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Jennifer da Silva Gramiani Celeste
O LEITOR E A LEITURA 'NA' E 'DA' CULTURA DIGITAL
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Para além dos muitos suportes propiciados pelo advento das novas tecnologias digitais, as possibilidades de leitura na contemporaneidade conectada tam...

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This article proposes a timely and relevant exploration into the evolving landscape of reading practices within the digital culture. Recognizing the p...

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Naglaa Waly
When Maḥfūẓ wrote about the 1967 defeat: (Re)reading Taḥt al-miẓalla (1969) and al-Ḥubb taḥt al-maṭar (1973, 2023)
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The 1967 defeat remains one of the most dreadful moments in modern Arab history. Rapid and violent, it shook the foundations of the political order an...

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This article proposes a timely and compelling re-examination of Nāgīb Maḥfūẓ's engagement with the devastating 1967 Arab-Israeli War, a moment that pr...

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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)
Literature

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
Literature

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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