Dams were unique in the scope and manner in which they altered the distribution of resources across space and time, among entire communities and ecosystems. They o ered more than just a promise of agricultural development or technical progress. For many postcolonial governments, this ability to rearrange the natural and social environment became a means to demonstrate the strength of the modern...

this article is a postcolonial study about season of migration to the north a novel written by tayyeb salih (the renowned sudanese writer). the novel, season of migration to the north, is the most famous postcolonial arabic novel which has caught the attention of so many literary critics including edward sa’eed, the palestinian-american literary theoretician, and even in 2001, the academy of ar...

postcolonial feminism is an exploration into the interactions of colonialism with gender, nation, class, race, and sexualities in different contexts of women’s lives. postcolonial feminism or the ‘third world feminism’ originated as a critique of mainstreams in the western feminist theorists, investigating the portrayal of women in the literature and society of the colonized countries as margin...

This paper reports "work in progress" on a project which I've titled, "The Spaces of Transnational Cultures". The aim of the project is to build on, but be methodologically different from, my earlier research on the architecture and urbanism of colonial and postcolonial cities in which the principal objective had been to demonstrate the inherently constitutive relationship between the political...