382 | ||
| Modern and Contemporary Arabic Poetry | ARAB 381 | ||
| Comparative Literature | ARAB | ||
| Integrated Experiences in Literature (Capstone) | ARAB 492 | ||
| Bachelor’s | ENSC & Constantine Univ- Algeria | Modern Literary Prose | N/A |
| Modern and Contemporary Arabic Literature | N/A | ||
| Modern and Contemporary Algerian Literature | N/A | ||
| Comparative Literature | N/A | ||
| Contemporary Critical Schools | N/A | ||
| Classical Literary Criticism | N/A | ||
| Literary Discourse Analysis | N/A | ||
| Graduation Project/Thesis | N/A | ||
| Post Graduate | Kuwait University | Modern Critical Methodologies | 0316601 (PhD) |
| Research Seminar in Literary and Critical Issues | 0316597 (PhD) | ||
| Research Seminar in Literature and Criticism | 0316531 (MA) | ||
| Novel and Short Story | 0316512 (MA) | ||
| Modern Trends in Comparative Literature | 0316528 (MA) | ||
| Issues in Contemporary Poetry | 0316505 (MA) | ||
| Thesis | 0316597 (MA) | ||
| Dissertation 1 & 2 | 0316698 (PhD) | ||
| Post Graduate | Qatar University | Arabic Narrative Arts | ARAB 522 |
| Thesis 1 & 2 | ARAB 548/549 | ||
| Issues in Arab Poetics | ARAB 511 | ||
| Research Seminar in Literature | ARAB 503 | ||
| Literary Theory and Research Methodology | ARAB 501 | ||
| Cultural Criticism | ARAB 525 | ||
| History of Global Criticism | ARAB 514 | ||
| Literary Theory | ARAB 508 | ||
| Studies in Gulf Literature | ARAB 523 |
| No. | Research Title | Journal Name | Publication Date* and Volume | Publisher | Place of Publication |
|-----|----------------|--------------|-------------------------------|-----------|----------------------|
| 34 | The Emergence of Prose Poetry in Modern French Poetics | World Literature Journal | Issue 201 Winter 2025 | Arab Writers Union, Damascus | Syria |
| 33 | Levels of Experimental Consciousness in Contemporary Arabic Poetry *An Ontological Discourse or a Contextual Requirement* | Proceedings of the International Conference on Recovering Poetry from the Early Ancestors to the New Millennium | Amman, Jordan, Peer-reviewed Conference Proceedings | Al-Owais Cultural Foundation in Dubai in partnership with Abdul Hamid Shoman Foundation in Amman 2024 | Amman, Jordan |
| 32 | Cultural References in Asia Jabar's Narratives – A Cultural-Existential Approach | Ajman Journal for Studies and Research | Volume 23, Issue 2, Second Semester 2024 | Published by Rashid Bin Humaid Award for Culture and Sciences in Ajman, UAE | Ajman, United Arab Emirates |
| 31 | Surrealist Representations in George Heinen's Poetic Experiences - The Missing Link in the Development of Prose Poetry in the Arab World | Peer-reviewed Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference "Representations and Images in Semantic Studies" | Faculty of Arts and Humanities, April 2024 | Manouba University, Tunisia | Tunisia |
| 30 | After Lyotard: Aesthetics in France Today (Translation of an Academic Study) | Global Culture Journal, Kuwait, Issue 208 | Kuwait, April 2022 | National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters | Kuwait |
| 29 | How Language Began, by Daniel Everett (Terminological Review from French to Arabic of the Book) | Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences | November 2022 | Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences | Kuwait |
| 28 | The Epidemic Imaginary in Contemporary Narrative: Experimental Consciousness or Artistic Theme | Arab Journal of Humanities | Issue 152, Year 38, Fall 2020 (Symposium Issue) | Kuwait University | Kuwait |
| 27 | Cultural References in Ancient Literary Narrative: Introduction to Kalila and Dimna | International City University Journal (Joint Research) | Issue 32, April 2020 - June 2020 | International City University | Malaysia |
| 26 | Representations of Feminism in Contemporary Gulf Poetry | Al-Bahith Journal (Peer-reviewed) | Volume 10, Issue 2, June 2018 | Laghouat University | Algeria |
| 25 | The Impact of Parnassianism on Modern Arabic Poetry | Al-Lisan Journal (Peer-reviewed) | Volume 1, Issue 2, April 2017 | College of Languages, International City University | Malaysia |
| 24 | Introductory Discourse in Novel Texts | Qafila Journal | Issue 34, August 2016 | Literary Club, Riyadh, Ministry of Culture | Saudi Arabia |
| 23 | The Poetics of Woman and the Masculinity of Language: A Reading in Scene and Manifestation | Al-Faisal Journal | Issue 481, November 2016 | King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies | Saudi Arabia |
| 22 | Thresholds and Imaginary Discourse in Contemporary Arabic Novels | Umm Al-Qura University Journal of Language and Literature (Peer-reviewed) | Issue 16, April 2016 | Umm Al-Qura University, Mecca | Saudi Arabia |
| 21 | Cultural Interaction and Reception of the Other Text | Kerala Journal (Peer-reviewed) | January 2016 | Kerala University, Department of Arabic | India |
| 20 | Foundational Reading in the Term of Prose Poetry in the Arab World | Majalla al-Aasima (Arabic), Issue 7, 2015 | College, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India | India |
| 19 | Critical Theory and the Concept of Text in Modern German Criticism | Kufa Studies Center Journal (Peer-reviewed) | Volume 9, Issue 33, June 2014 | Kufa Studies Center, Kufa University | Iraq |
| 18 | Manifestations of Intellectual Modernization in Modern European Poetry | Maqalid Journal (Peer-reviewed) | Issue 7, December 2014 | Ouargla University | Algeria |
| 17 | The Essence of Heritage within Modern Ideological Constructs | Proceedings of the Peer-reviewed Conference | January 2014 | King Saud University | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
| 16 | Vision and Renewal in Contemporary Arabic Poetry: An Approach to Parallel Creativity with the Movement of Arabic Poetic Modernity | Proceedings of the Peer-reviewed Conference | August 2013 - ISBN: 978-602-8033-52-7 | IMLA Bonjol University, Indonesia | Padang, Indonesia |
| 15 | Critique of Modernity and Its Illusions in Adonis' Literary Thought - A Reading in the Mechanisms of Self-Destruction of Modernity's Illusions | Proceedings of the Peer-reviewed Conference | June 2012 | Research and Social Consultation Center, University of London | London, UK |
| 14 | The Origin in Critical Thought in Adonis | Cultures Journal (Peer-reviewed) | Issue 25, December 2012 | College of Arts, University of Bahrain | Manama, Bahrain |
| 13 | Metanarrative in Postmodern Literature | Readings Journal (Peer-reviewed) | Issue 3, April 2013 | Faculty of Arts and Languages, University of Mascara | Algeria |
| 12 | The Intellectual System in the "Maqgoti" Oral Poetry | Naqd Journal, Quarterly Peer-reviewed Journal for Poetry Critique | Issue 7, Winter 2012 | Dar Al-Ghawoun Publishing, Beirut | Beirut, Lebanon |
| 11 | The Theory of Poetry in Contemporary Arab Poets (Peer-reviewed) | Literature Journal (Peer-reviewed) | Issue 1/Volume 24, 2012 | College of Arts, King Saud University | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
| 10 | Representing the Other in Modern European Literary Texts: An Approach to Textual Interaction Mechanisms (Peer-reviewed) | Basra Literature Journal (Peer-reviewed) | Issue 56, 2011 | Basra University | Basra, Iraq |
| 9 | Vision and Orality in the Critical Project of the Lebanese Poetry Group (Peer-reviewed) | "Professor Forum" Journal (Peer-reviewed) | Issue 7, May 2010 | College of the Higher School of Teachers | Constantine, Algeria |
| 8 | The Priority of Leadership in Modern French Prose Poetry (Peer-reviewed) | Literature and Humanities Journal (Peer-reviewed) | June 2010 | Haj Lakhdar University, Batna | Algeria |
| 7 | Poetic Modernity in Nizar Qabbani | "Studies" Journal (Peer-reviewed) | 2009 Special Issue on New Horizons in Discourse | Jordan University | Amman, Jordan |
| 6 | Similarities and Differences in the Dialectic of Heritage and Modernization | Open Arab University Journal (Peer-reviewed) | 2009, Issue 5 | Open Arab University in Denmark | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 5 | Introspection of Poetic Text in the Critical Practice of Nazik al-Malaika | "Critique" Journal, Quarterly Peer-reviewed Journal for Poetry Critique | Issue 4, 2007, Special Issue on Nazik al-Malaika | Published by Dar Al-Nahda Al-Arabiya, Beirut | Beirut, Lebanon |
| 4 | Prose Poetry in the Works of Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud | "Humanities" Journal (Peer-reviewed) | Issue 26, 2006 | Mentouri University, Constantine | Algeria |
| 3 | Linguistic Analysis of Poetry According to Roman Jakobson's Theory (Russian Formalists) | "Al-Mubarez" Journal (Peer-reviewed) | February 2002 | Higher School of Teachers in Humanities and Social Sciences, Bouzaréah, Algeria | Algeria |
| 2 | The Specificity of Time in the Novel "Lady of the Position" by Wacini Laaraj | "Al-Rafid" Journal, Monthly Cultural Journal | Issue 73 | Department of Culture and Media | Sharjah, United Arab Emirates |
| 1 | The Discourse of Peace, the Essence of Divine Laws and Secular Doctrines, A Comparative Study | "Al-Haqiqa" Journal (Peer-reviewed) | Issue 02, 2002 | Adrar University, Algeria | Algeria |