Mohsen Hamli Libri

This is a revised edition of "Studies in Margaret Drabble" (2001) including papers published between 1997 and 2011 and an interview with Margaret Drabble held on 26 July 1990.

This is a translation into Arabic of Sophocles's Antigone. The book includes Edward F. Walting's 1947 translation of Antigone into English followed by my translation into Arabic. Intended for students of English in particular, the book includes an analysis of Antigone and a list of exam questions.

The image of one's wife's admired professor trespassing one's privacy is an affliction that words cannot depict. But that is not all. Is he the Minotaur?, the bull-headed monster, a teratoid, monstrous figure abhorred because of his inhuman character?, the outcome of the growing inhuman society of the new millennial wived professors of the country? Is his wife, he thought as he looked at her lying beside him asleep, like Pasiphae inside her wooden cow, waiting for him, her sacred white bull, to amble up and mount her? Does she mean that he had failed in his duty? It kind of hurt him now to realize that his cow is having thoughts of her own; thoughts he had never thought she would have.

The phenomenon of anti-Semitism in Tunisia, as respected Jewish and Muslim historians indicate, was alien to the Tunisian society before the arrival of the French in 1881. What I call the French "Protectorate crisis" not only undermined the relative autonomy the Jews had always enjoyed, but also established an unprecedented concept called 'Jewish element' indigenous Muslims and French settlers were taught to circumvent. Determined to "contain" what they considered a "Jewish peril," the French alienated those already naturalized French (the educated elite and the rich Grana who were won over) and sowed discord in all its forms between the "unwanted" proletariat Jews and their Muslim compatriots. This book discusses the Protectorate crisis in Tunisia and the ordeal of the Jews, the French complicity in the 1917-1918 Anti-Jewish Riots, the post WWI Anti-Semitist Current, the 1940-1943 Jewish Victims in Tunisia and the French Imbroglio, the 1948 controversy over the accession of Jews to the Caïdal Corps, and how independent Tunisia "othered" Jews.

'If you think you're a Jew,' she said to herself, 'you're a Jew.' She liked the idea of someone defining himself or herself. She liked being a Jew. She wanted to be one. Her husband had killed Islam in her. She was ashamed to admit it, but she did.When a woman falls in love in her Islamist husband's Jewish friend, hardly can anyone imagine what is in store for them