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Eman El-Meligi’s slim volume Deconstructing Hegemony: Contemporary Middle East Literature, Theory, and Historiography is a study of Middle Eastern Laureates invoking the theoretical framework of stalwarts like Michel Foucault, Edward Said, Julia Kristeva, and Patrick Murphy. Eman El-Meligi is a locally spun academic from the University of Alexandria, in Egypt. She has published various books on literary theory in which she has examined Middle Eastern texts with the modernist or postmodernist analytical tools. Her rigorous analysis and the way she articulates complex ideas are commendable. The writers whose works she has examined in the first chapter of this book are David Grossman an Israeli author, Mourid Barghouti a Palestinian poet and writer, and Louise Erdrich an American novelist, poet and writer of children’s books featuring Native American characters and settings. El-Meligi has also discussed Amos Oz (1939-2018) an Israeli novelist, journalist and intellectua ....