Middle Eastern Literature (2000)
With Western influences and increasing modernity in the Middle East, the concept of literature expanded to include previously unexplored genres. Beginning with European colonization, cooke chronicles the history of Middle Eastern literature and how it was molded into what it is today to include fields such as short stories, novels, drama, and poetry. Middle Eastern […]
Living in Truth (2000)
This article highlights some strong similarities between modern day Syria and post-Soviet Eastern Europe in the political propaganda and the way Syrian intellectuals are struggling to “live in truth”: a term created by a Czech dissident meaning to assume “responsibility to and for the whole.” Living in Truth
Hayati, My Life: A Novel (Syracuse University Press, 2000)
“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 loss and sorrow. In 1948, […]