Majeed Mohammed Midhin (Assistant Professor)
PhD in English Literature/Contemporary British Theatre
English - Education for Humanities
majeed.mohammed@uoanbar.edu.iq
My name is Majeed Mohammed Midhin. I am from Iraq. I have MA in English literature from the University of Baghdad- College of Languages in 2002. In 2017, I got a PhD in Literature from the University of Essex. It is under the supervisions of Dr. Clare Finburgh and Dr. Elizabeth J. Kuti. My field of interest is contemporary and modern British drama which touches the immediate needs of people in society. I have participated in many colloquiums, conferences and seminars inside and outside UK. Now I am a teacher at the University of Anbar, Iraq.
1-Love and Justice: Face to face in Shakespeare's King Lear's Family Relationship, Diala University-Al-Fatih Journal, No. 17, 2004.Iraq.
2-Innuendo as a Rhetorical Strategy in Shakespeare's Othello, University of Anbar, The Humanity & Economic Journal, No. 4, 2004.Iraq.
3-The Significance of Stage Directions and Linguistic Raparture in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, University of Anbar, The Humanity & Economic Journal, Vol.3, No. 10, 2007. Iraq.
4-Desire under the Elms: Drama of the Absent Hero, University of Baghdad- Alustath Journal, No. 72, 2008.Iraq.
5- Towards a Rhetoric of Fictionality to non-fiction Novel: A Study of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, Diala University-Al-Fatih Journal, No. 36, 2008.Iraq.
6- Majeed Mohammed Midhin, “Arab Spring and Tawfiq AL-Hakim’s Idea of the Social Responsibility of the Artist: Arabic Theatre Working Group,” in Book of Abstracts: Theatre and Stratification (University of Warwick: Cambridge University Press: 2014), p. 320.
7- Tawfik al-Hakim and the Social Responsibility of the Artist, Arab Stages, Volume 1, Number 2 (Spring 2015) by Martin E. Segal Theatre Centre Publications. USA.
8-The Dilemma of the Artist in Contemporary British Theatre: A Theoretical Background, Athens Journal of Humanities & Arts, Volume 2, Issue 4, October 2015. Athens.
9- Techniques used by University Instructors in Teaching Short Story, International Journal of Language and Linguistics, Vol. 2, No. 3. September 2015. USA.
10- Tom Stoppard: The Amorality of the Artist, World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, International Journal of Social, Behavioral, Educational, Economic, Business and Industrial Engineering, Vol: 9, No: 7, 2015, France.
11- Timberlake Wertenbaker: The Representation of Women Artists, A Thematic Study in Contemporary British Theatre. A book by Majeed Mohammed Midhin (LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2016).
12-Majeed Mohammed Midhin, “The Representation of History: A Crisis of Censorship and the
Role of the Artist in Howard Barker’s No End of Blame and
Scenes from an Execution: Political Performances Working Group “in Book of Abstracts: Presenting The Theatrical Past (Stockholm: Cambridge University Press, 2016), p. 500.
13-The Healing Power of Theatre in Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Our Country’s Good
MAJEED MOHAMMED MIDHIN , ArtsPraxis, Volume 6 Number 2, 2019
14-Sadomasochism in Sarah Kane’s Blasted, Journal of University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Volume 22, Issue 11, November – 2020
15-Majeed Mohammed Midhin and David Clare, Memory, National Identity Formation, and (Neo)Colonialism in Hannah Khalil’s A Museum in Baghdad (2019), JCDE (Journal of Contemporary Drama in English), Vol. 9, Issue 2, 2021.
16-Majeed Mohammed Midhin and David Clare, National Cultural History and Transnational Political Concerns in Rasha Fadhil's Ishtar in Baghdad (2003), Studies in Theatre and Performance, Vol. 41, Issue 3 (2021)
1-Translating Myth, An International Conference, 5-7 September 2013, Centre for Myth Studies, University of Essex, At firstsite, Colchester, UK.
2-Theatre and Stratification, School of Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies, The University of Warwick. FIRT/IFTR World Congress: University of Warwick, 28/07/-01/08/2014, UK. I presented a paper entitled “Arab Spring and Tawfiq AL-Hakim’s Idea of the Social Responsibility of the Artist.”
3-4th Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in the Reception of the Ancient World, University of London, Senate House, London, 24-25th November 2014, UK. I presented a paper entitled “Freudian Reading of O’Neil’s Desire under the Elms.”
4-2nd Annual International Conference on Humanities & Arts in a Global World (ATINER), 3-6 January 2015 Athens, Greece. I presented a paper entitled “The Dilemma of the Artist in Contemporary British Theatre: A Theoretical Background.”
5-A Colloquium about “Attempts on his Life- Martin Crimp – playwright, translator, translated,” Pearson Lecture Theatre G22, University College London, Gower Street, WC1E 6BT London, United Kingdom, 31 March 2015.
6-Theatre and Democracy, Department of Theatre Arts, S. N. School of Arts & Communication, University of Hyderabad, India. International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) Annual Conference 6- 10 July 2015. I presented a paper entitled “Contemporary British Theatre: Towards a Democratic Canon.”
7-The International Christopher Marlowe Conference, University of Exeter, 7th-8th September 2015, UK.
8-Symposium: Making theatre in the midst of austerity, Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama, University of Manchester, Bridgeford Street, M13 9PL Manchester, United Kingdom, 4 November 2015.
9-Symposium: Whither Europe? Performance and the ‘Old Continent’ in the long moment of ‘crisis’, Organized by the Inside/Outside Europe Research Network in collaboration with European Theatre Research Network (ETRN), 09 January 2016, G10, School of Arts, Birkbeck College, London, UK.
10-International Women’s Day Conference Resounding Voices: Women, Silence, and the Production of Knowledge, Lindisfarne Centre, St. Aidan’s College, Durham University, 08/03/2016, UK. I presented a paper entitled “The Dilemma of Women Playwrights in Contemporary British Theatre: A Close Reading in Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Plays.”
11-Elsinore Conference 2016, 22-24 April 2016, Kronborg Castle, Helsingør, Denmark, Shakespeare - the next 400 years. I presented a paper entitled “Female/male Characters and Shakespeare’s Perspective of Gender”.
12-Howard Barker Symposium, 27 – 29 May 2016, PRIFYSGOL ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY, Adran Astudiaethau Theatr, Ffilm a Theledu. I presented a paper entitled “Howard Barker: The Crisis of Contemporary British Theatre”.
13-The Eighteenth Annual British Graduate Shakespeare Conference (BRITGRAD) June 2nd – 4th 2016. The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham “400 Years and Counting: Celebrating Early Modern Drama” in Stratford- upon- Avon. I presented a paper entitled “Shakespeare’s Concept of Justice: A Close Reading of Othello and King Lear.”
14-IFTR2016 Conference, Sweden, University of Stockholm June 13 – 17 “Presenting the Theatrical Past.” I presented a paper entitled “The Representation of History: A Crisis of Censorship and the Role of the Artist in Howard Barker’s No End of Blame and Scenes from an Execution.
15-16th Annual Joint Postgraduate Symposium on Ancient Drama “Memory and Imagined Futures APGRD, University of Oxford and Royal Holloway, University of London, June 27 – 28, 2016. I presented a paper entitled “The Reception of Ancient Greek Tragedy and the Power of Theatre in Timberlake Wertenbaker’s The Love of the Nightingale (1988)”.
16-Wesker Celebration on Sunday 09 October 2016 at 15:00 at the Royal Court Theatre in Jerwood Theatre Downstairs.
17-British Theatre in the 21st Century: New texts, New stages, New identities, New worlds. A conference organized by Paris-Sorbonne (VALE EA 4085), Sorbonne-Nouvelle (Prismes EA 4398), Royal Holloway (University of London). Paris-Sorbonne, 13-15 October 2016 Université Paris-Sorbonne.
18-IV International Conference of Myth Criticism: Myth and Emotions, 24-28 October 2016, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. I presented a paper entitled “The Reception of Ancient Greek Tragedy and the Power of Theatre in Timberlake Wertenbaker’s The Love of the Nightingale (1988)”.
19-A Symposium of “Voice and Identity: Touches, Textures, Timbres,” University of Winchester, Saturday 28 January 2017.
20-FOOT 2017, The 25th Festival of Original Theatre: Sounding the Inner Ear of Performance, The Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies, University of Toronto February 2nd – 5th 2017 Canada. I presented a paper entitled “Katie Mitchell on Martin Crimp’s Attempts on Her Life: A New Dimension of Sound Technology”.
21-A Conference of Performance and Revolution I.S.T.R. 2017/ 28-29 April, University of Nottingham.
22-A Conference of Migration/Representation/Stereotypes, 28-30 April 2017, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
23-The Irish Women Playwrights and Theatremakers Conference (8-10 June 2017 at MIC, UL): Mary Immaculate College/University of Limerick, Ireland.
24-The Times They Are A Changin’: Transitions and Transformations, LiFTS PhD Conference 2017, Tuesday 20 June, Essex Business School, Room 2.1, Wivenhoe Park, CO4 3SQ Colchester, United Kingdom.
25-International Festival of Women Making Theatre to Inspire Change, A Conference by Ariadne and University of Essex, Mercury Theatre Colchester, Saturday 24 June 2017.
26-Nation, Nationhood and Theatre, 26th Annual CDE (The German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English) Conference, University of Reading, UK, 29 June- 2 July 2017.
27-My paper entitled “Behind Closed Doors: A Trauma of War and Violence on Iraq in David Hare’s Stuff Happens (2005) and Jonathan Lichtenstein’s The Pull of Negative Gravity (2004)” is accepted to be presented via Political Performances Working Group at the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) Annual Conference, ‘Unstable Geographies: Multiple Theatricalities’, University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil, 10-14 July 2017.
28-My paper entitled “The Artist as a Character in Contemporary British Theatre” is accepted to be presented in the conference of “Writing about Contemporary Artists: Challenges, Practices and Complexities” being held at the University of Surrey, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Department of Music and Media on 20-22 October 2017.
29- IFTR2018 Conference, Serbia, University of Belgrade July 9 – 13 “Theatre and Migration: Theatre, Nation and Identity between Migration and Stasis.” I presented a paper entitled “Cultural Hybridity: The Question of Britishness in Contemporary British Theatre.”
30- My paper entitled “Death and Howard Barker’s Concept of Theatre” is accepted to be presented at the University of York through Death and Culture II Conference on 6th- 7th Sept 2018.
37-31-The 2018 PoP Moves Conference, “Memory, Migration and Movement”, Paris from 8-9 December 2018 as attendee.
32-My paper entitled “Cultural Adaptation in Contemporary British Theatre: A New Perspective of the State of the Nation Plays” is presented in the British Academy funded conference “Contemporary European Drama in Translation on the British Stage: Exploring its absence in the context of Brexit” from January 11-12, 2019 at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London, University of London, UK.
33- My paper entitled “The Arab Spring and the New Political Trends in Iraqi Theatre of Protest” is presented at School of Arts and Humanities, Ulster University, Northern Ireland, UK via a symposium on January 10th 2019.
34-My paper "Cognitive Dissonance as a Cultural Tool in Drama Analysis" is accepted to be presented at TaPRA (Theatre & Performance Research Association)-SCUDD 2019 PG Symposium 13th March 2019 at the Faculty of English, University of Oxford, UK.
35- “Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama in Iraqi Universities: A Pedagogical Reconsideration” is accepted to be delivered at the University of Warwick, UK on the 4th of May 2019 via a conference of Sidelights on Shakespeare-‘Teaching Early Modern Drama’.
36- My paper “Theatricality of War and the New Technical Media of Representation” is accepted to be delivered in a conference at the University of Ottawa, Canada, 25-27 April 2019.
37-A Workshop in Shakespeare in Italy Summer School in Florence from July 6-19 2019.
38-The 29th annual conference of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE). The conference, on the topic of Critical Theatre Ecologies, was held in Augsburg, Germany, as an online conference, 3-6 June 2021.
39-Shakespeare Institute's online, University of Birmingham, UK, "Shakespeare Beyond Borders" event, from June 9th-11th 2021.
40-"Iraqi Theatre: A Niche in an Ecologically Political Sane Milieu" is a paper presented online via IFTR conference 2021. The theme of the conference is "Theatre Ecologies: Environment, Sustainability and Politics", held in Galway, Ireland from 12-16 July 2021.
F-Workshops and Lectures with International Universities
No. |
Lecture |
Lecturer Name |
University |
Invited and interviewed by |
Date |
1 |
Shamlet: Hamlet, Fake News, and the Burden of Interpretation |
Dr. Paul Prescott |
University of Warwick/ UK |
Dr. Majeed M. Midhin |
30/04/2020 |
2 |
Multilingualism in Theatre |
Dr. Yana Meerzon |
University of Ottawa/ Canada |
Dr. Majeed M. Midhin |
05/05/2020 |
3 |
Documentary and Subversive Theatre and Film about Refugees |
Dr. Steve Wilmer |
Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin/ Ireland |
Dr. Majeed M. Midhin |
14/05/2020 |
4 |
A Conversation with Dr. Ben Spatz |
Dr. Ben Spatz |
University of Huddersfield/UK |
Dr. Majeed M. Midhin |
09/06/2020 |
5 |
Samuel Beckett and Border Thinking |
Dr. Nicholas Johnson |
University of Dublin-Samuel Beckett Centre/Ireland |
Dr. Majeed M. Midhin |
17/05/2020 |
6 |
Decolonizing Shakespeare in Performance: The Tempest and Othello in Britain |
Dr. Robert Gordon |
Goldsmiths-University of London/UK |
Dr. Majeed M. Midhin |
19/05/2020 |
7 |
Contemporary Englishness(es): Current Trends in Writing the Nation |
Dr. Christine Berberich and Dr. Emma Schlesinger |
University of Portsmouth/UK |
Dr. Majeed M. Midhin |
01/06/2020 |
8 |
Exploring What It Is Be Human in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice |
Dr. Catherine Rosarie |
Goldsmiths-University of London/UK |
Dr. Majeed M. Midhin |
04/06/2020 |
9 |
Feminists and Feminisms: Rights, Representations, and Challenges |
Dr. Susan Bruce |
University of Keele/UK |
Dr. Majeed M. Midhin |
17/06/2020 |
10 |
An Anatomy: A Performance |
Dr. Anna Furse |
Goldsmiths-University of London/UK |
Dr. Majeed M. Midhin |
24/06/2020 |
11 |
Othello |
Dr. Paul Prescott |
University of Warwick/ UK |
Dr. Majeed M. Midhin |
25/06/2020 |
12 |
Looking Forward to Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Stage Adaptation of a Classic Dystopia |
Dr. Benjamin Poore |
University of York/UK |
Dr. Majeed M. Midhin |
26/06/2020 |
13 |
The debris of the present and futures past: Postcolonial Conflict and Cultural Memory |
Dr. Ananya Jahanara Kabir |
King's College, London/UK |
Dr. Majeed M. Midhin |
30/06/2020 |
14 |
The personal and the political in diaspora writing |
Dr. Hassan Abdulrazzak |
University of London, Imperial College, UK |
Dr. Majeed M. Midhin |
28/07/2020 |
15 |
Answers to the Questions of My 3rd Year Students in Drama at the University of Anbar |
Dr. Emma Smith |
University of Oxford/UK |
Dr. Majeed M. Midhin |
08/04/2020 |
16 |
How to Write from Divine Inspiration |
Dr. Amanda Williamson |
University of Coventry/UK |
Dr. Majeed M. Midhin |
27/04/2020 |
17 |
Twelfth Night, Identity, Desire and Love |
Dr. Timo Uotinen |
Royal Holloway-University of London, UK |
Dr. Majeed M. Midhin |
29/04/2020 |
18 |
Text VS Performance |
Prof. Dr. Johannes Birringer |
Brunel University/UK |
Dr. Majeed M. Midhin |
03/05/2020 |
19 |
How Shakespeare Engaged with English History |
Dr. Kit Heyam |
King's College, London/UK |
Dr. Majeed M. Midhin |
03/05/2020 |
20 |
Answers to the Questions of My 3rd Year Students in Drama at the University of Anbar |
Dr. Sarah Grochala |
University of London/UK |
Dr. Majeed M. Midhin |
12/05/2020 |
21 |
The Disputed Authorship of Brendan Behan's 1958 Play The Hostage |
Dr. David Clare |
University of Limerick/Ireland |
Dr. Majeed M. Midhin |
12/05/2020 |
22 |
Answers to the Questions of My 3rd Year Students in Drama at the University of Anbar |
Dr. Ralph Alan Cohen |
Mary Baldwin University/USA |
Dr. Majeed M. Midhin |
24/05/2020 |
23 |
Literary Theory |
Dr. Josh Cohen |
Goldsmiths-University of London/UK |
Dr. Majeed M. Midhin |
30/05/2020 |
24 |
Gossip, Ethics, and Victorian Novels |
Dr. Maha Jafri |
The University of the South/USA |
Dr. Majeed M. Midhin |
04/05/2020 |
25 |
Butoh |
Dr. Marie-Gabrielle Rotie |
Goldsmiths-University of London/UK |
Dr. Majeed M. Midhin |
22/06/2020 |
26 |
A Contribution to study Shakespeare for Students of English Dept. |
Emeritus Prof. Dr. Duncan Salkeld |
University of Chichester/UK |
Dr. Majeed M. Midhin |
24/06/2020 |
27 |
Contemporary Iraqi Women's Fiction of War and Lessons from my PHD Journey |
Dr. Angham Abdullah |
University of Cardiff, UK |
Dr. Majeed M. Midhin |
20/07/2020 |
28 |
Scotland and Scots: a linguistic journey |
Dr. Robert McColl Millar |
University of Aberdeen, UK |
Dr. Majeed M. Midhin |
30/07/2020 |
29 |
On Creativity |
Dr. Jonathan P. Jones |
New York University, USA |
Dr. Majeed M. Midhin |
08/08/2020 |
30 |
Hamlet |
Dr. Michael Dobson |
University of Birmingham, UK |
Dr. Majeed M. Midhin |
19/02/2021 |
31 |
My Personal Experience of Theatre Directing: Arms and the Man as an Example |
Emma Lucia |
London Drama School, UK |
Dr. Majeed M. Midhin |
27/02/2021 |
32 |
Little' Magazines and America's Twentieth-Century Revolution of Words |
Dr. Kate Hext |
University of Exeter, UK |
Dr. Majeed M. Midhin |
04/02/2021 |
33 |
Key Strategies for Postgraduate Students |
Dr. Dee Reynolds |
University of Manchester, UK |
Dr. Majeed M. Midhin |
03/03/2021 |
34 |
Why Study Arabic Shakespeare |
Dr. Margaret Litvin |
University of Boston, USA |
Dr. Majeed M. Midhin |
27/01/2021 |
35 |
How to Build a Good Relationship with Your Supervisor in the Time of Coronavirus |
Dr. Emma Brodzinski |
Royal Holloway, University of London, UK |
Dr. Majeed M. Midhin |
03/02/2021 |
36 |
The Cold War, Its Aftermath, State Hegemony and the Artists |
Dr. Aastha Gandi |
Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India |
Dr. Majeed M. Midhin |
22/12/2020 |
37 |
Indian Cinema |
Dr. Raminder Kaur |
University of Sussex, UK |
Dr. Majeed M. Midhin |
22/02/2021 |
38 |
The Lost Generation: Learning in the Time of Covid-19 |
Dr. Laura Taggett |
Lone Star College-CyFair, USA |
Dr. Majeed M. Midhin |
17/12/2020 |
39 |
The Reception of Wuthering Heights |
Dr. Kamilla Elliott |
Lancaster University, UK |
Dr. Majeed M. Midhin |
21/11/2020 |
40 |
Academic Publishing in the USA |
Dr. Marvin Carlson |
New York University, USA |
Dr. Majeed M. Midhin |
19/11/2020 |
41 |
Culture and Performance: What is Culture? What is Performance? The Performance of Race |
Dr. Clare Finburgh |
Goldsmiths University of London, UK |
Dr. Majeed M. Midhin |
03/12/2020 |
42 |
Understanding Shakespeare's Theatrical Culture |
Dr. Pascale Aebischer |
University of Exeter, UK |
Dr. Majeed M. Midhin |
22/10/2020 |
43 |
University of Anbar – Twelfth Night: Live Session with Dr Will Tosh |
Dr. Will Tosh |
Shakespeare's Globe, London |
Dr. Majeed M. Midhin |
5/5/2021 |
44 |
Hands, Alligators (or Crocodiles?), and the Invisible: Theory and Practice in Translating Children's Literature |
Dr. B. J. Epstein |
University of East Anglia, UK |
Dr. Majeed M. Midhin |
11/5/2021 |
45 |
"if we do not name ourselves, we are nothing": Women and the New York Poetry Scene at Mid-Century |
Dr. Rona Cran |
University of Birmingham, UK |
Dr. Majeed M. Midhin |
10/06/2021 |
46 |
Humor and Laughter in Irish Theatre |
Dr. Eric Weitz |
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland |
Dr. Majeed M. Midhin |
1/7/2021 |
47 |
The Ghost of Regeneration: Alexndra Badea's Points de non-retour [Quais de Seine] (2019) |
Dr. Clare Finburgh Delijani |
Goldsmiths-University of London/UK |
Dr. Majeed M. Midhin |
27/10/2020 |
48 |
The Early Modern Medea |
Dr. Katherine Heavey |
University of Glasgow |
Dr. Majeed M. Midhin |
15/05/2020 |