Arsene Lupin, Mona Baker

Fiction and Colonial Identities: Arsène Lupin in Arabic

August 28, 2015 Mona Baker Articles, Culture, Egypt, Samah Selim, Translating Dissent, Translation

Middle Eastern Literatures Volume 13, Issue 2, 2010, pages 191-210 Special Issue: Arabic Literature in Egypt at the Beginning of the 20th Century in Search of New Aesthetics: Al-Muwaylihi and Contemporaries DOI: 10.1080/1475262X.2010.487317 Samah Selim Along with Ponson du Terrail’s Rocambole and Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, Maurice Leblanc’s Arsène Lupin is one of the most famous popular fiction figures in the

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Arsene Lupin, Samah Selim

The mysterious fall and rise of the Arab crime novel

October 6, 2014 Mona Baker Culture, Egypt

Marcia Lynx Qualey Last updated: 28 September 2014 Why are gentleman-thieves and murder mysteries making a comeback in Arabic popular fiction? When Egyptian novelist and photographer Ahmed Mourad was asked earlier this year, why so few Egyptians were writing crime novels, he said that the genre was new, “and anything new is usually accompanied by a lot of attack and criticism”. Then