The PhD thesis entitled (The vision of the self in the novel of Arab women, novels by the Omani writer Ghalia Al Saeed) was discussed in the Department of Arabic Language at the College of Arts at the University of Basrah.

The thesis presented by researcher Amani Jamil Jassim included an introduction and three chapters (seeing the self from an ontological perspective, seeing the self from an ideological perspective, feminine writing, and representations of the fictional world).

This study embodied an attempt to reveal the vision of the self and its representations, within the narrative text, in the world of novels by the Omani writer Ghalia Al Saeed, through her six novels (Days in Paradise, Patient and Authentic, Scattered Years, The Sickness of Waiting (both parts), The Madness of Despair, and Harat Al-Awar).

For this, the study seeks to examine the texts from several aspects:

The first is the writer’s self, and how it worked to shape the fictional world through its vision of the world. Second, the narrator, who plays a fundamental role in shaping and manipulating the story. Third, the character, being the basic self, which created the fictional world and the writer made it a subject of depiction and a basic goal of imagination.