Journal of Arabic Literature 44

Arabic Literature, Criticism and Intellectual Thought from the Nahḍah to the Present, Part II, 2013

The Romantic Discourse of Ameen Rihani and Percy Shelley

Author: Youssef M. Choueiri

Homeward Bound: Ḥusayn Muruwwah’s Integrative Quest for Authenticity

Author: Yoav Di-Capua

The Unbearable Heaviness of Being: The Suicide of the Intellectual in Rabīʿ Jābir’s Rālf Rizqallāh through the Looking Glass

Author: Zeina G. Halabi

“Bread or Freedom”: The Congress for Cultural Freedom, the CIA, and the Arabic Literary Journal Ḥiwār (1962-67)

Author: Elizabeth M. Holt

Dounia Badini, La Revue Shiʿr / Poésie et la modernité poétique arabe, Beyrouth (1957-1970), Paris: Sindbad/Actes Sud, 2009. Pp. 496. Dounia Badini, Une figure de la modernité poétique libanaise: Ounsi el-Hage, Beirut: Université Saint-Joseph, 2007. Pp. 260.

Author: Robyn Creswell

Nadia G. Yaqub. Pens, Swords, and the Springs of Art: The Oral Poetry Dueling of Palestinian Weddings in the Galilee. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2007. Pp. 378.

Author: Bridget Connelly

Florence Martin. Screens and Veils: Maghrebi Women’s Cinema. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2011. Pp. 288.

Author: Katarzyna Pieprzak

Sasha Dehghani. Martyrium und Messianismus. Die Geburtsstunde des Bahāʾītums. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2011. Pp. 303.

Author: Rahel Fischbach

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