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7 results in Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature

Gender, Nation, and the Arabic Novel
  • Egypt, 1892-2008
  • Hoda Elsadda
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    10 October 2026
  • A nuanced understanding of literary imaginings of masculinity and femininity in the Egyptian novel.

    Gender studies in Arabic literature have become equated with women's writing, leaving aside the possibility of a radical rethinking of the Arabic literary canon and Arab cultural history. While the 'woman question' in the Arabic novel has received considerable attention, the 'male question' has gone largely unnoticed. Now, Hoda Elsadda bucks that trend.

    Foregrounding voices that have been marginalised alongside canonical works, she engages with new directions in the novel tradition.

Gibran Khalil Gibran as Arab World Literature
  • Ghazouane Arslane
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    23 January 2026
    Print publication:
    31 August 2024
  • This monograph studies the Arab mahjari (émigré) writer Gibran Khalil Gibran (Kahlil Gibran) by examining his oeuvre as bilingual Arabic literature beyond biographical and culturalist approaches. It situates Gibran within his worldly contexts to unveil and analyse how the particular and the universal dialectically intersect in his multifarious work, including poetry, short stories, essays, plays and letters. What emerges is a post-religious poet who is both modern and critical of modernity, a creative but anxious bilingual writer, and a critical-nationalist intellectual embedded in the nahda or Arab renaissance. In its situated close readings of Gibran's work in both languages and across genres and contexts, the book reveals what is both absent and absented in its Anglo-American reception, demonstrating that there is much more to Gibran than his famous book 'The Prophet'. It also probes this reception alongside its Arabic counterpart, highlighting and interrogating the multiple conditions of reading that have produced different functions of Gibran.

Gendering Civil War

Contemporary Arab Women's Life Writing and the Politics of Resistance
  • Hiyem Cheurfa
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    17 November 2023
    Print publication:
    31 March 2023
  • In the context of twenty-first century Arab uprisings, women invoke the complexity of their experiences as citizens, revolutionaries, women and writers through a range of narrative strategies. Autobiographical discourses that emerge as part of national revolutionary struggles make audible Arab women's voices and experiences, foregrounding women as active social and political agents and redefining conventions of self-representation and narration.

    Drawing on autobiographical and postcolonial theories, Contemporary Arab Women's Life Writing and the Politics of Resistance examines contemporary Arab women's life writing as sites for the articulation of resistance to interlocking power structures and sociocultural and representational norms. Looking comparatively at subgenres of memoir, auto-portrait, testimony, diary and digital life writing across different linguistic and national contexts, this book explores why resistance is important when writing about the self for Arab women and how it is articulated through experimental formal and thematic approaches to the autobiographical genre.

Latin American and Arab Literature
  • Transcontinental Exchanges
  • Tahia Abdel Nasser
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    18 October 2023
    Print publication:
    30 November 2022
  • Since the nineteenth-century, Arab migration from the Ottoman Empire to Latin America and Latin American travel to the Arab world has created transcontinental routes - and in the late twentieth-century, the translation of Latin American classics into Arabic flourished in the Arab world. Drawing on Latin American and Arabic novels, travelogues, memoirs, short stories and chronicles from Cuba, Colombia, Mexico, Guatemala, Egypt, Lebanon and Iraq, Tahia Abdel Nasser shows how cultural exchange between Latin America and the Arab world cemented historical and diplomatic ties. She also explores how a new cadre of men of letters - poets, writers and intellectuals - shaped Arab Latin American encounters in the late twentieth-century.

Arabic Exile Literature in Europe
  • Defamiliarizing Forced Migration
  • Johanna Sellman
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    06 June 2023
    Print publication:
    31 October 2022
  • Since the 1990s, Arabic exile literature in Europe has increasingly become a literature written from the perspective of refugees, asylum seekers, undocumented migrants and others who are situated outside normatively defined citizenship. In this book, Johanna Sellman analyses the changing aesthetic and political dimensions of Arabic exile literature and demonstrates how frameworks such as east-west cultural encounters, political commitment and modernist understandings of exile - which were dominant in twentieth-century Arabic exile literature - have been giving way to writing that explores the dynamics of forced migration and the liminal spaces of borders and borderlands.

The Modern Arabic Bible
  • Translation, Dissemination and Literary Impact
  • Rana Issa
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    02 June 2023
    Print publication:
    31 January 2023
  • This innovative study compares nineteenth-century Arabic translations of the Bible to determine how it emerged as a foundational text of Arab modernity. Bible translation gained global traction through the work of Anglophone Christian missionaries, who made an attempt at synchronising translated Bibles in world languages by laying down strict guidelines and supervising the processes of translation and dissemination. By engaging with the intellectual beginnings of two local translators, Butrus al-Bustani (1819-1883) and Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq (1804-1887), as well as their subsequent contributions to Arabic language and literature, this book questions to what extent they complied with the missionaries' strategy in practice. Based on documents from the archives of Bible societies that tell the story of two key nahda versions of the text, we come to understand how colonial pressure was secondary to the process of incorporating the Bible into the nahda project of rethinking Arabic.