![107824.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmewVmaWByWJCyhvSisqhHsECjbdPYgu1AJS2iKrMEtiSj/107824.jpg)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