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Os trabalhos da nova geração de escritores do Cairo compartilham um conjunto de características narrativas peculiares, envolvendo tanto uma ruptura com as formas modernistas e realistas anteriores quanto uma transformação das regras de referências pelas quais o texto se relaciona com o mundo externo. O artigo procura mostrar que, independente de onde suas tramas sejam ambientadas, essas obras compartilham homologias formais com as crescentes favelas do Cairo.

This article discusses Edward Said's intellectual legacy in the Arab world. After examining Said's own cultural influences, the trajectory of his early academic career in America, and his ""re-orientation"" towards his Arab identity and culture following the 1967 war, the author focuses on the reception of his works in Arab intellectual circles. Though Orientalism was initially misperceived through the frame of identity politics, his theoretical writings exerted a steadily growing impact on Arab criticism, particularly by offering a way out of its methodological dependency on the West. The author suggests that Said's final role as an oppositional intellectual ""speaking truth to power,"" which reached beyond the Arab intelligentsia to a broader audience, may in the final analysis be his most lasting contribution.

The astonishing story of the uproar in Egypt over the publication of a Syrian novel set in Algeria -- a work of literature as trigger for political crisis & polemical turmoil, two decades after it was written, in a landscape completely transformed. Haydar Haydar's fiction as tuning-fork of stark dissonances of time & outlook in the Arab world. Adapted from the source document.

The paper discusses Mahmud Tahir Lashin's work and significance; the arrival of Lashin on the Egyptian literary scene in the 1920s marked a turning point in the history of the short story: he developed the genre and brought its formative years to a close; Lashin was also the major figure of a versatile literary group, Jamaat al-Madrasa al-Haditha (the Modern School), which played a decisive role on developing the Egyptian short story

Edward W. Said (1935–2003) ranks as one of the most preeminent public intellectuals of our time. Through his literary criticism, his advocacy for the Palestinian cause, and his groundbreaking book Orientalism, Said elegantly enriched public discourse by unsettling the status quo. This indispensable volume, the most comprehensive and wide-ranging resource on Edward Said's life and work, spans his broad legacy both within and beyond the academy. The book brings together contributions from thirty-one luminaries—leading scholars, critics, writers, and activists—to engage Said's provocative ideas. Their essays and interviews explore the key themes of emancipation and representation through the prisms of postcolonial theory, literature, music, philosophy, and cultural studies.Contributors: Bill Ashcroft, Ben Conisbee Baer, Daniel Barenboim, Timothy Brennan, Noam Chomsky, Denise DeCaires-Narain, Nicholas Dirks, Marc H. Ellis, Rokus de Groot, Sabry Hafez, Abdirahman A. Hussein, Ardi Imseis, Adel Iskandar, Ghada Karmi, Katherine Callen King, Joseph Massad, W. J. T. Mitchell, Laura Nader, Ilan Pappe, Benita Parry, Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan, Jahan Ramazani, Jacqueline Rose, Lecia Rosenthal, Hakem Rustom, Avi Shlaim, Ella Habiba Shohat, Robert Spencer, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Anastasia Valassopoulos, Asha Varadharajan, Michael Wood