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“Literature in a time of contagion” by Elias Khoury
Samuel Martin
Published online: 20 May 2024
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Book Review
The Modern Arabic Bible: Translation, Dissemination, and Literary Impact,
by Rana Issa, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2022, 252 pp., £85 (hardback), ISBN 9781474467155
Hannah Scott Deuchar
Published online: 28 Mar 2024
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Neoliberal contradictions, necrocapitalist nightmares: questions of human agency and free will in Aḥmad Saʿdāwī’s Frankenstein in Baghdad
Jamil Khader
Published online: 01 Mar 2024
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Mapping exile: post-Arab Spring revolutionaries’ diasporic voices in Serag Mounir’s Diaspora Spring
Khaled Mostafa Karam, Hamdy Ebeid Khalil & Mahmoud El Bagoury
Published online: 19 Feb 2024
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On the animating affect of ṭarab and its (un)translatability
Dina A. Mahmoud
Published online: 09 Feb 2024
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Subjectivity, agency, and the question of gender in Fadwa Tuqan’s post-naksa poetry
Linda Istanbulli
Published online: 05 Feb 2024
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“In the dead of night, a cry” by Ata Nahai
Published online: 17 Jan 2024
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Counter creaturely communities in Emily Nasrallah’s Yawmīyyāt Hirr and Hoda Barakat’s Barīd al-Layl
Yasmine Khayyat
Published online: 13 Dec 2023
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War remains: ruination and resistance in Lebanon
by Yasmine Khayyat, Syracuse, NY, Syracuse UP, 2023, $34.95 (paperback)
Ghenwa Hayek
Published online: 27 Sep 2023
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Exhausting aesthetic critiques of the authoritarian present in Egyptian literature from Ṣunʿallāh Ibrāhīm to Muḥammad Rabīʿ
Brady Patrick Ryan
Published online: 13 Sep 2023
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Climate change and the future of the city: Arabic science fiction as climate fiction in Egypt and Iraq
Teresa Pepe
Published online: 11 Sep 2023
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Iridescent Kuwait: Petro-Modernity and Urban Visual Culture in the Mid-Twentieth Century
by Laura Hindelang, 1st edition, Boston, De Gruyter, 2022, 261 pp., $44.99 (paperback), ISBN: 9783110714661
Kylie Walters
Published online: 17 Jul 2023
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Once upon a time in the anthropocene: myths, legends, and futurity in Turkish climate fiction
Merve Tabur
Published online: 19 Jun 2023
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Garbage, corruption, and political protest in Lebanese literature and film
Maya Aghasi
Published online: 02 May 2023
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Threading the racial capitalocene: on the poetics of affective porosity in Ibrahim al-Koni's Bleeding of the Stone (Nazīf al-ḥajar) and Yoel Hoffmann's Book of Joseph (Sefer Yosef)
Rachel Green
Published online: 21 Feb 2023
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