Bahoora, Haytham. 2015. The Arab Studies Journal 23, no. 1: 184-208. Bahoora presents a discussion of three Iraqi novels (Luay Hamza Abbas’s Closing His Eyes, Hassan Blasim’s The Reality and the Record, and Ahmed…
Kraemer, Joseph A. 2015. Journal of Film and Video 67, no. 3-4: 57-68. Kraemer argues the animation in Waltz With Bashir (2008) softens the real violence and atrocities committed by the characters in the film, allowing…
Mohammed, Sadek R. 2018. World Literature Today 92, no. 2: 32-36. Mohammed discusses the history of the Iraqi novel from the 1920s onward, including the large output in the 1960s, the character of highly censored…
Roy, Sneharika. 2018. A Poetics of Neurosis. Postcolonial scholar Sneharika Roy claims that in narratives of traumatized American expatriates, physical wounds serve as metaphors for psychological turmoil. She provides…
Senior, William A. 2006. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 17, no. 4: 317-321. An introduction to a journal, this paper analyzes Frank Herbert’s Dune as an allegory for US and UK intervention in the Middle East.…
Galtung, Johan. 1971. Journal of Peace Research 8, no. 2: 81-117. Echoing Immanuel Wallerstein’s World Systems Theory, this source conceptualises imperialism as being separated into cores and peripheries, where there…