Rachel Green is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Israel/Palestine Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her work has appeared in key journals, including the Journal of Arabic Literature, Middle Eastern Literatures and Comparative Literature. Literary Empathy in the Modern Middle East (Edinburgh University Press, 2027) is her first book.

• Note on Transliteration and TranslationAcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroduction: Literary Empathy in the World-System: A Historical Materialist Framework1. Literary Empathy, Literary Enclosure Across the Middle Eastern World-System2. Empathy as Mediator of Class-based (Non-)Sight in Ghassan Kanafani’s Kuwaiti Map of Dreams3. Identification, Recognition, and the Palestinian City: Literary Empathy as Class Formation/Contestation in Post-Oslo Palestinian Writing4. Facing the Occupied Palestinian Territories in the Hebrew Literary Imaginary5. The Trackless Desert Between Exuberance and Catastrophe in Bothayna Al-Essa’s Lost in Mecca and Abdulrahman Munif’s Cities of SaltPostscript: On Literary Empathy and Social TotalityWorks CitedIndex

Rachel Green is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Israel/Palestine Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her work has appeared in key journals, including the Journal of Arabic Literature, Middle Eastern Literatures and Comparative Literature. Literary Empathy in the Modern Middle East (Edinburgh University Press, 2027) is her first book.

• Note on Transliteration and TranslationAcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroduction: Literary Empathy in the World-System: A Historical Materialist Framework1. Literary Empathy, Literary Enclosure Across the Middle Eastern World-System2. Empathy as Mediator of Class-based (Non-)Sight in Ghassan Kanafani’s Kuwaiti Map of Dreams3. Identification, Recognition, and the Palestinian City: Literary Empathy as Class Formation/Contestation in Post-Oslo Palestinian Writing4. Facing the Occupied Palestinian Territories in the Hebrew Literary Imaginary5. The Trackless Desert Between Exuberance and Catastrophe in Bothayna Al-Essa’s Lost in Mecca and Abdulrahman Munif’s Cities of SaltPostscript: On Literary Empathy and Social TotalityWorks CitedIndex

Rachel Green is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Israel/Palestine Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her work has appeared in key journals, including the Journal of Arabic Literature, Middle Eastern Literatures and Comparative Literature. Literary Empathy in the Modern Middle East (Edinburgh University Press, 2027) is her first book.

• Note on Transliteration and TranslationAcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroduction: Literary Empathy in the World-System: A Historical Materialist Framework1. Literary Empathy, Literary Enclosure Across the Middle Eastern World-System2. Empathy as Mediator of Class-based (Non-)Sight in Ghassan Kanafani’s Kuwaiti Map of Dreams3. Identification, Recognition, and the Palestinian City: Literary Empathy as Class Formation/Contestation in Post-Oslo Palestinian Writing4. Facing the Occupied Palestinian Territories in the Hebrew Literary Imaginary5. The Trackless Desert Between Exuberance and Catastrophe in Bothayna Al-Essa’s Lost in Mecca and Abdulrahman Munif’s Cities of SaltPostscript: On Literary Empathy and Social TotalityWorks CitedIndex