Migration to the Gulf in the Arabic Novel
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Arab Gulf States
Arabic novel
Author_Nadeen Dakkak
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diaspora
Egyptian labor migration
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forthcoming
migration
Palestinian displacement
Product details
- ISBN 9781399542814
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jun 2026
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Arab migration to the Gulf unfurled in the midst of manifold political and economic changes and had crucial social ramifications all over the Arab world. Through the examination of a selection of Arabic migration narratives set from the 1970s onwards, this monograph asks: how have Arab writers responded to this phenomenon and what are the thematic and formal characteristics of literary attempts to represent the rarely acknowledged and complex affects that have been generated in subjective experiences of Gulf migration?
By foregrounding centre–periphery dynamics within the Arab world, the analysis decentres the emphasis on the encounter with the ‘West’ in scholarship on migration in Arab literature and culture. It challenges prevailing discourses on the Gulf and demonstrates the role of fiction in nuancing essentialist images of a uniform Gulf migrant experience.
Nadeen Dakkak is Lecturer in World and Postcolonial Literatures in the Department of English and Creative Writing at the University of Exeter. She was IASH-Alwaleed Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Edinburgh in 2021–2022 and completed her PhD in English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. She is editor of Narratives of Dislocation in the Arab World: Rewriting Ghurba (Routledge, 2023) and has published a number of articles and book chapters on Gulf migration in literature and popular culture.
