Memory, Voice, and Identity

Chapter 1:

Memory of Latifa al-Zayyat between Influence and Ambivalence

Magda Mansour Hasabelnaby

Chapter 2:

Rebuilding Baghdad: Placing Memoir in the Archive in Marina Benjamin's Last Days in Babylon (2007) and Tamara Chalabi's Late for Tea at the Deer Palace (2010)

Arththi Sathananthar

Chapter 3:

Once Upon a Time in Jerusalem: Re-memory and the Storied Geography of Subalterns' Telling of their S/Place

Riham Debian

Chapter 4:

"Don't Get in my Face Like Ashiq Peri": The Legacy of Azerbaijan's most Famous Woman Bard

Anna C. Oldfield

Chapter 5:

"Exilic Consciousness": Memoirs of Iranian Women Emigres

Feroza Jussawalla

Chapter 6:

Feminist Ethnography, Revisionary Historiography and the Subaltern in Assia Djebar's Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade

Naila Sahar

Section 2: Body and Politics

Chapter 7:

Spheres of Piety: Politicization of Muslim Women in Turkish Novels

Funda Gueven

Chapter 8:

Muslim Face, White Mask: Out al-Kouloub al-Dimerdashiyyah's Ramza as a Mimic (Wo)man

Doaa Omran

Chapter 9:

Same-sex Relations in Modern Arabic Fiction between Empowerment and Impossibility: A case study of Samar Yazbek's Cinnamon

Rima Sadek

Chapter 10:

Writing Veiled Bodies Anew: A Study of Maya al-Haj's Burkini: I?tirafat?Mu?ajjaba.

Asmaa Gamal Salem Awad

Section 3: Identity and Crossing Boundaries

Chapter 11:

"A Girl is Like a Bottle of Coke": Emptied and Recycled Identities in Always Coca-Cola

Lava Asaad

Chapter 12:

Shaping a Female Identity: Feminism & National Identity in Suad al-Sabah's Poetry

Asmaa Ahmed Youssef Moawad

Chapter 13:

"An Islam of her Own": A Critical Reading of Leila Aboulela's Minaret

Wafaa H. Sorour

Chapter 14:

Mobility, Survival, and the Female Body in Laila Lalami's Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits

Amel Abbady

Section 4: Moving to Wider Spheres

Chapter 15:

An Intersectional Feminist Reading of The Dove's Necklace and Hend and the Soldiers

Najlaa R. Aldeeb

Chapter 16:

Language and Identity in Postcolonial Mauritanian Muslim Women's Writing

Fatima Sidiya

Chapter 17:

Documenting Refugee Crisis and Post-migration Living Difficulties in Ebtissam Shakoush's In the Camps and Social Media Representations: A Postcolonial Perspective

Heba Gaber Abd Elaziz

Section 5: Returning to the Scheherazade Within

Chapter 18:

Djebar and Scheherazade: On Muslim Women, Past and Present

Brigitte Stepanov

Chapter 19:

Cultural Trauma and Scheherazade's Gastro-national/Transnational Discourse in Tamara al-Refai's Writings

Pervine Elrefaei

Chapter 20:

Revolutionizing Scheherazade: Deconstructing the Exotic and Oppressed Muslim Odalisque in Mohja Kahf's Poetry

Amany El-Sawy