Elisabetta Benigni

Prison nostalgia and the collapse of emancipatory futures: Women‘s writings from the Egyptian prison of al-Qanāṭir al-Ḫayriyya

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During the 1960s and 1970s, many intellectuals and ordinary citizens in Egypt were imprisoned and detained for political reasons. Many of them wrote a...

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This article promises a compelling and nuanced examination of women's prison writings from Egypt, specifically focusing on memoirs from the al-Qanāṭir...

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Maria Elena Paniconi

Poetics of commitment: Raḍwā ʿĀšūr reads Ġassān Kanafānī’s fiction in al-Ṭarīq ilā al-ḫayma al-uḫrā (‘The way to the other tent,’ 1981) and al-Ṭanṭūriyya (‘The woman from Tantoura,’ 2010)

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This article aims discusses how Raḍwā ʿĀšūr (1946-2014), an Egyptian academic, novelist and activist, critically analyzed and subsequently intertextua...

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This article proposes an insightful examination of Egyptian author Raḍwā ʿĀšūr’s complex relationship with Palestinian writer Ġassān Kanafānī. Focusin...

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Lorenzo Casini

The politics of imagining the West in the Egyptian novel: Resignifications of the European woman trope from the 1960s to the Arab Spring

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This article is a study in the poetics and politics of imagining the West in modern Arabic literature. It focuses on the deployment of the European wo...

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This article promises a compelling and timely intervention into the study of modern Arabic literature, specifically the Egyptian novel, by examining t...

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Stephan Milich

Understanding political violence in culture: Critical reflections on trauma theory and contemporary Arabic literature

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This article deals with the question of adequate approaches to the study of trauma representations in contemporary Arabic literature.  After a cr...

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This article proposes a timely and critical intervention into the study of trauma representations within contemporary Arabic literature. By directly a...

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Arianna Tondi

Experimenting with Ṭabaqāt and Muʿğam: A history of modern Egypt through the biographies of ordinary citizens in Ḥadīṯ al-ṣabāḥ wa-l-masāʾ by Nağīb Maḥfūẓ

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Inspired by the search for an authentic literature, several Arab writers have experimented with their literary tradition after the cultural turn that...

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This paper presents a compelling and timely analysis of Nağīb Maḥfūẓ’s *Ḥadīṯ al-ṣabāḥ wa-l-masāʾ*, framing it as a profound literary experiment roote...

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Monica Ruocco

Telling the real: Literary reportage in contemporary Arabic literature

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The objective of this paper is to delineate the recent evolution and innovations of literary reportage in contemporary Arabic literature, a genre of c...

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This paper proposes a timely and pertinent examination of literary reportage within contemporary Arabic literature. The abstract clearly outlines its...

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Daniela Potenza

Tensions of discourse in Muḏakkirāt miṯliyya by Fāṭima al-Zahrā’ Amzkār: A sensational example of gendered representation through fictional autobiography

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Fāṭima al-Zahrā’ Amzkār’s debut novel, Muḏakkirāt miṯliyya (‘Memoirs of a Lesbian,’ 2022), caused a scandal in Morocco when it was banned from Rabat’s...

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This article promises a timely and insightful examination of Fāṭima al-Zahrā’ Amzkār’s controversial debut novel, *Muḏakkirāt miṯliyya*, whose ban fro...

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Greta Sala

Comment écrire la dévastation ? Documenter, filtrer et réélaborer le réel dans Bawwābāt arḍ al-ʻadam et al-Maššā’a de Samar Yazbik

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The upheavals that have shaken Syria since 2011 have profoundly impacted the evolution of the literary sphere. This is particularly evident when exami...

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The article, "Comment écrire la dévastation ? Documenter, filtrer et réélaborer le réel dans Bawwābāt arḍ al-ʻadam et al-Maššā’a de Samar Yazbik," pro...

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Marianne Kamal

Narrating trauma in women‘s literature: Exploring South Sudan and Darfur in Arwāḥ Iddū (‘Edo’s Souls’) by Istīlā Qāytānū and ‘Tears of the desert’ by Ḥalīmah Bašīr

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This article examines the lived experiences of women in South Sudan and Darfur, the coping mechanisms they developed in response to wartime trauma, an...

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The article, "Narrating trauma in women’s literature: Exploring South Sudan and Darfur in Arwāḥ Iddū (‘Edo’s Souls’) by Istīlā Qāytānū and ‘Tears of t...

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Naglaa Waly

Arab writers: writing amid crises

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The title, "Arab writers: writing amid crises," immediately signals a highly relevant, timely, and critically important area of study. The challenges...

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