Rashad Al Areqi

• Associate Prof. of English Language and Literature
• Al Baha University

The article explores the image of the Muslim and the mosque in postcolonial literary texts. E. M. Forester’s A Passage to India is taken as an example of the postcolonial text which will be traced to recognize how the western novelist portrays the Muslim’s life and how he has shaped the indigenous identity of the Muslim in this narrative. Further,...

Terrorism is the talk of the world. It also occupies a larger part in the media and Islam receives relatively high attention compared to other religions. Islam, Muslims, particularly Arabs, in the eyes of the West, become the source of terrorism that gives the West an opportunity to launch a war against the countries which are accused of terrorism....

The values and morals of Western communities vary significantly across different eras, heavily influenced by socio-cultural and religious contexts. However, these values and morals can be abandoned or transformed over time due to various circumstances. The convictions and traditions rooted in socio-cultural and religious values often clash with the...

This study addresses the journey of Håkan, a young Swedish man who does not speak English, and the obstacles he encounters during his quest to locate his brother, Linus, in Hernan Diaz's In the Distance, (2017). Håkan becomes a legend in the eyes of the indigenous people and the immigrants who meet him in the landscape of the American West. However...

Religious and sociocultural values play a significant role in constructing a person"s self-identity and influencing their choices. This paper explores the religious and sociocultural values depicted in Akwaeke Emezi"s The Death of Vivek Oji (2020) and the impact of those values on Vivek's life decisions. Vivek's self-identity construction is highli...

Psychoanalytic criticism probes deeply into human behavior, uncovering unconscious anxieties, desires, and problems. This study examines Abdulrazak Gurnah's Gravel Heart (2017) from a psychanalytic perspective, highlighting Salim's different stages of life and tracing the troubles he encounters. Psychoanalytic theory is applied to the concepts of f...

Class conflicts are mostly based on competing ideologies embraced by different segments of a community. These values may be religious, economic, political, social, etc. in nature. This study explores the class conflicts, the ideologies behind these conflicts and investigates how these ideologies both control the different classes’ behavior and domi...

Race and identity transformation have been overarching themes in the works of African American writers. Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half (2020) is one fictional work that deals with identical twin sisters: Desiree and Stella Vignes. They are two light-skinned Black sisters who have chosen or rebuilt their identities based on the needs that allow t...

Race and identity transformation have been overarching themes in the works of African American writers. Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half (2020) is one fictional work that deals with identical twin sisters: Desiree and Stella Vignes. They are two light-skinned Black sisters who have chosen or rebuilt their identities based on the needs that allow t...

Many African Americans seek to unravel their history and ancestral roots, much of which was lost during the Great Migration that took place between 1916 and 1970. Morgan Jerkins’s Wandering in Strange Lands (2020) explores the history and the ancestral roots of the Jerkins family, along both the paternal and maternal lineages. Written as a memoir,...

The Jewish character has passed in a variety of transformations through different stages of history. The study explores the position of Jewish character in the world narration, how the Arabs depict the contemporary Jewish character in their literary works compared to the Western/Christian community and their attributes in the Nobel Quran. The Jewis...

No one denies what Arab Spring brought to the Arab world of destruction and loss. The revolutionaries did not think for a moment that they could reach this unknown and blurred future. The Arab countries are still suffering from the consequences of their uprisings confronted by conspiracy to turn the situation to the worse. The turmoil and conflicti...

Palestinian narrative comes to reflect the reality of a nation under dislocation, Diaspora, and reshaping the indigenous identity. The Palestinian narratives always attempt to show part of the Palestinian suffering and struggling under the Israeli occupation. This study traces the life of a family, it is Abulheja’s during three generations as prese...

Immigration is a dream of unlimited number of people, particularly, the third world and developing countries people who receive different types of oppression and encounter freedom restrictions in their own countries. They search for better conditions of lives by obtaining the developed countries citizenship. They spend their lives searching for asy...

Abstract: Cultural and religious values are the main elements that determine the social behavior and human relationships in the community. Such cultural and religious values are responsible for a person's look at himself and others. Cultural and religious values put people in good or bad mould due to their attitude towards such values, whether posi...

Abstract:- This paper explores the Muslim females’ vision in two narratives, namely the Girls of Riyadh (2005) by Rajaa Al Sanea and the Persian Girls (2006) by Nahid Rachlin. The former represents the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia while the latter stands for Iran. In these novels, both nations claim their adherence to the Islamic rituals and rules. Also...

Hybridity/Hybridization in postcolonialism comes to show a combination of two cultures or more and the culturally hybrid person is supposed to live with such a culture in his/her community. However, when you probe deeply into the lives of the hybrids, you find the hybrid unwelcome in the community he lives in, particularly in the Arab and Islamic c...

The Islamic literature does not take its proper place among the world arts as one of the significant areas of research. Islamism does not spring up as a tool of literary criticism worthy of studying and writing about. Many studies need to be done on the Islamic literature to highlight this sort of literature and culture. Critics may not give suffic...

Exile and Globalization are two postcolonial terms that reflect the reality of the communities and the influence of such terms on the lives of the people inside or outside their communities. Exile and globalization have gained special concern in the poetry of Abdullah Al Baraduni, a Yemeni poet. The article traces the influence of such terms upon t...

A human being may leave his home, particularly the small city he lives in or leaving his big home to find better opportunities in living or escaping from oppression or wars that drive him to another city or another country to secure a better life for his family and his children. This article attempts to trace the contemporary American narratives ho...

Literature and culture are involved with each other to mould the community and the style of life. Sometimes it is not easy mission to differentiate between literature and culture: who makes the other? Teaching literature requires unique skills that may mingle between two or more techniques or approaches and let them working together to motivate the...

Many transformations occur in the daily lives of the peoples of the Arab Gulf. Undoubtedly, such changes have left very deep influence in the varied areas of lives. Writing Gulf Sates literature in general and narrative in particular is reshaped by the daily events and concerns. The daily social and political, cultural and race/sectarian prejudice...

Many transformations occur in the daily lives of the peoples of the Arab Gulf. Undoubtedly, such changes have left very deep influence in the varied areas of lives. Writing Gulf Sates literature in general and narrative in particular is reshaped by the daily events and concerns. The daily social and political, cultural and race/sectarian prejudice...

__________________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT Zayd Mutee Dammaj's The Hostage is one of the narratives that addresses the suffering and struggling of the Yemeni people under the imamate rule. This narrative does not come to express the life of one of the Yemeni hostages in the prison and later o...

Search for freedom is one of the most demanding requirements of the people who were under the hell of slavery in the past, particularly in America; nowadays slavery adopts different aspects in the contemporary era. Morrison is one of the Afro-American novelists who dedicated their literary works to uncover the tyranny imposed on the African America...

Diaspora and counter discourse become a mark of Palestinian Diasporas to express their sufferings and sacrifices for their country. This paper examines how Palestinian writers reveal diasporas and counter discourse in their literary works. Diaspora has detached them from their families and friends, from their people and place. Mourid Barghouthi's I...

Secularism and secularization as concepts come to the arena of academic writing very early. This paper explores how secularism/secularization movement in Europe has changed the vision of the man and the masses towards life and religion. However, the focus here is on Arabic narrative and Islamic community and how a host of Arab writers are profoundl...

It is not easy to write about a home you are enforced to be away of it. Undoubtedly, your words and lines will be expressive and impressive because they come to reveal a fact would not be ignored by the Palestinians or the world in general. Mohmoud Darwish is one of the Palestinians who were enforced to be dislocated, jailed, but exiled. He has an...