Professor Asia Omrani (pp. 1–17)

Laboratory of Functional Physiology and Valorization of Bio-resources

Higher Institute of Biotechnology of Beja, University of Jendouba

Abstract

Since narrative structures possess immense artistic capacities to represent the crises of reality, ideological conflicts, and cultural and social transformations across the world, narrative works—as a cultural form, and the novel in particular—have become the most capable medium for expressing the collective voice. In the Arab world, the novel has emerged as a space of freedom within societies suffering from a crisis of lost freedom and a lack of democracy. Its qualitative development coincided with the trajectory of Arab defeat, particularly following the defeat of Arab armies in the 1967 war. As Ghali Shukri argues, this defeat represented “the defeat of a vision in thought and art, and an indicator of the escalation of the conflict between East and West; yet the end of that vision marked the beginning of a new one, and the birth of a renewed vision in the Arab world.”

Keywords: Desert, Novelist’s Discourse, Abdel Rahman Munif