Narratives of Dislocation in the Arab World

Nadeen Dakkak is Lecturer in World and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Exeter. She was IASH- Alwaleed Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Edinburgh in 2021– 2022 and completed her PhD in English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. Her research examines literary and cultural productions on migration in the Gulf.

Introduction Part I: Ghurba in Narratives of Slavery and Racism 1. Dissolving into the Nile: Ottoman Reformism and Maternal Slavery in Sergüzeşt 2. Re-writing the Other: Uncovering the Legacies of Slavery in Suad Amiry’s My Damascus Part II: Ghurba in Narratives of Displacement 3. The Woman from Tantoura: Structural Marginalisation and the Re-Making of Home among Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon 4. Memory and Resistance in Susan Abulhawa’s Against the Loveless World 5. The Refugee as a "Russian Doll": Haitham Hussein’s Readings of Ghurba and Exile at the Time of the Global "Migration Crisis" Part III: Religious Spaces of Ghurba and Belonging 6. Ghurba and the Emergence of a Gendered Pious Consciousness in Popular Religious Novels by Arab Women 7. Can the Qazani Speak? Nineteenth Century Naqshbandi Migrants and Translators in Mecca During the Age of Print Part IV: Negotiating National Imaginaries of Belonging and Exclusion 8. Spectral Migrant Workers and the Paradox of Modern Nation-Building in Deepak Unnikrishnan’s Temporary People 9. The Arab-African Cultural Identity in Idris Ali’s Dongola