Associate Professor of Modern Arabic literature, Comparative literature and Translation at the Tunisian universities since 1990. Dr. Omar Mokdad Jemni received his B.A. of Arts degree (1980), M.A. of Arts Degree (1983), Ph.D degree of Arts (1989) and Habilitation degree HDR (2017) in Arabic language and literatures from Tunisian Universities. Dr. Omar Mokdad Jemni, is currently associate professor in the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the Faculty of Humanities and Sciences at Ajman University, UAE, and a former associate professor at the French universities (Lumières - Lyon II University, Paris-Sorbonne 4 university, Paris-Sorbonne 8 University, and the Institut national français des langues et civilisations orientales à Paris). He is a member of the Master’s, Ph. D. and Habilitation degrees Committee at Tunisian universities. Former Director of languages and translation Department at Tunisian universities. Founder and General Secretary of the Tunisian Comparative Literature Society (TUCLIS) at the Tunisian University. Member of Tunisian, Arab and international academic institutions in Comparative and World literature. He has participated in a number of Tunisian, Arab and international conferences, and has published a number of books and studies in Arabic and French in refereed journals. Also, he has been an arbitrator and a member of an editorial board in a number of specialized periodicals

Education

• 2017: Habilitation Degree (HDR) Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, University of Tunis
• 1989:Ph.D Degree, Faculty of Letters, La Manouba, University of Tunis
• 1982:M.A. of Arts Degree, Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, Tunisian University
• 1980:B.A. of Arts Degree, Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, Tunisian University
• 1979: Higher studies Certificate in Comparative literature, Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, Tunisian University
• 2002: Diploma in English Language (5years), Bourguiba Institute of Modern Languages (I.B.LV.), University of El Manar, Tunis

Experience

• Since 13/02/2019 to now: Associate Professor, Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Sciences, University of Ajman, United Arab Emirates
• 2017 -2019: Associate Professor, Department of Arabic language and literatures, Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, University of Tunis
• 2006 -2017: Assistant Professor, Department of Arabic language and literatures, Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, University of Tunis
• 2001 - 2006 : Assistant Professor, Institut supérieur de l’animation pour la Jeunesse et la culture, Bir El Bey, Tunis, University of Tunis
• 1998 – 2001: Assistant Professor, Department of Arabic language and literatures, Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, Tunis, University of Tunis
• 1997 - 1998: Associate Professor in modern Arabic literature at the Department of Arabic Studies, Faculty of languages, Lumières- Lyon 2 University, Lyon, FRANCE
• 1997 – 1998: (In parallel) Visiting Associate Professor, Departments for Arabic and Eastern Studies in the Universities of Paris-Sorbonne IV, Paris -Sorbonne VIII, and the Institut national des langues et civilisation orientales- INALCO, Paris, France.
• 1996-19997: (In parallel with teaching in the Faculty of human and social Sciences, University of Tunis, Tunis), Head of the Languages and translation Department, Arab University of science (private university), Tunis
• 1992 – 1997: Assistant Professor, Department of Arabic language and literatures, Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, University of Tunis. Tunis
• 1989 - 1992: Assistant, Department of Arabic language and literatures, Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, University of Tunis. Tunis

Teaching Area

• Modern Arabic literature (poetry, narrative, drama)
• History of Arabic literature in the modern era
• Theories of literary criticism
• Modern Arab literary criticism
• Theories of Comparative literature
• Comparative literature applied to Arab and European Literatures
• Arab Comparative literature
• Translation theory
• Classics and World literature
• General translation Pratica
• Arabic-French translation
• French-Arabic translation
• Specialized translation (journalistic, cultural, and human and social sciences translation)
• Traductics/Translation Technologies (computer-assisted translation, automatic translation, etc.)
• Modern Arabic thought
• Research methods
• Research of knowledge resources on the web / concepts, methodologies and tools
• Pre-Islamic Literature
• Omeyyade literature
• Abbaasi Literature

Research

• Academic specialization: Literature and Criticism
• Subspecialties : Modern and comparative Arabic literature, and Translation
• Research : Taha Hussein -Modern Arabic literature –- Comparative Literature-
• interests World Literature-Orientalism-Travel Literature- History of Literature- Literary criticism-– Theory of Literature – Theories of Translation- Applied Translation (From French to Arabich and from Arabic to French)-Traductics (Translation Technologies )- Digital pedagogies
• Publications
• Published Articles
• “Ahmed Etman as I knew him”, in Comparative Study and Literatures in Dialogue, Tome III, edited by Omar Mokdad Jemni, Publications of Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, Tunis, 2016, pp 153-165. (In Arabic)
• “Hussam al-Khateeb as I knew him “, in Hussam al-Khateeb: The Aesthetic of acculturation, Ali al-Qayyim editor, Damascus, Syria, General Syrian Organization for Book, 2011, pp.78-81. (In Arabic)
• “Mongi Chemli” in Papers and Ages, Mokhtar Krayem Editor, Tunis, Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, 2011, pp.47-58. (In Arabic)
• “Rifaat al-Tahtâwî and Tâhâ Hussein : continuity or discontinuity ?”, Survival is in Dialogue, Language and Thought in Near East Civilisations, Fredereck Musall and Abdulbary al-Mudarris Editors, Wiesbaden, Germany, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2011, pp.11-17. (In Arabic)
• “The meaning of return at Anouar Louca” in SemiotiqueS, peer-reviewed academic journal, University of Tetouan, Maroc, 5-6, March-October, 2010, p. 64-75. (In Arabic)
• “Tâhâ Hussein, as a mastermind of Anouar Louca Or the Intergenerational relationship between A. Louca et T. Hussein “, Cahiers de Tunisie , peer-reviewed academic journal, Faculty of Human and Social Sciences Publications, Tunis, University of Tunis, Volume LXI, N°199/200, 4th quarter of 2006 and 1st quarter of 2007, pp.115 – 145. (In French)
• “Edouard al-Kharrât and the Transgeneric writing”, Nizwa, peer-reviewed academic journal, Muscat, Oman, 44, October 2005; pp135-142. (In Arabic)
• “Tâhâ Hussein” article written for the Encyclopaedia of Muslim Arab Scholars, Tunis, ALECSO, Beirut-Cairo-Tunis, Dar el-Jil, 2005, Volume IX, pp.422-436. (In Arabic)
• “The Place of Tâhâ Hussein in Anouar Louca's works” in Le Voyage et la Langue (Travel and Language), edited by Joseph Dichy and Hassan Hamzé, Damascus, Syria, Institut Français du Proche Orient (Ifpo), 2004, pp.211- 217. (In French)
• “Tâhâ Hussein and Ibn Roshd: Two tribulations”, in Hawliyyât al-Jâmi’ati al-tunisiyya (Annals of the Tunisian University), peer-reviewed academic journal, Tunis, 46, 2002, pp. 423-456. (In Arabic)
• “The Tribulation of Ibn Roshd as seen by Tâhâ Hussein” in Averroes (1126-1198) oder der Triumph des Rationalismus, Heidelberg, Universitat verlag C.Winter, 2002, pp.369-377. (In French)
• “About symbol, literature and life: Some reflections on Tâhâ Hussein's historical discourse “, in al-Majallatu al-‘arabiyyatu li-thaqqâfa (The Arab Journal of Culture), peer-reviewed academic journal,, ALECSO-Tunis, 37, 1999, pp.149-162. (In Arabic)
• “Tâhâ Hussein and Ernest Renan“, in Comparative literature in the Arab World, Cairo, Egypt, Egyptian Society of comparative literature Eds., 1998, pp.243-259. (In Arabic)
• “Criticism and ideology: A Study in the influence of socialist realism on the modern Arabic criticism”, al-Majallatu al-arabiyyatu li-thaqqâfa (the Arab Journal of Culture), peer-reviewed academic journal, ALECSO -Tunis, 32, March 1997, pp. 254-263. (In Arabic)
• “Tâhâ Hussein and Ernest Renan “(Self-translation from Arabic to French of the essay N°7), in Etudes Renaniennes (Renan's Studies), peer-reviewed academic journal, Société des Etudes Renaniennes, Paris, n°102, Dec. 1996, pp.38-54. (In French)
• “Aspects of the positivist method in the historical discourse of Tâhâ Hussein”, Miawiyyatu Tâhâ Hussein, Tunis-Carthage, Eds of the Tunisian Academy of sciences, letters and arts (Beit al-Hikma), 1993, pp. 233- 250 . (In Arabic)
• “Technical issues in Tâhâ Hussein's work: Adîb”, in Hawliyyât al-jâmi’ati al-tunisiyya (Annals of the Tunisian University), peer-reviewed academic journal, Tunis, 33, 1993, pp.l03-155. (In Arabic)
• “The Definition of History and the Craft of the Historian: Aspects of the historical vision of Tâhâ Hussein”, in al-Hayâtu al- thaqqâfiyya (Cultural Life), Tunis, 55, 1990, pp. 25-32. (In Arabic)
• “Religious trends in contemporary Egyptian literature by Taha Hussein”, in l'Islam et l'Occident, pp.235-241, translation to Arabic (in collaboration), in al-Hayâtu al-thaqqâfiyya (Cultural life), Tunis, 55, 1990, pp.4 -10. (In Arabic)

Memberships, Awards and Honors

• Academic founding activities
• Founder and General Secretary of the Tunisian Comparative Literature Society (TUCLIS) Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, Tunis, University of Tunis, since 2011
• Founder and General Coordinator of the Comparative Literature Research Group- (COLIREG), Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, Tunis, University of Tunis, since 2008.
• Co-founder of the Tunisian Journal of Cultural Sciences, a refereed biannual Journal that will appear twice a year and will be edited by the Institut supérieur de l’animation pour la Jeunesse et la culture, Bir El Bey, Tunis, University of Tunis (Currently awaiting visa)
• National Academic memberships
• Member of the Research Unit (U.R.323) “Dialogue of Cultures”, Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, Tunis, University of Tunis, since 2002
• Member of The Research Unit (U.R.14ES03) “Mediterranean imaginary and interculturality: Comparative approaches”, Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, Tunis, University of Tunis, since2014.
• Member of the Executive Committee of the Association for the Promotion of Research and Virtual Education (APREV), School of Business and Economics, Tunis, University of Carthage, Tunis, responsible for relations with the institutions of letters and humanities, since 2012
• Member of the Association of Development and Defence of the Arabic Language, Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, Tunis, University of Tunis, since 2014
• Member of the Brachylogia Association -Tunisia, Higher Institute of Human Sciences of Tunis, Tunis El-Manar University, Tunis, since 2016
• Member and expert of the Digital Arabic Language Association (DALA),Higher Institute of Languages of Tunis, University of Carthage, since 2018
• International Academic memberships
• Member of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA/AILC), Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), France, since 2010
• Member of the European Network of Comparative Literary Studies (ENCLS/REELC), Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia, since 2011
• Member of the French Society of General and Comparative Literature (SFLGC), Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3, France, since2014
• Member of the International Coordination of Researchers on Maghreb Literature (CICLIM), University Lumière-Lyon 2, France, since 2016
• Member of the International Coordination of Researches and studies on Brachylogia (CIREB), University Paris-Sorbonne 4, Paris, since 2015
• Scientific evaluation
• Member of the evaluation committee for the Prize of Koweit for Literatures and Arts (session 2017 : Comparative literature and translation) by Koweit Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences; 2017
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the magazine Attawasul al-Adabi (Literary Communication), a peer-reviewed academic journal of General and Comparative literature, criticism and translation, published by General and Comparative literature laboratory, University of Badji Mokhtar, Annaba, Algeria, since 2015
• Evaluator for Les Cahiers de Tunisie, a peer-reviewed and indexed journal, ISSN 0008-0012-2P7, Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, Tunis, University of Tunis, Tunisia, since 2015