The cartography of Arabness and Transnational Feminism in FadiaFaqir’sMy Name is Selma and AhdafSoueif’s The Map of Love

Abstract

In the post 9/11, Arab ethnicity has strongly become an issue of multiple studies; be it literary, sociological, political, and psychological. The responses to that event, that has called into questions many of the assumptions about world relations, and to the ensuing war on terrorism, has indeed pushed the Arab writers, male and female, to engage in their novels with the ongoing discussions of the Arabs’ (re) definition of identity in the newly rising context.