Abstract: This article examines postmodern experimentations in Jamal Naji’s al-Ṭarīq ilā Balḥārit and Ibrahim Nasrallah’s Barārī al-Ḥummā, and their representation of both the hostile desert and the slow advent of modernity in isolated villages whose peripherality embodies the physical and psychological alienation of Palestinians as well as their political and socioeconomic frustrations.
