This distinguished anthology presents for the first time in English travel essays by Arabic writers who have visited America in the second half of the century. The view of America which emerges from these accounts is at once fascinating and illuminating, but never monolithic. The writers hail from a variety of viewpoints, regions, and backgrounds, so their descriptions of America differently engage and revise Arab pre-conceptions of Americans and the West. The country figures as everything from the unchanging Other, the very antithesis of the Arab self, to the seductive female, to the Other who is both praiseworthy and reprehensible.

YUSUF AL-HASAN MAHMUD AL-SAADANI MUSTAFA AMIN RADWA ASHUR MAHMUD AWAD AHMAD HARIDI PHILIP K. HITTI YUSUF IDRIS SHAFIQ JABRI KARIMA KAMAL ZAKI NAJIB MAHMUD AHMAD MUSTAFA SAYYID QUTB MIKHAIL ASAD RUSTUM ALI SALIM HALA SARHAN HISHAM SHARABI JADHIBIYYA SIDQI LAYLA ABU ZAYD

About the Author
KAMAL ABDEL-MALEK Assistant Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Alberta in Toronto, Canada.
MOUNA EL KAHLA currently teaches Arabic at the University of Wollongong, Australia.

Reviews

"An instructive collection in a globalizing world." - Booklist

Book Information
ISBN 9780230620353
Author K. Abdel-Malek
Format Paperback
Page Count 152
Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan