Thanks to all of your for this productive and provocative conversation. I would only like to intervene regarding Suha’s point about al-nahdah. I don’t think many folks are “cheering” al-nahdah. The *critical* turn […]

Suha, if we look more to the “literary genres that dominate the Arab street” or the maqaalatt, how do we go about finding it, especially in the US where we are so limited in Arabic translated texts?

Hello Samer and everyone in the group,

Not sure whether this is a new shift or not, but I think modern Islamic literature and fiction have  been understudied.  The impetus to cheer the Nahda  has clouded our […]

Hi Sulaiman, I think by areas, you mean area studies or regional categories, and those have become less useful over the past decades for literatures. As for literary criticism and intertextuality, what methods or […]

Hello samer,

In Arabic literature and scholarship,I value criticism  than other areas because literary criticism will give you opportunity of digging deep into the scope and manner of Arabic texts especially […]