Professor Brinda J. Mehta (Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies; affiliated faculty in WGSS) has published a new book! The Wounds of War and Conflict in Contemporary Arab Women’s Writings from North Africa and the Middle East takes a postcolonial feminist approach on anti-war narratives by exploring the works of North African and Middle Eastern women writers.
Professor Mehta, is an affiliated WGSS faculty member at Northeastern’s Oakland campus. This book covers conflicts including the continued occupation of Palestine, the Algerian War of Independence, the Lebanese civil war, the invasion of Iraq, the Yazidi genocide in Iraq, the Yemen civil war, and the Syrian civil war. Using the works of female writers, Mehta examines how their writing served as resistance, bringing to light the overlooked role women had in these times.
To learn more from the author, consider taking her online synchronous course Women, Gender, and Cultural Production in the Global South (INMI 2220) next semester. Click here to learn more about the book. Congratulations, Professor Mehta!
