The Impact of World War I on Middle East “Arabs” in Awwad’s “Al-Raghif”: A Cultural Perspective

Lateef Wisam Hamid

doi:10.1515/rjes-2017-0005

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The Impact of World War I on Middle East “Arabs” in Awwad’s “Al-Raghif”: A Cultural Perspective

Romanian Journal of English Studies

Volume 14 (2017): Issue 1 (November 2017)

By: Lateef Wisam Hamid

Open Access

|Nov 2017

Abstract

My paper will explore the genre of war narrative from a cultural perspective, namely the impact of the Great War on Arabs in the novel Al-Raghif (The Loaf’) in 1939 by the Lebanese novelist Tawfiq Yusuf Awwad, as it is the first Arabic novel which is totally concerned with WWI and its longlasting consequences: hunger, despair and the elusive promise of freedom to Arabs.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2017-0005 | Journal eISSN: 2286-0428 | Journal ISSN: 1584-3734

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Language: English

Page range: 31 - 36

Published on: Nov 30, 2017

Published by: West University of Timisoara

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

Keywords:

Arab identity,

consequences,

diachronic relevance,

refugee,

Related subjects:

Linguistics and semiotics,

Theoretical frameworks and disciplines,

Linguistics, other,

Germanic languages,

English

© 2017 Lateef Wisam Hamid, published by West University of Timisoara
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Volume 14 (2017): Issue 1 (November 2017)