A lover's discourse : fictions

This thesis sets a landscape to discuss intimacy as a political tool, using fiction as a methodology to create potency in the Arab world. Its concern with critique is on the actionable level. This document discusses projects that critique realities in Lebanon and the Arab World by proposing (1) that these realities are in fact fictions (2) that can be contested by creating new fictions through cultural practice. The arguments, challenges and defenses happen in public through observations and readings. The corpus of this thesis is the manuscript of a novel written between 2012 and 2015, "The Perfumed Garden: An Autobiography of Another Arab World," and the methodology of writing it.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2017

Author dc:creator

• Majzoub, Raafat, S.M. (Raafat Mohamad Chamseddine) Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Renée Green.

• Architecture.

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• MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/111268

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/111268