The gender exchange between memoirs and autobiography in the book “I bear witness that there is no god but you” by Imad al-Din Khalil

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Memoirs are one of the most accommodating genres of writing for the experiences of self-writing, expressing memories and details of the incidents they go through on multiple, intertwined and intertwined levels, which together form a semi-personal experience, and documenting this experience in narrative writing, which in turn engages with adjacent writing forms, as it goes beyond formal specificity and overlaps and interrelates with adjacent writing genres and forms, as this writing goes beyond the familiar and prevailing and creates its own artistic style in order to produce the artistic writing experience in a way that achieves its privacy and uniqueness. Although memoirs are autobiographical narratives, they focus on narrating external events often and participate in presenting a self-analysis that may be biased, as memoirs adopt the role of the historian or transmitter who seeks to document events and present them with the aim of testifying to them or interpreting the action or saying after they occur. Despite this, they are distinguished from simple description in that they are not limited to presenting what the saw of the events, but rather include highlighting the writer's role in them and his narrative techniques or expressing his position towards them.

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The gender exchange between memoirs and autobiography in the book “I bear witness that there is no god but you” by Imad al-Din Khalil. (2026). College of Basic Education Research Journal, 22(1), 401-415. https://doi.org/10.33899/berj.2026.Vol22.Iss1.61922
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The gender exchange between memoirs and autobiography in the book “I bear witness that there is no god but you” by Imad al-Din Khalil. (2026). College of Basic Education Research Journal, 22(1), 401-415. https://doi.org/10.33899/berj.2026.Vol22.Iss1.61922