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

Lateef Wisam Hamid
Lateef Wisam Hamid
   | Nov 30, 2017
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Published Online: Nov 30, 2017
Page range: 31 - 36
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2017-0005
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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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Linguistics and Semiotics, Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines, Linguistics, other, Germanic Languages, English
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