Arabic novel

This work examines western characters at the intersection of coloniality, gender, and modernity in Arab contemporary novels. Westerners visiting the Arab world in Aswāt by Egyptian Suleiman Fayyād, I, the Divine: A novel in First Chapters by Lebanese Rabih Alameddine, Maryam al …

During the second half of the twentieth century nationalist movements in the Middle East expressed the aspirations of colonized peoples. Revolutions for national liberation displaced communities and disrupted cosmopolitan patterns of co-existence. Nations imposed boundaries at o…