By so doing, the diasporic women identity is revealed in a state of becoming, straddled in between two hostile cultures of the Orient and the Occident. Fadia Faqir (2007)., The Cry of the Dove: A Novel., New York. Moreover, it makes use of some psychoanalytical notions such as ego, alter ego, and introjection. Although the Arabian immigrant female protagonist in Faqirs novel undergoes trials and. Thus, the paper builds upon writings of Edward Said, Homi Bhabha, Sudesh Mishra and Elaine Showalter. Fadia Faqir’s novel, The Cry of the Dove, is analyzed as an example of Muslim Arab diaspoetics. Stereotyping, introjection, male gaze, colonial sentiments are analyzed to show repressive and aggressive schemes that affect the processes of women identity formation in both cultures.

They create ambivalent identities that show attraction to and repulsion of both cultures of the Occident and the Orient. Muslim Arab women writers in diaspora produce diasporic literature with identities in transit. Through deconstructing Faqirs The Cry of the dove(2007) and using Homi Bhabhas notion of Hybridity, the study hereby brings into focus the examination.

The present paper examines the Arab folkloric character of Scheherazade within the paradigm of diaspoetics through doublings, anachronistic spaces, and contrapuntalism to interrogate the hybrid and ambivalent Muslim Arab women identity oscillating between Oriental heritage and Occidental culture.

The Cry of the Dove by Fadia Faqir