Browse Hierarchy ESH7080: Reading the Middle East to Arab(ic) Fiction

This MA module will introduce you to key texts (in translation or originally written in English), and key debates, from or about the Arab world and its diasporas. The module asks questions about the role of race, religion, regional geo-politics, sectarian and other violence, gender and sexuality and the movement of people. The question of translation (literal, cultural, metaphorical) is at the centre of the module's approach to these texts. At a time when it feels as though the Arab world and its people have never been so demonised, nor so victimised, this module seeks to interrogate the work that such texts do in the university and beyond to represent, challenge representations, or `translate' their cultures of origin.