Category Gender
Heroes and antiheroes play a prominent role in Arabic literature. From the writings of Antarah ibn Shaddad and Al-Harriri to Mahmoud Darwish, the figure of the hero looms large. Reading literature in translation, much less pre-modern literature, can feel like… Continue Reading →
The One Thousand and One Night also known as The Arabian Nights is collection of folklore stories that have been used to lay the foundation of many stereotypes towards the Middle East. When Westerners talk about this collection one of… Continue Reading →
Women and Position of Power There are not many portrayal of women main characters in works of literature. The main character is always the man, who comes to the rescue of the fragile woman saving her from the villain. All… Continue Reading →
The Thousand and One Nights, is a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales published together during the Islamic Golden Age. The stories are structured around one central tale, about a powerful king named Shahryār. Prior to a visit with his… Continue Reading →
According to a prominent scholar of orientalism, Edward Said, orientalism is a way of coming to terms with the Orient (East) which helps define Europe with a contrasting image. Said defines orientalism as “a style of thought based on an… Continue Reading →
Many lines of comparison could be drawn between One Thousand and One Nights and the Odyssey: their reliance on myth, their origins as oral storytelling, their fantastical cast of characters. However, the common thread of gender is perhaps one of… Continue Reading →
In 2011 a Turkish television network and TIMS productions launched a television soap opera called The Magnificent Century (Muhteşem Yüzyıl in Turkish) that lasted for four seasons and came to an end in 2014. Shatha Almutawa writes that “hundreds of millions… Continue Reading →
1001 Nights 1001 Nights is a collection of folk tales written and released during the Islamic Gold Age. This compilation of stories is organized under the following narrative: Scorned by his unfaithful wife, the king of the empire, Shahryar, was… Continue Reading →
Arabian Nights: Women in Power and Cross - Cultural Attitudes
The Commodification and Confinement of Women as Reflected in One Thousand and One Nights
God and Poetry: Which is True Spirituality?
Hamilton and Buluqiya in the Quest for Immortality
Experiences in Germany through the Lens of an American, Ibn Fadlan Style
Unmasking the Depictions of Harlots, Whores, Sinners and "Middle Eastern" Women
Dangerous Women: Gender Themes in One Thousand and One Nights and the Odyssey
My Experience with Race Through the Prose of Antarah Ibn Shaddad
The Qasidah of our Youth: A Poem of the Past
A Nomad’s Home: Travel, Home, and Modern Constructions of Arab Identity
On Spiders and Mercy
Symbolism of Rain in Sayyab's "Rain Song" and Western Songs About Rain
The Function of the Classic Hero Cross-Culturally
Re-creating Ancient Myth in a Modern World: Women in Television
The Great Flood: Comparing Norse and Arabic Myth Today
1001 Nights and Disney: The Three Princes and the Princess of Nouronnihar and Brave
“رحلتي”: Being Visibly the “Other” Inspired by Ibn Battuta’s The Travels and Fatema Mernissi’s Scheherazade Goes West