Digital literature in Iran and Arab countries (Comparative analysis of examples of works)

Nowadays, digital technologies have strongly influenced all aspects of our daily life via redefining our communicative practices and habits of text reading and textualizing. Accordingly, a need to change the role of literature and literary discourse in the contemporary media space of Iran and the Arab world has been felt and steps have been taken in this respect. By adopting a descriptive-analytical method, the present study sets out to make a scholarly account addressing the experience of Iranian and Arabic digital literature, exploring certain works produced by them comparatively, and discuss their degree of aesthetic creativity in terms of form and content. As the findings revealed, despite the historical precedence of Iranian digital poets and writers over Arabs, there is a significant digital division between Iran and Arab countries. Although the Arab countries are highly distant from digital literature of the West, they have produced aesthetically more creative literary works, compared to Iran. These works more actively follow the processes of participatory or collective creation, and being aesthetically creative in form and content.