... Ahmed Alaidy Alaa Al Aswany Naguib Mahfouz Nasserism Sadat era This article considers the narrative structures of Egyptian novels of the 1990s and the first decade of the twenty-first century. By doing so, I argue that these novels represent a certain return to realism. Insofar as they depict...

... the opposition leader is teleported into the pages of James's novel, he undergoes a doubled reincorporation. In the background of the narration, he retains his own name and does only what he did in history books, but in the foreground, he also becomes Peter Nasser, who retains Seaga's Lebanese ethnicity (called...

... Thiong'o and Ursula K. Heise, I selected papers by Antoine Traisnel, Leila Mansouri, Nasser Mufti, and Mario Ortiz-Robles from the rich diversity of those delivered. As his title suggests, Ngũgĩ's paper (which appears here in lecture form) offers a heterotopic perspective on contemporary society...

... the afterlives of Wuthering Heights . Heathcliff walks . I want to thank Nathan K. Hensley, Anna Kornbluh, and Nasser Mufti for reading early drafts of this essay, and for their sustaining and supportive mentorship. Additionally, many thanks to my anonymous reader for generous and thoughtful engagement...

...Nasser Mufti Can the novel, so adept at making sociopolitical cohesiveness legible, help us understand society's dissolution? If novelistic writing makes national unity conceivable, often in conjunction with the institutions of national literature, language, and region, can this same literary form...

... purchase on history, in Egypt the capacious realisms of Naguib Mahfouz flourished during the same decades that saw the entrenchment of modernist orthodoxy in Europe and the United States. When an Egyptian modernism emerged in the 1960s, it was, according to Radwan, as much a response to Nasser-era...

... that their 1 Taher’s own novels—such as Qalat Duha (As Doha Said, 1985), about workers in an Egyptian ministry during Nasser’s presidency, and Al-Hubb fi al-Manfa (Love in Exile, 1995), which portrays the massacre of Palestinian refugees in the Sabra and Shatila camps and fictional journalists...