This paper is an attempt to ,this novel published during the Post 1999 Arab Gulf War, which engages with the subtleties of Muslim African immigrant experience in Britain, also portrays cross-cultural encounters and the complexities of living in the West with different culture. The protagonist in Leila Aboulela’s The Translator moves into a Western territory as a translator, engaging with a new culture ,and resisting Western’s tropes . In order to delve into issues of migration, Aboulela confronts Orientalist and Western hegemonic discourses which vilify Islam; therefore, this thesis aims to investigate how Aboulela uses translation as mean to write back to colonialism and to show how Islam can play a crucial role in governing the life of Muslims in diaspora. This process in Aboulela’s novel is examined with reference to Postcolonialism which is a critical towards ideological discou
