The Edinburgh Companion to the Postcolonial Middle East

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Acknowledgements
Notes on the Contributors
Note on Transliteration
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1 Dialectics of Post/Colonial Modernity in the Middle East: A Critical, Theoretical and Disciplinary Overview
Chapter 2 Edward Said and the Institution of Postcolonial Studies
Chapter 3 Postcolonialism and Modern Arabic Literature: Twenty-first-century Horizons
Chapter 4 Interview with Ahdaf Soueif
Chapter 5 Interview with Sinan Antoon
Part I The Colonial Encounter: Discourses of Imperialism and Anti-imperialism
	Chapter 6 Between the Postcolonial and the Middle East: Writing the Subaltern in the Arab World
	Chapter 7 Orientalism and World Literature: A Re-reading of Cosmopolitanism in Ṭāhā Ḥusayn’s Literary World
	Chapter 8 On Orientalist Genealogies: The Split Arab/Jew Figure Revisited1
	Chapter 9 Colonial Violence, Law and Justice in Egypt
	Chapter 10 Peripheral Visions: Translational Polemics and Feminist Arguments in Colonial Egypt
	Chapter 11 Reimaging the Ottoman Legacy
Part II States of Post/Coloniality: Politics, Religion, Gender, Sexuality
	Chapter 12 Postcolonial Nations: Political or Poetic Allegories? (On Tahar Djaout’s L’Invention du désert)
	Chapter 13 Passing Away: Despair, Eulogies and Millennial Palestine
	Chapter 14 ‘They are in the right because I love them’: Literature and Palestine Solidarity in the 1980s
	Chapter 15 Nikes in Nineveh: Daesh, the Ruin and the Global Logic of Eradication
	Chapter 16 There Was No ‘Humble Task’ in the Revolution: Anti-colonial Activity and Arab Women
	Chapter 17 The Queerness of Textuality and/as Translation: Ways of Reading Hoda Barakat’s The Stone of Laughter
Part III The Post/Colonial Present: Crisis and Engagement in Global Context
	Chapter 18 Anglophone Arab Autobiography and the Postcolonial Middle East: Najla Said and Hisham Matar
	Chapter 19 Bare Life in the ‘New Iraq’
	Chapter 20 Towards a Globalisation of Contemporary Iranian Literature? Iranian Literary Blogs and the Evolution of the Literary Field
	Chapter 21 Popular Culture and the Arab Spring
	Chapter 22 The Syrian Revolution, Art and the End of Ideology
	Chapter 23 Biopolitical Landscapes of the ‘Small Human’: Figuring the Child in the Contemporary Middle Eastern Refugee Crisis in Europe
Afterword: Critical Companionships, Urgent Affiliations
Bibliography
Index