... of Dignity and Poetry›139 resistance operated before that date, I zero in on one key figure of both moments, the poet Mohamed Sgaier Awlad Ahmed. Indeed, although there was a multitude of poems and poets for and about the revolution, Awlad Ahmed remains unique in maintaining his poetic...

....” A viable candidate in this context may very well simply be “poetry.” Nonetheless, when Omri tell us that the Tunisian poet Mohamed Sgaier Awlad Ahmed’s horizon is not to represent the Tunisian human but humanity and that his work is to display the role of poetry in the process of human...

... throughout the Mahfouz corpus, in such novels as Awlad haratina (The Children of the Alley), al- Qāhira al-Jadīda (New Cairo), ḵan al-ḵalīlī, al-Maraya (Mirrors), at-Tariq (Search), ash-Shahhādh (The Beggar), Malḥamāt al-harāfish (The Hara- fish), and Riḥlāt ibn Fattūma (The Journey of Ibn...