{"title":"Mutual othering: Islam, modernity, and the politics of cross-cultural encounters in pre-colonial Moroccan and European travel writing","authors":"Mbarek Sryfi","doi":"10.1080/1475262x.2019.1697508","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1475262x.2019.1697508","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53920,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Literatures","volume":"59 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73724127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Muḥammad Khuḍayyir from Saddam Hussein to the gardens of the south: writing the self in postcolonial Basra","authors":"F. Caiani, Catherine Cobham","doi":"10.1080/1475262x.2019.1742447","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1475262x.2019.1742447","url":null,"abstract":"In 2001 Saddam Hussein called on Iraqis to write novels inspired by the First Gulf War. Muḥammad Khuḍayyir (b. 1942) responded to the presidential invitation by writing Kurrāsat Kānūn (2001, the Wi...","PeriodicalId":53920,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Literatures","volume":"30 1","pages":"1-22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86479624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Notes on the flesh","authors":"Diya Abdo","doi":"10.1080/1475262x.2019.1697505","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1475262x.2019.1697505","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53920,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Literatures","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84576762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Metapoesis in the Arabic tradition: from modernists to Muḥdathūn","authors":"Wen-chin Ouyang","doi":"10.1080/1475262x.2019.1697507","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1475262x.2019.1697507","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53920,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Literatures","volume":"84 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80192863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Diasporic slippages: accent and dialect in translation","authors":"Dima Ayoub","doi":"10.1080/1475262x.2019.1744848","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1475262x.2019.1744848","url":null,"abstract":"This paper takes up the question of linguistic multiplicity in Arabic to include accents and dialects as mechanisms that disrupt a cohesive logic of language in the postcolonial landscape. Through ...","PeriodicalId":53920,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Literatures","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74064244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How do you say “Epigram” in Arabic? Literary history at the limits of comparison","authors":"M. Keegan","doi":"10.1080/1475262X.2019.1573539","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1475262X.2019.1573539","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53920,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Literatures","volume":"84 1","pages":"251 - 252"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76369059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mullā ˁAbbūd Al-Karkhī (1861–1946), vernacular poet of early twentieth century Baghdad","authors":"C. Holes","doi":"10.1080/1475262X.2019.1595818","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1475262X.2019.1595818","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Mullā ˁAbbūd Al-Karkhī (1861–1946) was a prominent vernacular poet of Iraq during the years of the British Mandate. He wrote entirely in the colloquial and his fiercely critical and highly satirical poetry deals mainly with the duplicity of the British, the social realities of the Iraq of his time, and his resentment of foreign intrusion in Iraq's affairs. Al-Karkhī was a staunch Iraqi nationalist who stands at the beginning of a line of other Iraqi vernacular poets who have been similarly critical of the political and social realities of the Iraq of their time, notably ˁAzīz ˁAlī (1911–95) and ˁAbbās Jījān (1951–).","PeriodicalId":53920,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Literatures","volume":"13 1","pages":"225 - 239"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79363042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"She is no Desdemona: a Syrian woman in Samar Attar’s Shakespearean subversions","authors":"Hussein A. Alhawamdeh","doi":"10.1080/1475262X.2019.1573544","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1475262X.2019.1573544","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the significance of appropriating three plays by William Shakespeare—Macbeth (1606), Romeo and Juliet (1597), and Othello (1604)—in Samar Attar’s Lina: A Portrait of a Damascene Girl. The Syrian novelist, Attar, finds in Shakespeare powerful sites for the expression of exile, rejection of sentimental love, and resistance of patriarchy in Arab societies. Attar’s reading of Shakespeare is both constructive and deconstructive. Her novel shows simultaneously identification with and challenges to the British Bard. The main female protagonist, Lina, renounces Shakespeare’s dramatization of the concept of love in Romeo and Juliet and Othello, which requires the female submission to the authority of the male lover. In Macbeth, Attar identifies with its concepts of exile and homeland when one’s country becomes polluted by political conspiracies and chaos. Lina, in Attar’s novel, is a new Arab Desdemona/Juliet, who is subversive and revolutionary to the atrocities of gender marginalization.","PeriodicalId":53920,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Literatures","volume":"1 1","pages":"154 - 170"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76173921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}