At a time when there is hardly a discourse more virulent than that of the alleged clash of civilisations, this book offers a transnational reading of representations of the Arab uprisings. Through its comparison of English-, French- and German-language fiction by authors from diverse backgrounds, it transcends the Anglophone bias of postcolonial studies and demonstrates how, by translating different literary traditions and societal problems into a transnational discourse, securitised Neo-Orientalism has been gaining such momentum. As it brings together approaches from the social sciences with literary close readings, this study not only carves out recurring tropes, frames and figurations which are complicit in rendering a Neo-Orientalist and anti-Muslim imagery more socially acceptable, but it also shows how influential frames of insecurity - precarity, affective masculinity and terror - refract the adverse psychosocial consequences of the neoliberal project into a securitisation of the Other. Retracing how economic and political problems are culturalised into questions of race and gender, it consequently offers a reversal of perspectives, which raises awareness for the insecurity of the securitised.