College of Basic Education

The College of Basic Education at the University of Mosul discussed a master’s thesis on (Expatriate Poetry: An Approach to Environmental Criticism) on Monday, September 8, 2025, in the (College Council) Hall of the College of Basic Education. The Dean of the College, Assistant Professor Dr. Muhammad Yunus Al-Jarisi, participated in it.
The thesis, submitted by the student (Wussan Hani Muhammad Ghazal) from the Department of (Arabic Language), aimed to study diaspora poetry in light of environmental criticism to explore and monitor representations of environmental awareness in models of this poetry.
The study addressed several axes distributed over an introduction and three chapters. The introduction dealt with diaspora poetry, its origins and characteristics, as well as the nature of environmental criticism, with a general presentation of the selected sample, which included three poets as a sample, namely (Gibran Khalil Gibran, Elia Abu Madi, and Mikhail Naimy).
The first chapter was entitled (Representations of the Diaspora Environmental Space) and included two topics devoted to time and place as influential elements in environmental awareness. While the second chapter came under the title (Nostalgia and Environmental Textualization), the study dealt with two topics, the first was devoted to the phenomenon of withdrawal into memories, while
the second was devoted to the phenomenon of environmental dreams and ambition.
The third chapter dealt with the manifestations of environmental alienation in two topics, the first was devoted to cultural alienation, while the second was devoted to national alienation.
The study reached many results, including that the studied poets possessed an environmental awareness that constituted a different phenomenon for them than others as a result of the difference in environment and place and the feeling of alienation and living in a new environment different from the mother environment in which they grew up.
The discussion committee was chaired by Professor Dr. Ghanem Saleh Sultan from the College of Humanities, with the membership of Assistant Professor Dr. Salem Najm Abdullah, Assistant Professor Dr. Muhammad Yunus Al-Jeraisy, and Professor Dr. Jassim Muhammad Jassim as a member and supervisor

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