The combination of classroom-friendly essays, to guide students through the set novels on Anglo-Arab literature courses, and sophisticated critical analyses of the major Anglo-Arab novelists for advanced scholars make this the ultimate, one-stop resource.
Opening up the field of diasporic Anglo-Arab literature to critical debate, this companion spans from the first Arab novel in 1911 to the resurgence of the Anglo-Arabic novel in the last 20 years. There are chapters on authors such as Ameen Rihani, Ahdaf Soueif and Waguih Ghali,…
Mahjar literature refers to the work of Arab writers who relocated, either permanently or temporarily, to the Americas in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In Arabic, mahjar means “place of immigration.” Although the term “Mahjar literature” originally referred …
Shafīq al-Maʿlūf (d. 1976) was one of the most important poets of the Southern Mahjar (Arab immigrant writers in South America) . He was the son of the distinguished historian and man of letters ʿĪsā l-Maʿlūf (d. 1956), brother of fellow Mahjar poets Fawzī (d. 1930) and Riyāḍ (d…