This paper explores the representation of identity in the novel, Abwab al-Fajr from a post-colonial semiotic perspective, focusing on the story's narrative and rhetorical structure. This analysis identified two types of major narratives that grapple with the text, the colonial and the resistance. The paper concludes that the characters' narrative identities are formed in the context of colonial violence, with the novel adopting a post-colonial perspective in its cultural representation of images of the self, identity, and history.