Middle East Interpretations

19 year old Murat Kurnaz was heading home to Germany from a trip to Pakistan when he was arrested by the Pakistani police and sold, for $300...

Waltz with Bashir is an award winning animated documentary film made in Israel in 2008. The film is made with a unique style described by ...

Jasmine and Stars: Reading More than Lolita in Tehran is a thoughtful and refreshing response to the growing corpus of books popular in Ame...

The Year of the Elephant is an interesting short novel that treats both the Moroccan independence struggle from French colonial domination ...

The novel The Bastard of Istanbul was originally written in English by Elif Shafak, a Turkish author with several novels already to her cre...

The Palestinian film Paradise Now (2007) and the Israeli film Time of Favor (2000) make for an interesting comparison. Paradise Now give...

Ibrahim al-Koni is a Libyan novelist who grew up as a Taureg ( Bedouin ) and writes especially about these nomadic people of the western S...

War in the Land of Egypt by Yusuf Al Qa'Id is a fascinating novel told from the perspectives of six different characters examining soc...

In Postcolonial Literature we are reading literature from Palestine and we have looked at a time line of events that stretch back to the Bal...

In George Herbert's science fiction novel, Dune , a character declares, "He who controls the spice controls the universe." Is...

Pride of Baghdad is a powerful graphic novel based on a true story about a family of lions that escaped the Baghdad zoo during the America...

Last night I attended WMU's performance of Heather Raffo 's play "9 Parts of Desire." Raffo is an American whose father ...

The film " Reel Bad Arabs " is based on Jack Shaheen's extensive book and website with the same title -- the second edition ...

Middle East Interpretations will serve as organizational center for two groups of academic blogs from Literary Interpretations and Postcolo...