Malak Abdelkhalek

Malak Abdelkhalek has recently completed her MA in Comparative Literature at King’s College London. Her research languages are Arabic, French, and English. Her dissertation titled ‘The Centres and Peripheries of Surrealism: France, Egypt, and the Spaces in Between’ provided a re-reading of Surrealism as a transnational movement, and demonstrated that Egyptian surrealists based in Egypt and in France brought the movement to closer to its intended end, therefore repositioning the importance placed on European and French Surrealisms in comparison to Egyptian Surrealism. This dissertation encompasses many of Malak’s research interests - the avant garde, gender, colonialism, and post-colonialism.