Maria Grazia Sciortino

Women Who Dissent: Boundary-Breaking Narratives of Resistance in the Writing of Fatḥiyya Dabiš

This paper examines the intersection of literature and feminist resistance through an analysis of Fatḥiyya Dabiš’s Ṣamt al-nawāqīs (The Silence of the Bells, 2018) and Mīlānīn (Melanin, 2019). Using boundaries – textual, generic, social, and identity-based – and dissident writing as the guiding analytical frame...