Moussa Pourya Asl

Moussa Pourya AslMoussa Pourya Asl is a Senior Lecturer in literary studies at Universiti Sains Malaysia, where he also obtained his PhD (English Literature) from School of Humanities. His primary research area is in diasporic literature and gender and cultural studies, and he has published several articles in the above-mentioned areas in Women's Studies, Gender, Place & Culture, Asian Ethnicity, American Studies in Scandinavia, Cogent: Arts & Humanities, Gema Online, and 3L.

Publications

Handbook of Research on Artificial Intelligence Applications in Literary Works and Social Media
Pantea Keikhosrokiani, Moussa Pourya Asl. © 2023. 376 pages.
Artificial intelligence has been utilized in a diverse range of industries as more people and businesses discover its many uses and applications. A current field of study that...
Urban Poetics and Politics in Contemporary South Asia and the Middle East
Moussa Pourya Asl. © 2023. 330 pages.
In today’s world, it is crucial to understand how cities and urban spaces operate in order for them to continue to develop and improve. To ensure cities thrive, further study on...
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence for the Analytics of Literary Works and Social Media: A Review
Pantea Keikhosrokiani, Moussa Pourya Asl. © 2023. 17 pages.
Advancement of artificial intelligence has opened new horizons for the analytics of literary texts and social media. However, the current studies are very limited, and there is...
An Artificial Intelligence Application of Theme and Space in Life Writings of Middle Eastern Women: A Topic Modelling and Sentiment Analysis Approach
Nurul Najiha Jafery, Pantea Keikhosrokiani, Moussa Pourya Asl. © 2023. 17 pages.
Recently, the revolutionary transformations in social and political landscapes as well as the remarkable developments in artificial intelligence reinforced the importance of...
A Machine Learning Approach to the Analytics of Representations of Violence in Khaled Hosseini's Novels
Abdikadir Hussein Elmi, Pantea Keikhosrokiani, Moussa Pourya Asl. © 2023. 32 pages.
Over the past two decades, literary works from Afghanistan have sought to depict the extensive and increasing level of violence directed against individuals and communities. This...
Artificial Intelligence Framework for Opinion Mining of Netizen Readers' Reviews of Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things
Pantea Keikhosrokiani, Moussa Pourya Asl, Kah Em Chu, Nur Ain Nasuha Anuar. © 2023. 25 pages.
In recent years, South-Asian literature in English has experienced a surge of newfound love and popularity both in the local and the global market. In this regard, Arundhati...
Artificial Intelligence Applications in Literary Works: Emotion Extraction and Classification of Mohsin Hamid's Moth Smoke
Annuur Farahhim Zainol, Pantea Keikhosrokiani, Moussa Pourya Asl, Nur Ain Nasuha Anuar. © 2023. 21 pages.
The British Pakistani writer, Mohsin Hamid's debut novel, Moth Smoke (2000), has garnered conflicting responses from readers across the globe. Over the past few years and...
Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights Activism: A Case Study of Boochani's No Friend But the Mountains and His Tweets on Justice and Equality
Chun Keat Kng, Pantea Keikhosrokiani, Moussa Pourya Asl. © 2023. 28 pages.
Behrouz Boochani, the Kurdish-Iranian author of No Friends But the Mountains, has been using social media platforms such as Twitter to speak up against social injustice and human...
Dystopia and Heterotopia: Poetics and Politics of Space in Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns
Jason Tan Jian Wei, Moussa Pourya Asl. © 2023. 19 pages.
The traditional classification of city spaces in Afghan literature in English as either utopian or dystopian overlooks the possibility of other spaces existing within the same...
Virtual World and the Teaching of Literature Studies in IR 4.0 Era: Learning Behaviour and Challenges of Malaysian University Students
Saravanan P. Veeramuthu, Mohamad Luthfi Abdul Rahman, Moussa Pourya Asl, Manonmani Devi M. A. R. Annamalai. © 2023. 19 pages.
The rapid innovations in computer sciences and the emergence of technologies such as virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), metaverse, and similar cyberspaces have greatly...
Handbook of Research on Opinion Mining and Text Analytics on Literary Works and Social Media
Pantea Keikhosrokiani, Moussa Pourya Asl. © 2022. 462 pages.
Opinion mining and text analytics are used widely across numerous disciplines and fields in today’s society to provide insight into people’s thoughts, feelings, and stances. This...
Gender, Place, and Identity of South Asian Women
Moussa Pourya Asl. © 2022. 302 pages.
In the past century, South Asia underwent fundamental cultural, social, and political changes as many countries progressed from colonial dominations through nationalist movements...
Text Analytics Model to Identify the Connection Between Theme and Sentiment in Literary Works: A Case Study of Iraqi Life Writings
Nurul Najiha Jafery, Pantea Keikhosrokiani, Moussa Pourya Asl. © 2022. 18 pages.
The rapid advancements in data science techniques and approaches have influenced disciplines, such as literary studies, that are particularly engaged in qualitative text...
Opinion Mining and Text Analytics of Literary Reader Responses: A Case Study of Reader Responses to KL Noir Volumes in Goodreads Using Sentiment Analysis and Topic
Nikmatul Husna Binti Suhendra, Pantea Keikhosrokiani, Moussa Pourya Asl, Xian Zhao. © 2022. 49 pages.
Text mining is an important field of study that has proved beneficial for scholars of various disciplines. Literary scholars use text mining to examine the data produced by...
Opinion Mining and Text Analytics of Reader Reviews of Yoko Ogawa's The Housekeeper and the Professor in Goodreads
Nurfatin Binti Sofian, Pantea Keikhosrokiani, Moussa Pourya Asl. © 2022. 23 pages.
With the development of online social network platforms and social cataloging applications, large amounts of datasets are being generated daily in the form of users' reviews...
Sentiment Analysis of the Harry Potter Series Using a Lexicon-Based Approach
Md Habib Al Mamun, Pantea Keikhosrokiani, Moussa Pourya Asl, Nur Ain Nasuha Anuar, Nurfarah Hadira Abdul Hadi, Thasnim Humida. © 2022. 29 pages.
The objective of this chapter is to conduct a sentiment analysis of the Harry Potter novel series written by British author J.K. Rowling. The text of the series is collected from...
Rewriting of Gender and Sexuality in Tanwi Nandini Islam's Bright Lines: A Cixousian Approach
Nur Ain Nasuha binti Anuar, Moussa Pourya Asl. © 2022. 21 pages.
This chapter seeks to explore the Bangladeshi diasporic writer Tanwi Nandini Islam's debut novel Bright Lines (2015) to study the subtle nuances of (female) identity and...