Palestinian women and the problematics of survival: Liana Badr's The eye of the mirror
Spatial impositions, circularity, and memory: Malika Mokeddem's Les hommes qui marchent and Le siècle des sauterelles
The politics of the female body: Assia Djebar's Women of Algiers in their apartment and Fatima Mernissi's Dreams of trespass: tales of a harem girlhood
Creative dissidence and religious contentions: the works of Nawal El Saadawi
Cities under siege and the language of survival: Hanan al-Shaykh's Beirut blues and Nuha al-Radi's Baghdad diaries
The semiology of food: Diana Abu-Jaber's Crescent.
