LITERATURE AND NATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST

indexFaqir, Fadia, 182Farah, Khalil, 169–70, 175–6Farid, Muhammad, 208, 209Fatah organisation, 64femininityin All That’s Left to You, 65–75and male return, 64, 65–6and problem of female desire, 71–4feminist analysis, 49; see also feminity; womenfolk heroes, Palestinian, 41–2France, 166, 182French languageArabic literature in, 182in Lebanon, 190, 191Frye, Northrop, 33, 39, 54Funj sultanate (Sudan), 163–5Gadamer, Hans-Georg, 110Gandhi, Mahatma, 171Gellner, Ernest, 128genderand Palestinian narrative of return, 48, 49–50, 52–3and political allegory, 58George, Rosemary, The Politics of Home, 192,193German Romanticism, 4‘republic of letters’, 6Germany, before re/unification, 2, 6–7Ghali, Waguih, Beer in the Snooker Room, 183Ghanayim, Muhammad Hamza, 187al-Ghayati, Ali, Wataniyyati (poetrycollection), 208, 209Gibb, Hamilton, 132Gibran Khalil, Khalil, 183Grass, Günther, 6Great Britainnational literatures in, 4and Sudan, 164, 165–6, 167, 168–70, 172Greek literature, in Egypt, 184–5Greenblatt, Stephen, 110Guattari, Felix, 64Habash, George, 48Habibi, Imil, The Amazing Events Leading tothe Disappearance of the Hapless Said, thePessoptimist, 40–6comparison with Candide, 45–6Hebrew translations of, 106Hajjaj, Nasri‘A Hungry Orange’ (story), 36–7, 39‘Soup for the Children’ (story), 37–8al-Hakim, Tawfiq, 144–5ÆAwdat al-ruh (Return of the Spirit), 131,144–57Halbwachs, Maurice, 194Hamadi, SaÆdun, 213Hammad, Suheir, 184Hammoud, Hani, 190Hanania, Tony, 190Unreal City, 192, 199–206Harvard Negotiation Project, 92Haydar, Adnan, 193al-Haydari, Buland, 186Haykal, Muhammad Husayn, 5, 130, 132–3compared with al-Hakim, 144–5use of pseudonym, 132–3, 135–6Zainab, 131, 133–44, 157Hazan, Yaakov, 118Hebrew culture, and literary translation, 101Hebrew languageArabic literature translated into, 102–3,104–5, 106, 187Palestinian Israeli writing in, 186–7Hebrew University of Jerusalem, OrientalStudies Institute, 103heroic construct, in poetry, 23–5, 27–8Hirsch, Marianne, 190historyand myth, 122–4and nationalism, 110Hoffman, Eva, 193homeand country, 192–3and nostalgia, 194Homer, place names in, 20–1, 29–30nnHourani, Albert, 12, 129humour, 40–1Hussein, Saddam, 211Hussein, Taha, al-Ayyam (novel), 109nHutcheon, Linda, 33Huxley, Aldous, 1Ibrahim, Hafiz, 162identityambiguous, 44hyphenated, 8, 43–5multi-ethnic, 185–9Idris, Yusuf, Al-Haram (The Taboo), 138imagery, 23–4, 85, 97nIndia, 162, 181Indian Ocean, cultural world of, 180–1, 183inter-textuality, 218–19, 224–5, 226, 227Iraq, 180, 215–16Egyptian literature in, 131Jews in, 186—259 —www.taq.ir