This research project sought to learn about the views of EFL instructors at post-secondary level in the UAE on the significance of literature in language teaching and the use of culturally-familiar literature in EFL classrooms. In addition, it aimed to find out whether reading culturally-familiar literature positively impacts the reading comprehension of EFL students compared to reading culturally less-familiar literature. A questionnaire was used to learn about the instructors views and an exploratory study involving 76 EFL students was designed to test whether cultural-familiarity had any...