Static Forms: Writing the Present in the Modern Middle East
Author:   Shir Alon
Publisher:   Columbia University Press
ISBN:  

9780231215954


Pages:   264
Publication Date:   28 October 2025
Format:   Hardback
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Static Forms: Writing the Present in the Modern Middle East


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Author:   Shir Alon
Publisher:   Columbia University Press
Imprint:   Columbia University Press
ISBN:  

9780231215954


ISBN 10:   0231215959
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   28 October 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Static Forms is one of the most dynamic, invigorating, erudite books I’ve read about contemporary Middle Eastern literature. Alon teaches us how to read the story of Palestinian “ongoing Nakba,” or violence in Egypt, Israel, and Lebanon, with an eye toward the literature of resistance. It is the literary form, she shows, that exposes the “suspended present” of occupation and oppression, and how they cannibalize our past, present, and future. -- Nitzan Lebovic, author of <i>Homo Temporalis: German-Jewish Thinkers on Time</i>


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Shir Alon is an assistant professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Minnesota.

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