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Dr. Marielle Risse

  • Dr. Marielle Risse
    • Biography
    • CV
    • Contact
  • Research on Oman
    • Generosity, gift giving, and gift avoiding in southern Oman
    • An Ethnographic Discussion of Folk Tales from Southern Oman
    • Cultural Refraction: Using Travel Writing, Anthropology and Fiction to Understand the Culture of Southern Arabia
    • Photos – unknown photographer
  • Teaching Literature
    • Selected Bibliography: Primary and Secondary Texts for Literature Teachers on the Arabian Peninsula
    • Frosty Cliffs, Frosty Aunt and Sandy Beaches: Teaching “Aurora Leigh” in Oman
    • Using Local Voices in Literature Classrooms
    • Favorite Poems
      • Poems – “Finding Poems for my Students” by Mohja Kahf
      • Poems – “Locals” by James Lasdun
      • Poems – “Small Comfort” by Katha Pollitt
      • Poems – “God Says Yes To Me” by Kaylin Haught
      • Poems – “Did I Miss Anything?” by Tom Wayman
      • Poems – “Football” by Louis Jenkin
  • Essays
    • Thesiger as Accurate and “Participant Observer” in Southern Arabia
    • Perfume: The Great Healer
    • The Case of the Missing Mango – 2011
    • Reading Alone: E-Readers Arrive in a Small Town in the Middle East – 2014
  • Musing

Favorite Poems

Finding Poems for my Students – Mohja Kahf

Locals – James Lasdun

Small Comfort – Katha Pollitt

God Says Yes To Me – Kaylin Haught

Did I Miss Anything? – Tom Wayman

Football – Louis Jenkins

 

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Come From Away

Dr. Marielle Risse

Recent Posts

  • Back from Ubar or What to Read if You Insist on Staying Home (2004)
  • I will be presenting at the Maritime Exploration and Memory Conference, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England – Sept. 2018
  • photo – Hussein BaOmar
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  • photo – Hussein BaOmar

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Photographs by Hussein BaOmar

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