The Search for Walid Masoud

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra's novel The Search for Walid Masoud (1978), recounts  the complex legacy left behind by Walid: a Palestinian author and political activist who has been living in Baghdad since 1948. At the beginning of the narrative, Dr Jawad Husni, the first narrator, tells us Walid disappreared six months ago, leaving his car on …

Intertextuality in Modern Arabic Literature Since 1967

Intertextuality in Modern Arabic Literature Since 1967, edited by Luc Deheuvels, Barbara Michalak-Pikulska and Paul Starkey, gathers together twelve papers  which examine the "past in the present." As Roger Allen points out in the first essay, Intertextualtiy and Retrospect: Arabic fiction's relationship with its past, this is something of a paradox - both focusing on …