Although there is a history of rich, complex, and variegated representations of female illness
in Western literature over the last two centuries, the sick female body has traditionally …

This essay focuses on the representational relationship between disability and Islamic
fundamentalism in select contemporary postcolonial literary texts by Arab authors. The …

This paper discusses the discourse of female jihad in contemporary Karbala narratives of
Shi'i Islam, specifically Twelver Shi'is. It argues that a gender-dynamic transformation has …

[A] nyone speaking about 'Islam'[should] remember what any beginning student of literature
knows: that the writing or reading of texts about human reality brings into play many more …

This essay explores the material, phenomenological and political meaning of the Syrian
corpse and the question of its dignity as represented in a series of media and visual outputs …

This essay is the first examination of the literary output of the Lebanese political party and
militia Hizbullah. It examines a series of little-known fiction and non-fiction texts including …

In Palestinian Ghassan Kanafani's novella Rijal fi al-Shams (Men in the Sun; 1962),
considered one of the seminal texts in modern Arabic literature, we briefly encounter the …

Recently, a prominent Shakespeare scholar defined religious faith thus:“Faith in God should
be constant, certain, and absolute, not erratic or optional.” He contrasted the ambivalent …

This essay examines the trope of the decapitated, severed head as it appears in a range of
works produced by three emigrant Iraqi artists: Afifa Aleiby, Baldin Ahmad and Ahmed …

This paper offers a critical reflection on the play I Am Waiting for You [Wasafuli Al-Sabr]
which was written by the author and directed by Lina Abyad. Based on extensive interviews …