A comparative study of iconographic and fictional representations of department stores in France and Egypt, as sites of imperial and Mediterranean cultural memory, from 1859 to the present.

A comprehensive introduction to the life and thought of one of the Islamic intellectual tradition’s most original and profound authors.

A diverse collection of fiction and nonfiction literature from across the Arabic-speaking world.

A collection of sixty short stories by women writers from across the Arab world.

Traces the development of the modern Arabic novel from the 1960s to the present.

Makes available, for the first time in English, the work of a major modern Arab poet, providing a framework for understanding his experience not only as an Arab writer but as a postcolonial one.

An extensively illustrated account of traditional bedouin life in the Arab east that extends from desert wildlife and lore on the camel to marriage customs and the history of the enigmatic tribe of Slayb. ...