Season of Migration

Season of Migration to the North tells the story of a nameless narrator and how he has returned to his village after 7 years of studying in Europe. The narrator upon returning to his village meets a man named Mustafa Sa'eed who tells the narrator his story of the West. Mustafa Sa'eed is a man that since a young age has been drawn to the West and we learn that as a student in Europe would seduce women to get them in bed with him. The women are drawn to Mustafa because he is from the East and depicts everything they believe the East is like. I believe that Mustafa's sexual "domination" of the women in a way represents a domination of the Western culture. Mustafa, in a sense, embodies the East, a part of the world that has been colonized by Europeans for centuries and he is fighting this colonization by "colonizing" their women.