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Subject(s)

• People with disabilities in motion pictures [Browse]
• Literature, Modern—Muslim authors—History and criticism [Browse]
• People with disabilities in literature [Browse]

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Contents

• Introduction
• Al Qur'an's teachings with respect to the disabled
• The Tunisian deaf mute through the lens of American Orientalism
• Tunisian camera's treatment of disability
• The disabled native: ressource humaine for the French: a literary study of Algerian Rachid Mimouni's Tombéza
• The case of female characters with disabilities: Moroccan Fatima vs. "cure or kill": a disability study of Tabar Ben Jelloun's L'enfant de sable [Sand child]
• Disability and shame in Salman Rushdie's novel Shame: what it means to be a Pakistani disabled postcolonial woman
• The Egyptian visually-challenged Sheikh Husni's treatment of blindness in the Egyptian film Al Kitkat
• Iraqi in Paris: speaking volumes: the bond in deafness of an Iraqi father and son
• Conclusion.

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ISBN

1-4985-6958-7

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