الملخص الإنجليزي
Image of woman in the novel "Gate of the Sun" by Elias Khoury Foreign reporters described Palestinian woman as the distinguished image in the intifada (uprising), and of course Arab novelists turned to the role of women and portrayed in their novels her heroisms and feelings, her emotions, and hopes, her disappointments, through occasionally realistic images and sometimes symbolic. The Arab novelist was aware of the extent of Palestinian Arab woman's movement links to the society and the national mater, describing it as an effective force in the course of construction and Liberation, in addition to being arts source rich in expressive and inspiring signs.
This study presents the image of women in gate of the Sun, where Elias Khoury observed different women models have thrived in Palestine since 1948 in all social levels.
But due to the daily realities of the occupation that is trying to form its molecules, such models women sometimes conclude that dreams can not be achieved as long as the occupation exists, and there is no escape but only through the resistance to the occupation and defeating it, and by strongly and steadily withstand in the face of the occupier.
The image of woman in his novel is the best form and tool through which he reflected the tragedy of the Palestinian reality, and the violent history, who wrote the Palestinian story by letters of blood, it is the story of Greatest Palestine, which breeds tens of stories and tell generation after generation.
How does Elias Khoury capture this reality? And how does he picture the woman and from which angle? And how much space does she occupy in the novel?
