1. O THER M IDDLE E ASTERN V OICES : W RITING AGAINST O RIENTALISM World Literature II Fall 2012 Dr. R. Ramos

2. R EVIEW : E DWARD S AID ’ S “O RIENTALISM ” “Orientalism [is] the [West’s] corporate institution for dealing with the Orient […] by making statements about it, authorizing views of it, describing it, by teaching it, settling it: in short, Orientalism as a Western style for dominating, restructuring, and having authority over the Orient” (88). “Orientalism is more particularly valuable as a sign of European-Atlantic power over the Orient than it is a veridic [true] discourse about the Orient” (90).

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4. P AKISTAN /I NDIA : S ALMAN R USHDIE ( B.1947) – P OST -M ODERN S HORT S TORY : “C HEKHOV AND Z ULU ”

5. P ALESTINE : M AHMOUD D ARWISH (1941-2008) – POST - MODERN P OEM : “S IRHAN DRINKS HIS COFFEE IN THE CAFETERIA ”

6. J ORDAN /I RAQ : A BDELRAHMAN M UNIF (1933-2004) -- REALIST N OVEL EXCERPT FROM CITIES OF S ALT

7. E GYPT : N AQUIB M AHFOUZ (1911-2006) S HORT S TORY : “Z AABALAWI ”

8. L IBYA : I BRAHIM AL -K ONI ( B. 1948) – POST - MODERN S HORT S TORY : “T HE G OLDEN B IRD OF M ISFORTUNE ”

9. S YRIA /L EBANON : H ANAN AL -S HAYKH ( B.1945) -- REALIST S HORT S TORY : “A S EASON OF M ADNESS ”

10. M OROCCO : F ATIMA M ERNISSI ( B. 1940) – REALIST MEMOIR EXCERPT : “T HE H AREM W ITHIN ”