Modern Arabic Novel

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

This class focuses on modern Arabic novels for three of the most important contemporary novelists in the Arab World. We will read these novels throughout the course with a focus on the story of the novel, its theme, vision, narrator’s views and positions, narrative style, characters and language. At the end of each novel, students will be assigned to write papers through which they discuss the novel in details, analyze and critique it. Similarly, at the end of the semester, the students will be assigned to write an extended paper to discuss a contemporary Arab novel chosen by the student, which we haven’t studied in class. We will introduce each these readings with a theoretical introduction for the modern Arabic novel.