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International Journal of Arabic-English Studies

ISSN 1680-0982

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The Dream as a Diasporic Para‑technological Allegory in Laila Lalami’s The Dream Hotel

International Journal of Arabic-English Studies October 6, 2026 Bayan AlAmmouri

This paper examines Laila Lalami’s The Dream Hotel (2025) as a technological dystopia that exposes the neoliberal extension of market‑driven rationality into the human psyche. Neoliberalism attempts to extend the figure of the homo economicus into a seamless homo technologicus seeking to capture even the most intimate terrains of subjectivity—dreams, emotions, and aspirations. The novel...