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Abd Al-Rahman Munif (1933-2004) is an Arab novelist who has drawn much attention to the modernization and urbanization of many Arab towns and their shift into cities. In most of his works, Munif is charmed by places, cities and the changes that occur to them to the extent that cities do not merely stand as spatial elements of his works but are considered characters of their own. This book sheds light on the changes that happened to the Arab Peninsula and to Oman. In his works, Munif assumes the role of an an urban anthropologist whose fascination with places and people is unmistakably evident.

For centuries, humans have been suffering from exile and its devastating consequences. However, the concept of exile has evolved to include other categories and terminology and to study exile in fiction only is an underestimation to its magnitude. This study draws on different disciplines to examine the exilic experience and its effect on identity. The work uses examples from African and Anglophone literature to clarify the writer's point of view. Nevertheless, literature is but the basis and the tools for such an investigation are those of sociology and psychology.The theoretical part is...