The researcher in this paper elaborates the writings of Naguib Mahfouz from an existential perspective in Cairo Trilogy. Mahfouz concludes that western scholars and politicians conceal the realities of daily life in Egypt, which Mahfouz reveals. In Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy, one can find an openness and acceptance in Egyptian society for other faiths and cultures. The researcher will illustrate how there is an important acceptance of internal existential and religious struggles amongst individuals in the society during this novel. The researcher focuses on the character and the inner psychological conflicts in these characters. It seems that this is an important aspect of Egyptian identity. The idea that Egyptians or Muslims are struggling mainly with the West is contradictory to Mahfouz’s characterizations. He asserts that Egyptians have their own internal struggles because of the diversity of their ideologies.
This paper aims at analyzing the selected novels of Naguib Mahfouz in the light of the existential predicament of ‘man’. Such predicament is manifested in the aspects of despair, frustration, and poverty. The Characters in the novels play a significant role in displaying the sordid images of the modern futility of the conditions of the post-World War in Egypt. The paper assumes the existentialism as a theory and topic to comment on the situation, hence the researcher conducts the research within the existentialist theory. The texts that are selected in this paper are as follow, Midaq Alley, Cairo Trilogy, The Beggar, and The Thief and the Dogs.
In this paper, the researcher shows how Laila Halaby presents mainstream Americans’ perception of Arab Americans post 9/11 America in her novel Once in a Promised Land. Halaby narrates how the mainstream Americans provided the Western gaze upon the Arab-American citizens. Halaby symbolizes in the characters an America which is conspiratorial and submerged with religious passions. After 9/11, Halaby’s mainstream American characters become increasingly fanatical and mistrustful of Arabs, specifically, and Islamic religion, in general. Halaby, then, portrays intolerant and xenophobic American characters overwrought with doubts and discloses a post 9/11 America that is prevalent with anti-Arab racism. Halaby also propounds that the widespread American perception of a world patently divided between East and West only arouses global crises such as drought, poverty and war. She also declares that the attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, were a direct result of these epidemics. Moreover, Halaby offers a perspective of Americans who are ignorantly perceiving the United States as separated from crises affecting all nations. For this reason, Halaby's novel functions as a cautionary tale decreeing Americans to transcend a binary frame of reference to avoid further crises from escalating within or beyond American borders.
In this paper, the researcher show how Laila Halabypresents informative perception into the conflicts confrontation Arab Americans in post 9/11 America. Halaby turns the Western look upon the Arab societies. Laila Halaby symbolizes an America which is conspiratorial and submerged with religious enthusiasms. After 9/11, Halaby’s American characters become increasingly fanaticism and mistrustful of Arabs and Islamic cultures. Halaby, then, portrays intolerant and xenophobic American characters overwrought with doubts and discloses a post 9/11 America that is widespread with anti-Arab racism. Halaby also propounds that the widespread American perception of a world patently divided between East and West only arouses global crises such as drought, poverty and war. She also declares that the juveniles that occurred on September 11, 2001, were a direct result of these epidemics. Moreover, Halaby offers a perspective of Americans as ignorantly perceiving the United States as alienated from crises impending all nations. For this reason, Halaby's novel functions as a cautionary story decreeing Americans to transcend a binary frame of reference for avoiding further crises from escalating within or beyond American borders.
This study has the main objective that is, examining the concept of Existentialism in Naguib Mahfouz's novel "The Beggar". In it, Omer Al-Hamzawi, the protagonist of this novel, had chosen the death as an escape from the reality. Omer Al-Hamzawi was looking for the meaning of life and existence. This man who wants to evade his truth in search of new value renews the meaning he finds himself living a double he could not get rid of. This face of life did not die, but it is reflected in new images through the charac ters of the novel and confirms that the truth is ongoing and is pursued to the end. And Omar al-Ha mzawi a goal sought to achieve. It is the "searching for the meaning of life." In order to achieve this lofty goal,the researcher has selected the topic that applies the existentialism to elucidate the burdens, hardships and the sense of being betrayed and disappointed with the values of the idealism, such betrayal and disappointment calls upon images and impressions of frustration and despair on the account of the Egyptians. Therefore, instances of the fictional works of Naguib Mahfouz would draw a fine and satisfactory picture of the plight of the modern man in an existential perspective that matches perfectly the theme of the study in content and medium of an alysis. An analysis for this novel was conducted by the researcher who also reviewed relevant several books and journals and read the opinions and arguments of the critics in order to reveal how this Arab writer dealt with the death as a tool of escape.This study aims at examining the plight of the modern man due to multiple reasons like the effects of the two world wars, and being embedded to the colonial powers and the occupations of the small countries. Such big events have left a big stack on the shoulders of the regular citizens of the colonized countries. Particularly those countries with different ethics and moral codes.
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