Hanene Lahiani

From Hunger to Hospitality: Food, Memory, and Collective Identity in Mohammed Dib’s La Grande Maison and Diana Abu-Jaber’s Crescent

Background This study explored food memory in Mohammed Dib’s La Grande Maison and Diana Abu-Jaber’s Crescent. Recent scholarship conceptualizes food as a symbolic and cultural medium that shapes memory, identity, exile, trauma, and belonging rather than merely satisfying physical...