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Between Representation and Reality: Disabled Bodies in Arabic Literature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 January 2019

Abir Hamdar
Abir Hamdar*
Affiliation:
Durham University, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham, UK; e-mail: abir.hamdar@durham.ac.uk
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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 51 , Issue 1 , February 2019 , pp. 127 - 130
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NOTES

1 Kanafani, Ghassan, Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories, trans. Kilpatrick, Hilary (London: Lynne Reinner Publishers, 1999), 64, 39–40Google Scholar.

2 Thompson, Rosemarie Garland, Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997), 15Google Scholar.

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6 Ibid.

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13 Bitar, Imraʾa, 102, 98. My translation.

14 Quoted in Diana Alghoul, “Fighting the Taboo of Disability in the Arab world,” MEMO: Middle East Monitor, 3 December 2016, accessed 18 September 2018, https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20161203-fighting-the-taboo-of-disability-in-the-arab-world/.