Dr. Saima Bashir
Lecturer
PhD English literature
Research Supervision Capacity
About Me
Dr. Saima Bashir holds a PhD in English Literature with research focused on postcolonial studies, cultural identity, and transnational literary discourse. Her doctoral work, "Amin Maalouf’s Celebration of the Levant as a Code of Deterritorialization," examines how literature challenges fixed notions of territory and identity through representations of the cosmopolitan Levant. Her academic interests include diaspora studies, cultural hybridity, and contemporary literary theory, with particular attention to the works of Amin Maalouf. She is dedicated to teaching and research that explore the complexities of identity, culture, and globalization in modern literature.
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Research Publication
1. Saima Bashir, Sohail Ahmad Saeed. 2024. “The Levant as a code of Deterritorialization for Amin Maalouf.” Cogent Arts & Humanities 11. https://doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2024.2302640
2. Saima Bashir, Sohail Ahmad Saeed. 2023. “Dynamics of Reminiscence and the Pilgrimage of Migration in Amin Maalouf’s Rock of Tanios.” Pakistan Languages and Humanities Review 7. https://doi.org/10.47205/plhr.2023(7-II)34
3. Saima Bashir, Sohail Ahmad Saeed. 2024. “Abdel Rahman Munif’s Cities of Salt as a Postmodern Allegorical Narrative.” Pakistan Social Sciences Review 8. https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2024(8-II)41
4. Saima Bashir, Sohail Ahmad Saeed. 2021. “Contemporaneity of Allegorical Arab Minor Literature.” Pakistan Languages and Humanities Review 5. 10.47205/plhr.2021(5-II)1.45
5. Saima Bashir, Sohail Ahmad Saeed. 2019. “Contemporary Arab Petrofiction: Opening up Biopolitical Spaces for the Dispossessed.” Postcolonial Interventions 4. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3264972
6. Saima Bashir, Sohail Ahmad Saeed, Ali Hamza. 2025. “Effects of Orwell’s Time Period and Cultural Situations in Animal Farm.” Pakistan Social Sciences Review 9. https://www.ojs.pssr.org.pk/journal/article/view/927
7. Saima Bashir, Shahzaib Hassan, Sohail Ahmad Saeed. 2024. “Kamala’s Guidance and Duality in Siddhartha’s Individuation: A Jungian Psychological Analysis of Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha an Indian Tale.” Pakistan Languages and Humanities Review 8. https://doi.org/10.47205/plhr.2024(8-IV)15
8. Saima Bashir, Ghulam Abbas, Sohail Ahmad Saeed. 2025. “Shadows of the Past: Memory and the Shaping of History in Wolf Hall.” Pakistan Social Sciences Review 9. https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2025(9-I)38
9. Saima Bashir, Muzamil Ishaq. 2024. “Rooted in Loss: Exploring Generational Trauma through a Postcolonial Lens in The Island of Missing Trees.” Annals of Human and Social Sciences 5. https://doi.org/10.35484/ahss.2024(5-IV)14
10. Saima Bashir, Malik Muhammad Tanveer. 2024. “From Reluctance to Rebellion: A Foucauldian Analysis of Bina Shah’s Before She Sleeps.” Journal of Development and Social Sciences 5. https://doi.org/10.47205/jdss.2024(5-IV)19
11. Saima Bashir, Bismia Fatima. 2024. “Childhood Traumas versus Marital Dilemmas: A Feminine Psychological Analysis of Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train.” Annals of Human and Social Sciences 5. https://doi.org/10.35484/ahss.2024(5-IV)22
12. Saima Bashir, Nimra Yasmeen. 2025. “Uzma Aslam Khan’ Trespassing: A Postcolonial Ecofeminist Analysis.” Pakistan Languages and Humanities Review 9. https://doi.org/10.47205/plhr.2025(9-I)18
13. Saima Bashir, Jafar Hussain. 2025. “A Postcolonial Study of the Socio-Political Scenarios in Twilight in Delhi and The Murder of Aziz Khan.” Annals of Human and Social Sciences 6. https://doi.org/10.35484/ahss.2025(6-I)18
14. Zuha Najeeb, Saima Bashir, Fahad Saleem. 2024. “Attachment as a Key in the Development of Personality: A Psychoanalytical Interpretation of Emma Donoghue’s Room.” Journal of Development and Social Sciences 5. https://doi.org/10.47205/jdss.2024(5-II)43
15. Momal Masood Malik, Saima Bashir. 2025. “The Masks We Wear: False Self as a Response to Existential Isolation in No Longer Human.” Pakistan Languages and Humanities Review 9. https://doi.org/10.47205/plhr.2025(9-II)01
16. Muhammad Ehtsham, Shahid Hussain Mir, Hyder Ali Memon, Saima Bashir, Syeda Nadia Shah, Abu Hurrairah Abbasi, Sohail Ahmad. 2023. “Measuring The Negative Effects Of Social Media Languages On Students’ English Academic Writing Skills In Pakistan: A Comparative Study.” Journal of Namibian Studies: History Politics Culture 34. https://doi.org/10.59670/jns.v34i.3062
17. Saima Bashir, Sohail Ahmad Saeed. 2025. “Leo Africanus: a reflection of Amin Maalouf’s deterritorialized migrant self.” British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies/Routledge 1. https://doi.org/10.1080/13530194.2025.2493234
18. Syeda Mashal Bukhari, Saima Bashir. 2025. “Striving for Survival: An Existential Feminist Analysis of Nawal El-Saadawi's Rebellious Women in the Selected Texts.” Journal of Development and Social Sciences 6. https://doi.org/10.47205/jdss.2025(6-II)24
19. Aneesa Rameen, Saima Bashir. 2025. “Love, Loss, and Liberation: Tracing Feminine Trauma and Political Awakening in Against the Loveless World.” Pakistan Languages and Humanities Review 9. https://doi.org/10.47205/plhr.2025(9-II)18
20. Bismia Fatima, Saima Bashir. 2025. “Traumas leading to Dilemmas: A Feminine Psychological Analysis of Alex Michaelides’ The Silent Patient.” Pakistan Languages and Humanities Review 9. https://doi.org/10.47205/plhr.2025(9-III)03
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