Fictitious capital Elizabeth M. Holt) - Silk, Cotton, and the Rise of the Arabic Novel

The ups and downs of silk, cotton and stocks synchopated with serialized novels in the late nineteenth-century Arabic press, time itself was changing. Khalil al-Khuri, Salim al-Bustani, and Jurji Zaydan wrote novels of debt, dissimulation, and risk, increasingly legible as tools of French and British empire.