Rehnuma Sazzad is Research Associate at the Centre for Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies (CCLPS) at SOAS. Her monograph Language and Nationalism in the Decolonized World is forthcoming and she has published various book chapters as well as articles in South Asian Cultural Studies, International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies and Middle Eastern Studies. She completed a PhD in Literary and Cultural Studies at Nottingham Trent University and was awarded MAs from both the University of Manchester and the University of Dhaka.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter One. Exile and Intellectual Practice Chapter Two. Middle Eastern Artists as Exilic Intellectuals Chapter Three. Exile as Resistance Chapter Four. The Place of Writing in ExileChapter Five. Exile in the Contexts of Postcolonialism andConclusion

An important contribution to the growing field on the history and criticism of Arab intellectual thought.’ - Anastasia Valassopoulos, Senior Lecturer in World Literatures, University of Manchester, `A thoughtful study of the experience of exile among Arab intellectuals in the twentieth century.’ - Robert J. C. Young, Silver Professor of English and Comparative Literature, New York University

Rehnuma Sazzad is Research Associate at the Centre for Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies (CCLPS) at SOAS. Her monograph Language and Nationalism in the Decolonized World is forthcoming and she has published various book chapters as well as articles in South Asian Cultural Studies, International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies and Middle Eastern Studies. She completed a PhD in Literary and Cultural Studies at Nottingham Trent University and was awarded MAs from both the University of Manchester and the University of Dhaka.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter One. Exile and Intellectual Practice Chapter Two. Middle Eastern Artists as Exilic Intellectuals Chapter Three. Exile as Resistance Chapter Four. The Place of Writing in ExileChapter Five. Exile in the Contexts of Postcolonialism andConclusion

An important contribution to the growing field on the history and criticism of Arab intellectual thought.’ - Anastasia Valassopoulos, Senior Lecturer in World Literatures, University of Manchester, `A thoughtful study of the experience of exile among Arab intellectuals in the twentieth century.’ - Robert J. C. Young, Silver Professor of English and Comparative Literature, New York University

Rehnuma Sazzad is Research Associate at the Centre for Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies (CCLPS) at SOAS. Her monograph Language and Nationalism in the Decolonized World is forthcoming and she has published various book chapters as well as articles in South Asian Cultural Studies, International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies and Middle Eastern Studies. She completed a PhD in Literary and Cultural Studies at Nottingham Trent University and was awarded MAs from both the University of Manchester and the University of Dhaka.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter One. Exile and Intellectual Practice Chapter Two. Middle Eastern Artists as Exilic Intellectuals Chapter Three. Exile as Resistance Chapter Four. The Place of Writing in ExileChapter Five. Exile in the Contexts of Postcolonialism andConclusion

An important contribution to the growing field on the history and criticism of Arab intellectual thought.’ - Anastasia Valassopoulos, Senior Lecturer in World Literatures, University of Manchester, `A thoughtful study of the experience of exile among Arab intellectuals in the twentieth century.’ - Robert J. C. Young, Silver Professor of English and Comparative Literature, New York University