The female gaze characterizes Mustafa Sa'eed's self-worth in Tayeh Salih's Season of Migration to the North. As he conforms to stereotypes of Arab-Africans during his interactions with Western women, Mustafa assumes made-up personalities,...

In Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih, the story of the mysterious, prodigious, and devilish Mustafa Sa’eed is told through the eyes of an unnamed narrator. Although Mustafa is not directly present for most of the book, his actions,...

On the surface, William Shakespeare’s Othello, the Moor of Venice (1604) and Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North (1966) are very similar. The title character of Othello, the Moor of Venice is a man of color whose marriage with a white...

The mind tends to remain at a stasis, neither consumed by pure ecstasy nor ridden with fearful anxiety. However, there may come a point in time when thoughts fluctuate between the two extremes until we are jolted back to reality’s state of...

56% of audiences for the premier The Legend of Tarzan were women. 34% were men. The same is true for George of the Jungle and 300. Film School Rejects author Kristen Lopez hypothesizes that perhaps the turnout was for Alexander Skarsgard's...

Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North was first published in 1969, and has come to be regarded as outstanding in its genre. Originally written in Arabic, the book features notable parallels to Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, which it...

Season of Migration to the North (henceforth, Seasons) is a post-colonial Sudanese novel by author Tayeb Salih which records the life of the narrator after his return to his village, Wad Hamid, after staying for seven years in England. A new man,...

V.S. Naipaul’s Half-A-Life and Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration To The North are two popular and successful postcolonial works of fiction. Both novels include, in some form, the story of a young man from a non-European continent living and...

The toxic and destructive nature of Mustafa Saeed’s relationship with Jean Morris is not fully revealed until the end of the novel. The startling extent of their unnatural and twisted romance steadily raises both tension and thrill for the reader...

Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the Northwas published in 1966 during the ten years following the withdrawal of British forces from Sudan, and the plot takes place at about the same time. It was a tumultuous decade, an interregnum plagued by...

Though unity is devotedly sought after by societies, perfect harmony is rarely achieved. In the story “A Handful of Dates”, the love of money serves as a serious threat to the unity of the small Arabian community. Yet, the story’s focus does not...