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Reading the World | قراءة العالم | World Literature, Critical Reading, & Culture

Reading the World | قراءة العالم | World Literature, Critical Reading, & Culture

著者: Ali A. Alhajji | World Literature & Culture
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Reading the World | قراءة العالم is a bilingual podcast (English and Arabic) that explores world literature, culture, and higher education—as interconnected ways of understanding how meaning is produced, circulated, and contested across societies—through the practice of critical reading.


At its core, the podcast asks a foundational question: What does it mean to read the world?


Not only books or literary texts, but also narratives, institutions, media discourses, educational systems, and cultural assumptions that shape how knowledge is formed and whose voices are heard.


Drawing on approaches from the humanities, each episode treats reading as a method of inquiry rather than a neutral skill. Through careful attention to language, context, power, and perspective, the podcast asks: who is speaking, from where, and for whom?


World literature is approached not as a fixed canon of great books, but as a framework for understanding how texts move across languages, cultures, and political contexts. Translation and interpretation are treated as central to meaning-making.


The podcast also examines the role of universities and higher education in shaping knowledge production and public discourse across borders.


Each episode focuses on one concept at a time, clearly and carefully, without oversimplification.


Designed for listeners interested in the humanities and global culture, Reading the World | قراءة العالم invites a slower, more attentive way of engaging with ideas—and with the world we inhabit.


قراءة العالم | Reading the World هو بودكاست ثنائي اللغة (العربية والإنجليزية) يستكشف الأدب العالمي، والثقافة، والتعليم العالي بوصفها مسارات مترابطة لفهم كيفية إنتاج المعنى وتداوله والتنازع عليه داخل المجتمعات المختلفة.


ينطلق البودكاست من سؤال تأسيسي: ماذا يعني أن نقرأ العالم؟


لا بوصف القراءة فعلًا يقتصر على الكتب أو النصوص الأدبية، بل باعتبارها ممارسة تمتد إلى السرديات، والمؤسسات، والخطابات الإعلامية، والأنظمة التعليمية، والافتراضات الثقافية التي تُشكّل المعرفة وتحدّد أي الأصوات تُسمَع.


استنادًا إلى مناهج العلوم الإنسانية، تتعامل كل حلقة مع القراءة بوصفها منهجًا نقديًا، لا مهارة محايدة، مع تركيز خاص على اللغة، والسياق، والسلطة، والمنظور: من يتكلم؟ ومن أي موقع؟ ولمن؟


لا يُقدَّم الأدب العالمي هنا بوصفه قائمة بأعظم الأعمال، بل إطارًا لفهم حركة النصوص عبر اللغات والثقافات والسياقات السياسية، حيث تُعد الترجمة والتأويل جزءًا أساسيًا من إنتاج المعنى.


كما يتناول البودكاست دور الجامعات والتعليم العالي في تشكيل المعرفة وتنظيم الخطاب العام.


تركّز كل حلقة على مفهوم واحد في كل مرة، بوضوح وعناية، ومن دون تبسيط مُخلّ. وهو موجّه للمهتمين بالعلوم الإنسانية والثقافة العالمية، ويدعو إلى قراءة أبطأ، وأكثر انتباهًا، للأفكار وللعالم الذي نعيش فيه.

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    A bilingual podcast (English and Arabic) exploring world literature, culture, and higher education as ways of understanding how meaning is produced, circulated, and contested.

    Each episode takes one question at a time—carefully, clearly, and without oversimplification.

    Follow the podcast to continue the conversation.

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    Each episode takes one question at a time—carefully, clearly, and without oversimplification.

    Follow the podcast to continue the conversation.

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    A bilingual podcast (English and Arabic) exploring world literature, culture, and higher education as ways of understanding how meaning is produced, circulated, and contested.

    Each episode takes one question at a time—carefully, clearly, and without oversimplification.

    Follow the podcast to continue the conversation.

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