Ebrahim Mohammed Alwuraafi- Associate Professor
- Associate Prof. at Al Baha University
Ebrahim Mohammed Alwuraafi
- Associate Professor
- Associate Prof. at Al Baha University
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In The Tobacco Keeper, Ali Bader delves into the harrowing experiences of Iraqi Jews during the Farhud, a violent pogrom that took place in Baghdad in 1941. The story not only chronicles the immediate physical and emotional toll of the violence but also examines the long-lasting psychological effects that such an experience has on the Jewish commun...
The present article addresses the complex interplay of boundaries, belonging, and modes of identity and investigates the space between the distinct boundaries of religious identities. It focuses on the Jewish Muslim identity as it defies categorization and plays out in the liminal space of the Jewish Muslims, a space of fluid and blurred contours,...
This article discusses the national identity of the Yemenite Jews as portrayed in Majdi Saleh’s novel The Journey of Buried Secrets . The novel, in addition to being a journey to the ancient past of Yemen, is a journey to the secret life of the Yemenite Jews as well. It is an exploration of their customs, traditions, worries, passions and identity....
The article examines Ihsan Abdel Quddous’s literary texts that deal with Egyptian Jewish women to explore how Egyptian Jewesses figure in these texts to disrupt, disturb, or offset prevailing historical and fictional discourses and explore his attitude toward Egyptian Jews in general and Jewish women in particular. Deploying post-colonial feminist...
The Muslim world has been plagued by imperial interests, cultural ravaging and plundering, unequal partnership with the West. However, since the September 11, 2001 (9/11) attacks, the Arab world has moved to the center of political and cultural debates and attracted the major number of representations in American writings. These writings form a new...
Forming national identity is placed on top of the seven aspects of High-Impact Educational Practices (HIEPs) in Northern Border University. Similarly, the concept of academic awareness to national literature has been one of the main challenges to national literature in the Middle East. Just as the strong presence of national identity in Saudi's 203...
Very little has been written on cultural identity and national identity in contemporary Lebanese novel in the diaspora. This study explores how border identity is presented in Rabih Alameddine's Koolaids (1998), I, the Divine (2001), and The Angel of History (2016), three novels about the failure of the Lebanese immigrants to establish their cultur...
The second half of the twentieth century Saudi Arabia witnessed an extraordinary economic boom that resulted from the oil production. The new wealth changed people’s life and instead of the old and impoverished life, there started a new one of unimaginable riches and wealth. This sudden metamorphosis has had negative psychological impacts such as a...
Nomi Eve's novel Henna House: A Novel (2014) is the first novel to tackle the history of Jews in Yemen-one of the poorest and most forgotten countries of the world-in English. The novel revisits the last period of the Jews' history in Yemen before their transportation to Israel in Operation Magic Carpet between 1949 and 1950 and is illustrative of...
The Palestinian-Israeli conflict is one of the thorniest conflicts in the world. The life of the Palestinians in refugee camps under occupation is very difficult. Curfews, checkpoints, detention, and violence permeate all aspects of their daily life. Striving against poverty, their vicious enemy, and the constant struggle to survive are daily night...
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Since the attacks of September 11, hundreds of novels have been written on and about Islam. Such novels attempt to explain Islam or portray Muslims. Some of these novels have tried to explain the true Islam as opposed to fundamentalism, as a religion of peace, tolerance and charity while others have depicted Islam as an evil religion, a re...
Arab nation is one of the most ancient nations in the world. Their history goes back to The Bronze Age (3200-1300 BC). However, such a history is totally distorted as it was written according to the whims of the colonizers. Arab history has been massively transformed; their culture deprecated and entirely disparaged; their wealth plundered. However...
Dual loyalty refers to the common emotional experience of being pulled in two different directions. It consists of a collective state of mind such that diasporas feel they owe allegiance to both host country and homeland. The study explores the theme of dual loyalties in an Arab American novel, Scattered Like Seeds, by Shaw J. Dallal. The paper use...
According to Oxford English Dictionary, the word 'colonialism' comes from the Latin 'colonia' which means 'farm settlement,' and refers originally to the Romans who settled in foreign lands but still retained their citizenship. The first use of the term appeared in the eighteenth-century debates about the morality of slavery. In recent times differ...
Identity is an extremely complex concept and a simple definition
of what it refers to is difficult to find. However, definitions are provided
here. Identity is “people’s concepts of who they are, of what sort of
people they are, and how they relate to others” (Hogg and Abrams
2). “Identity,” Parekh writes, “basically refers to how one identifies
an...
