Mohamed Salah Eddine Madiou

Scholarly occupations most often deal with The Tempest and Tamburlaine the Great, Part I & II, without much heed taken as to the real meaning of the recurrent syntagm ‘Argier’ and what its origins really are. This archaeological and toponymic effort runs counter to a dynastic tradition emanating from an approximate historical evaluation and geograp...

Because of the deleterious nature of the COVID-19 virus and its fast-spreading, the world had to make an urgent migration to online space. This transfer was achieved by way of a complex collaboration between home as space and the internet as cyberspace and was encouraged by the discourse of “stay home.” Using cyberspace to do daily tasks, while sta...

One of the most remarkable things about Thomas Wyatt’s poetry is how strikingly it tends to be neglected in Renaissance studies. This article focuses on some of Wyatt’s sonnets and muses on why the poet obsesses over time therein. While sonnets are generally said to be about love, Wyatt’s seem to be not only about this overfamiliar notion but also...

One of the most remarkable things about Thomas Wyatt's poetry is how strikingly it tends to be neglected in Renaissance studies. This article focuses on some of Wyatt's sonnets and muses on why the poet obsesses over time therein. While sonnets are generally said to be about love, Wyatt's seem to be not only about this overfamiliar notion but also...

While critics take a particular interest in discussing Mohsin Hamid as a novelist of globalization, migration, war, politics, economics, and capitalism, I contend that Hamid manifests a strong interest in, even obsession with, art in his fiction and non-fiction, which also makes him a novelist of art. Relying on his own words in his non-fiction, I...

Postcolonialism stands today in flagrant contradiction with its mission. This assertion should scarcely come as a surprise. Come to think of it: what has postcolonialism done to colonization in the past few decades, save passively reflecting on it and its realities that often do not fit the reality of things? How much leeway does postcolonialism gi...

The debate on Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist has, over the years, built what Stanley Fish calls an “interpretive community” which dictates how a work should be read and discussed. The quite tedious yet all-pervading claim that Hamid, in his novels, concerns himself with globalization, economy, neoliberalism, politics, multiculturalism...

The Lebanese Civil War, stretching over two decades of Lebanon’s history, features prominently in any discussion of Rabih Alameddine’s An Unnecessary Woman (2014), a novel fashioned according to the pent-up frustrations of a post-trauma period. Alameddine’s novel manifests traumatic signposts of the civil war, which make it indelibly situational, a...

The world, under Donald Trump's presidency, inaugurated a “new” way of dealing with international affairs, one abrupt and unapologetic, making the world into a world of warcraft. Trump came up with a “might is right” rule as a “solution” that proved, because official, to be of such a strong force of influence and legitimization it gained inter/intr...

There has been no way to absolve Orientalism from ferocious debate. Scholars have been drawn from several quarters of the world to Edward Said's oeuvre when it first appeared almost fifty years ago. Orientalism has since become an oft-occurring, if not a dominant work segueing into every postcolonial (or otherwise) conversation that unfurls. Said p...

The Reluctant Fundamentalist proves vitally engaged in the concerns of the mind and its passages reveal a struggle with difficulties of a sort that make anxiety seem an innocuous euphemism or outdated scholarly endeavor, which inevitably veers the reader's attention away from their importance in understanding the text and its world. This essay is c...