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This book explores portrayals of the disabled in Arab/Muslim post-colonial North African and Middle Eastern societies in genres ranging from classical Arabic scripture to secular popular culture. Arab/Muslim characters in Arab, Islamic, Islamist, Francophone, and global societies are explored.
List of contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Al Qur'an's Teachings with Respect to the Disabled
Chapter 2: The Tunisian Deaf Mute through the Lens of American Orientalism
Chapter 3: Tunisian Camera's Treatment of Disability
Chapter 4: The Disabled Native: Ressource Humaine for the French: A Literary Study of Algerian Rachid Mimouni's Tombéza
Chapter 5: The Case of Female Characters with Disabilities: Moroccan Fatima vs. "Cure or Kill": A Disability Study of Tabar Ben Jelloun's l'Enfant de Sable [Sand Child]
Chapter 6: Disability and Shame in Salman Rushdie's novel Shame: What it means to be a Pakistani Disabled Postcolonial Woman
Chapter 7: The Egyptian Visually-Challenged Sheikh Husni's Treatment of Blindness in the Egyptian Film Al Kitkat
Chapter 8: Iraqi in Paris: Speaking Volumes: the Bond in Deafness of an Iraqi Father and Son
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the author
Saloua Ali Ben Zahra is assistant professor of Arabic culture, language and literature in translation at Appalachian State University.
Summary
This book explores portrayals of the disabled in Arab/Muslim post-colonial North African and Middle Eastern societies in genres ranging from classical Arabic scripture to secular popular culture. Arab/Muslim characters in Arab, Islamic, Islamist, Francophone, and global societies are explored.
