This research critically examines cultural conflict in Leila Aboulela’s Bird Summons using textual and descriptive methods and adapting sociological and psychological social identity theory as a framework. It uses inductive content analysis to explore the book’s themes and comparative analysis to compare themes of cultural conflict with similar literary works. The article concludes that the story revolves around the Afro-Arab characters’ effort to integrate into the Western system, which differs from their culture. Themes identified include intercultural marriage, culture shock, migration, cultural adjustment and ethnocentrism.
