Ihab Hassan

Ihab Hassan (author page at Amazon) is a distinguished American literary critic and writer whose career spans the twentieth century from the New Criticism to Postmodernism and beyond. Born in Cairo, he emigrated to the United States. Educated as an electrical engineer, he emigrated to literature and cultural studies.  Hassan emerged with degrees (BS, MS, MA, PhD) in science and literature as well as honorary doctorates from the University of Uppsala in Sweden and Giessen in Germany.

His work ranges from a pioneering study of postwar American fiction, Radical Innocence, to critiques of the mavericks and giants of contemporary writing, The Dismemberment of Orpheus; from explorations of travel and quest in Selves at Risk, to perceptions of his own life’s journey, in Out of Egypt and Between the Eagle and the Sun: Traces of Japan.  His The Postmodern Turn has become a classic reference on the subject.

He has written essays on Australia, some of which have appeared in The Best Australian Essays for 2000, 2001, and 2002. In the last decade, he has written and published fiction with Australian, American, and Egyptian backgrounds in such journals as AGNI, The Antioch Review, The Alaska Quarterly Review, Pleiades, Nimrod, Fiction International, Chelsea, Confrontation, and Notre Dame Review. He has also completed a novella and a collection of short fiction, The Changeling and Other Stories. (updated 3/2012)

AGNI has published the following work by Ihab Hassan:

•Despots in the Sand: A Quizzical Memoir
•Hawk
•Obituary