Intersections: Gender, Nation, and Community in Arab Women's Novels

Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East

by Lisa Suhair Majaj (Editor)

This rigorously documented collection brings together for the first time original essays by leading authorities in the field on nine contemporary Arab women novelists from Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, and Palestine. The essays focus on texts available in English translation and explore with great theoretical sophistication the relationship of these authors’ texts to contemporary phenomena of feminism, nationalism, postcolonialism, war, transnationalism, and societal change.

Genres: Middle East, Nonfiction

240 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 2002

About the author

Lisa Suhair Majaj (born 1960) is a Palestinian-American poet and scholar.

Born in Hawarden, Iowa, Majaj was raised in Jordan. She earned a B.A. in English literature from American University of Beirut and an M.A. in English Literature, an M.A. in American Culture and a PhD in American Culture from the University of Michigan. In 2001, she moved to Nicosia, Cyprus.

Her poetry and essays have been published. In 2008, she was awarded the Del Sol Press Annual Poetry Prize for her poetry manuscript Geographies of Light.