چکیده (انگلیسی):

This article explores the environment’s resistance in the face of “Oil” discovery in Abdel Rahman Munif’snovel the
Cities of Salt. Linking the areas of environmentalism, postcolonialism, and Oil discovery, the article claims that Oil is
the colonizer which has colonized the environment. The article then shows the environment resistance which is
portrayed by Munif indirectly by several episodes of personifying the environment and by the people’s nature-like
responses and reactions. The article ends up with tracing the people’s cultural displacement due to the colonization of
their environment.