Layla AlAmmar's clear-eyed and crisp writing in this important book makes it required reading for scholars interested in liberatory, anti-colonial and anti-patriarchal thought. AlAmmar's critical analysis of Arab women's writing comes from a place of deep and penetrating understanding of Arab culture and history. This book deconstructs the cliched borders between men and women's writing, theory, and literature.

Prof. Tahrir Hamdi, Director, Arab Open University, Jordan

Layla AlAmmar's Neopatriarchy and Trauma in Arab Women's Literature offers a probing look at the intersections of 'trauma' with key symbols and concepts that have defined self and nation in the Arab world. Her case studies call out efforts to decolonize concepts of trauma, showing how the field has (like postcolonial studies more broadly) neglected the experience of the Arab world, and the experiences of Arab women in particular.

Dr Nora Parr, author of Novel Palestine: Nation through the works of Ibrahim Nasrallah (2023), UK

Ambitious and wide-ranging, Neopatriarchy and Trauma in Arab Women's Literature reanimates neopatriarchy as a critical framework for exploring Arab women's creative engagements with trauma. With great nuance, AlAmmar presents intergenerational and colonial trauma as both systemic and historical, framing women's writing as resistance, archive, and intellectual work that exposes trauma's embeddedness in the gender politics of Arab society.

Anastasia Valassopoulos, Professor, The University of Manchester, UK