The postcolonial Arabic novel : debating ambivalence / by Mūsawī, Muḥsin Jāsim

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Gender, nation, and the Arabic novel : Egypt, 1892-2008 / by El Sadda, Hoda

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: gender, nation, and the canon of the Arabic novel -- Beginnings: discourses on ideal manhood and ideal womanhood -- The new man: conflicting masculinities in the fiction of Haikal, al-Mazini, and al-Rafi'i -- Tawfiq al-Hakim and the civilizational novel -- Naguib Mahfouz's trilogy: a national allegory -- Latifa al-Zayyat: gender and nationalist politics -- Defeated masculinities in Sonallah Ibrahim -- The personal is political: debating the new writing in the 1990s -- The postcolonial nomadic novel -- Liminal spaces/liminal identities: Hamdi Abu Golayyel, Ahmed Alaidy, and Muhammad 'Ala' al-Din -- Postscript: after Tahrir: imagining otherwise.…”
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Poetics of love in the Arabic novel : nation-state, modernity and tradition / by Ouyang, Wen-chin

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: presenting the past: the Arabic novel and the dialectics of modernisation -- Nation-state -- Nation-without-state -- Legitimacy of the nation -- Impropriety of the state -- Decolonisation -- Modernisation -- Afterword: the future is a foreign country.…”
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The Edinburgh Companion to the Arab Novel in English : the Politics of Anglo Arab and Arab American Literature and Culture. by Gana, Nouri

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments; Notes on the Contributors; Introduction: The Intellectual History and Contemporary Significance of the Arab Novel in English; Novel Formations: Transnational Collaborative Entanglements; The Preoccupations of the Arab Novel in English; Notes; Part I -- Constellations: Modernity, Empire and Postcoloniality; Chapter 1 -- The Rise of the Arab American Novel: Ameen Rihani's The Book of Khalid; Notes; Chapter 2 -- Beyond Orientalism: Khalid, the Secular City and the Transcultural Self; Khalid, Migration and the Arab Experience of Secularization.…”
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The Edinburgh Companion to the Arab Novel in English The Politics of Anglo Arab and Arab American Literature and Culture. by Gana, Nouri

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A comparative analysis of the great American and Arab novel : a study of the USA and Cairo trilogies / by Ontl, Alen

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Transforming Loss into Beauty : Essays on Arabic Literature and Culture in Honor of Magda Al-Nowaihi

Table of Contents: “…Tawfiq al-Hakim, Yusuf al-Qa'id, and the "mature" Arabic novel /…”
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Tradition, modernity, and postmodernity in arabic literature : essays in honor of professor issa j.

Table of Contents: “…Translated from the Arabic; Sindbad the Sailor and the Early Arabic Novel; "The Infiltrators," a short story by Hanna Ibrahim. …”
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Masculine identity in the fiction of the Arab East since 1967 by Aghacy, Samira

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Standing by the Ruins : Elegiac Humanism in Wartime and Postwar Lebanon. by Seigneurie, Ken

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Gendering Culture in Greater Syria : Intellectuals and Ideology in the Late Ottoman Period. by Zachs, Fruma

Table of Contents: “…Love, Marriage and Social Reform in the Early Arabic Novel; 3. Repaving the Path of Muru'a: Manly Virtue and the Emergence of a Modern Masculinity in Greater Syria; 4. …”
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Arabic and the media : linguistic analyses and applications

Table of Contents: “…Arabic oral media and corpus linguistics : a first methodological outline / Marc Van-Mol -- Patterns and predictions for code-switching with Arabic / Carol Myers-Scotton -- Identity and code-choice in the speech of educated women and men in Egypt : evidence from talk shows / Reem Bassiouney -- Håal id-Dunyåa : an Arabic news bulletin in colloquial (åAmmiyya) / Madiha Doss -- Performance, language and power : Nasrallah's rhetoric and mediated charisma in the context of the 2006 July War / Dina Matar -- Pidginisation in the Eastern Region of Saudi Arabia : media presentation / Munira Al-Azraqi -- Internet bulletin boards in Saudi Arabia : analogues of change and resistance / Nadav Samin -- Linguistic varieties in twenty first century Arabic novels : an applied study / Soha Abboud-Haggar -- Applications : approaching media in the classroom. …”
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The Essential Yusuf Idris : masterpieces of the Egyptian short story by Idrīs, Yūsuf

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Sonallah Ibrahim : rebel with a pen by Starkey, Paul, 1947-

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