Snow in Amman: An Anthology of Short Stories from Jordan

1988

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This anthology offers a rich and diverse selection of works from more than one hundred and forty prominent Arab writers of fiction. The collection reflects Arab writers' formal inventiveness as well as their intense exploration of various dimensions of modern Arab life, including the impact of modernity, the rise of the oil economy, political authoritarianism, corruption, religion, poverty, and the Palestinian experience in modern times.

The Rest: Journal of Politics and Development, 2022

Previously published as Journal of Global Analysis (JGA) * The surnames are listed in alphabetical order.

Research article, 2022

Orhan Pamuk takes up multifarious concerns in the novel Snow that a reader couldn't disregard while probing into the religious beliefs from the perspective of Turkey. The article attempts to unravel the paradigm of political Islam and resistance in female characters concerning headscarves within the Islamic tradition, with particular reference to his novel Snow. The novel begins with an exiled poet (Ka) making a trip to the deserted city of Kars. He intends to report on the municipal elections in the provincial city of Kars and investigate a string of suicides among religious girls who were barred from wearing their headscarves. The paper sheds light on the status of the headscarf, or hijab, in the Islamic religion. The study reveals that Pamuk's moaning and opposition to female characters stemmed from their religion. The present paper analyses Orhan Pamuk's Snow as a counter-narrative to Western secularism. The narrative protests against the state's secularist policy, its suppression, and the exploitation of Muslim female characters.

2011

Journal of Middle Eastern Studies , 2015

This article examines three short stories and one novella by contemporary Palestinian writer Ala Hlehel which manifest a preoccupation with the breakdown of human relationships and related themes of failed communication and miscommunication between people, as well as the absence of compassion. These themes articulate the alienation, isolation and estrangement of individuals from one another, and from community and society. They are reflected in the interpersonal relations depicted in the stories, and accentuated through motifs conveying decay and hypocrisy, and through rhetorical devices such as irony.

Respectus Philologicus

Contemporary Jordanian women writers have transported the act of writing into an act of dissidence to reflect their own perspectives and priorities shaped by a distinctive cultural and aesthetic formation. Writers like Huzama Habayeb, Afaf Batayneh, and Leila Elatrash speak with assertive voices about the confinement and even the abuse of Arab women. Their works reveal an unequivocal sense of pride in overthrowing all confinements, while at the same time condemning and combating the abusive excesses of patriarchy when it appropriates and exploits religious and cultural traditions to preserve its own material hegemony. Their discourse strives, with varying degrees of militancy, for an agenda that is quite dissident and threatening to the fabric of the traditional religious and social Arab norms. Some look at the West for a substitute model of their freedom of expression, while others seek an answer within the framework of Arabic culture. Their writing represents not only a fascinatin...

Indiana University Press eBooks, 1990

Students read and discuss representative works by Arab women, written originally in Arabic. Works include fiction, autobiography, poetry, and treatises of social change. While the course focuses on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, earlier contextual selections from the Qur'an, as well as early Islamic and pre-Islamic poetry will be explored. I. Explain how the proposed course satisfies the following Approval Criteria for Humanities: 1. The primary purpose of the course is the examination of particular expressions of human culture in their social, historical, intellectual, aesthetic, or ethical dimensions. In this course, LTAR 382, Arab Women Writers, students explore Arab women authors' works of autobiography, fiction, poetry, and discussions of social change. These works will be contextualized within the Arab world as well as a wider global sphere, and with references to social changes from pre-Islamic to present times. 2. The course must analyze how ideas are represented, interpreted, or valued in these cultural expressions. The course analyzes the ways in which ideas are represented, interpreted, or valued with specific reference to gendered expression in creative, intellectual, and social arenas. 3. The course must examine relevant primary source materials as understood by the appropriate discipline(s). Students in this course examine primary source materials such as autobiography, fiction, poetry, and position papers on social issues. Written materials include: Barakat. Tiller of Waters. Khalifeh. Wild Thorns. Tuqan. Mountainous Journey.

2012

As far as the “veil” is concerned, linguistic laziness is not an exclusive feature of either Hebrew or Israeli discourse. Indeed, in its global travels, the “veil” has engendered various concerns, entangled debates and an assortment of locally signifying names. Some of those who employ these names are well aware of their shortcomings. However, like all symbols, the “veil” has been reduced to generalizing semantics. Moreover, in its global travels, it has been given not only misleading and reductive names, but also the status of a “problem,” or an “issue,” discussed separately and specifically within the context of each and every place – a trans-local theme that has been trickling from place to place and from country to country, thus creating a phenomenon. Within this opulence, it is clear to whoever hears of the “problem” that, in one way or another, it involves Muslim men, women and children and, furthermore, that it is associated with their attitude toward the order of things, for...

Journal of Palestine Studies