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THE CLASH OF THE EAST AND WEST IN MARYAM JAMEELAH’S AHMAD KHALIL: THE STORY OF A PALESTINIAN REFUGEE

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THE CLASH OF THE EAST AND WEST IN MARYAM JAMEELAH’S AHMAD KHALIL: THE STORY OF A PALESTINIAN REFUGEE

Abstract

This study analyzes two cultures that are in conflict on several aspects: The East and West. Religious, social, cultural differences are among these clashes. Yet, the conflict is not a natural and innate one. On the contrary, it is a result of imagined borders, prejudices, political and economical rivalries between the societies. Maryam Jameelah, formerly a Zionist and Jew, and then accepting Islam, is an insider to both civilisations. In her dealing the conflict she brings forth the differing values and cultural differences of the two societies and depicts the conflict. She concludes that it is not pertinent to values or cultural differences. The proximity of values and the cultures of the two have changed through time. Colonial penetration of the West to the East, modernity process condemning the East to the past and decadency hindering and stigmatizing the East also aggravated the clash. In “Ahmad Khalil” the conflict between the Zionists and Palestinians is told by Maryam Jameelah. She depicts that Zionism is an extension and amalgamation of this one-sided and constructed process that is dividing the world. As Joe Kovel says Zionist nationalism became not the restoration of a land but the establishment of Jewish colonial control over that land, and coordinatively the elimination of its indigenous inhabitants. Regina Sharif believes that this bad idea is nurtured in the west and supported by non- Jewish people of Europe on the basis of interest. The acceptance of the idea does not stem from compassion towards Jewish people.

Keywords

East , West , Zionism , Islam , Conflict , New Historicism , Nationalism , Imagined Communities , Memory

Kaynakça

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Kaynak Göster

APA
Ermiş, G. (2021). THE CLASH OF THE EAST AND WEST IN MARYAM JAMEELAH’S AHMAD KHALIL: THE STORY OF A PALESTINIAN REFUGEE. Bingöl Araştırmaları Dergisi, 8(1), 155-198. https://doi.org/10.53440/bad.1038202