Analysing prominent novelists such as Ibrahim al-Kuni and Hisham Matar, alongside lesser-known and emerging voices, this book introduces the themes and genres of the Libyan novel during the al-Qadhafi era. Exploring latent political protest and environmental lament in the writing of novelists in exile and in the Jamahiriyya, Charis Olszok focuses on the prominence of encounters between humans, animals and the land, the poetics of vulnerability that emerge from them, and the vision of humans as creatures (makhlūqāt) in which they are framed.
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23 June 2025
Professor Barak Kushner gave this talk at the Rethinking Empires and Trans-Imperial History Conference at Ewha Woman’s University, Seoul, Korea, 19 June 2025.
20 June 2025
Dr Elizabeth Monier, Assistant Professor of Modern Arabic Studies at the University of Cambridge, was interviewed by Bloomberg TV on 20 June.
05 June 2025
On Friday, 30 May, Professor Barak Kushner gave a lecture at Sun Yat Sen University on the history of ramen and Sino-Japan relations.
05 June 2025
Professor Kushner did a long interview on ramen and other topics which has been published in three parts.
03 June 2025
A new documentary on the legendary Sigmund Freud, with the director, Yair Qedar
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