Ghassan Al-Jaba’i: Prison Literature in Syria After 1980 (2001)
Writing critically about oppressive governments does not necessarily lead to a jail sentence, but it very well might. Yet after prison is another story–literally. Recently, books of prison literature have emerged in the Arab world by ex-convicts who tell the harrowing stories of their lives and the prison experience through fiction and surrealism as a […]
Women Claim Islam: Creating Islamic Feminism Through Literature (Routledge, 2001)
This provocative monograph addresses the ways in which Arab women writers are using Islam to empower themselves, and theorizes the conditions that have made the appearance of these new voices possible. Published Reviews: China Reading Weekly March 20, 2014 Muslimah Media Watch Jan 11, 2012 worldfeminism.com/percevalislam.htm 2004 renaissance.com.pk/octbore2y2.html Feminist Theory August 2010 11/121 Qalandar, October […]
Hayati, My Life: A Novel (Arabic Translation, 2004)
Translated by Lina Sinjav, 2004 “This compelling, polyphonic novel gives voice to the experiences of three generations of Palestinian women whose lives are torn apart by war, rape, dispossession, and poverty.” Booklist: “A professor of Arabic literature has written a vivid and fiercely tender story of three generations of Palestinian women whose voices tell of […]