Baghdad Burning: Women Write War in Iraq (2007)
Iraqis are no strangers to war and unrest; it has become a way of life. Throughout these past thirty years of war young feminist women in Iraq have been documenting this way of life and the horrors of war and more modernly through blogs so the whole world can be exposed to the wartorn realities […]
Dying to be Free: Wilderness Writing from Lebanon, Arabia and Libya (2007)
Even after the independence movements that brought autonomy to Arab states previously under colonial rule, the endemic violence of tyranny and revolution continued. The domestic violence that accompanied this civil strife was chronicled by feminist writers linking male violence on the frontier and at home. This article analyzes three stories of magical realism that emphasize […]
Dissident Syria. Making Oppositional Arts Official (Duke University Press 2007)
From 1970 until his death in 2000, Hafiz Asad ruled Syria with an iron fist. His regime controlled every aspect of daily life. Seeking to preempt popular unrest, Asad sometimes facilitated the expression of anti-government sentiment by appropriating the work of artists and writers, turning works of protest into official agitprop. Syrian dissidents were forced […]