She considered criticism a minefield. Dalal Anabtawi calls on intellectuals to adopt resistance literature.

Here we talk about the necessity of confronting the intellectual invasion of our cultural environments. Here, we discuss the question of why critics have not succeeded in developing an Arab critical theory through Western theories. We discuss the issue of the role of the critic and the academic critic in confronting the invasion of cultural invasion in the Arab world. We also discuss the topic of the thorny and difficult topic of criticism and how we deal with it.