Hatem Mohammed Al-Shamea

An Arab Latin-American Cultural Dialogue Hatem Mohammed Al-Shamea

This book is a comparative study that brings a literary dialogue between Arab culture and Latin American culture. It has used the intertextual theory to decipher the friendly relationship between the world cultures. The study sheds light on the theory and then gradually brings the reader to the depth of the discourse. The study is a search for the identity of the text as Intertextuality is a theory of a literary text that expands and widens the identity of the text to include its origins in and its uses of texts of the past, and what happens between "inter" a text of the present and a text of the past may be covert or overt, implicit or explicit, hidden or open. In view of this, the study reveals the correlations between Paulo Coelho, The Zahir and Wajdi Al-Ahdal's A Land without Jasmine. The study aims at analyzing the convergent motives between Coelho's themes and Al-Ahdal's.