Introduction

Maysa Abou-Youssef Hayward……….…1      View PDF

Exilic Memories of War: Lebanese Women Writers Looking Back

Carol Fadda-Conrey…………………….7     View PDF

Surpassing Borders and "Folded maps": Etel Adnan's Location in There

Mahwash Shoaib……………………….21     View PDF

Going the Extra Mile: Redefining Identity, Home, and Family in Hanan Al-Shaykh's Only in London

Syrine C. Hout…………………………29      View PDF

Scattered Like Seeds: Palestinian Prose Goes Global

Steven Salaita………………………….46      View PDF

The Hyphenated Identity and the Question of Belonging: A Study of Samia Serageldin's The Cairo House

Heba M. Sharobeem…………………..60      View PDF

An Interview with Samia Serageldin

Maysa Abou-Youssef Hayward……….85       View PDF

Narrating England and Egypt: The Hybrid Fiction of Ahdaf Soueif

Susan Muaddi Darraj…………………91      View PDF

The Diasporic Memoirist as Saidian Itinerant Intellectual: A Reading of Leila Ahmed's A Border Passage

Faiza W. Shereen…………………….108     View PDF

Negotiating Self in Diaspora: Historicizing Faiza Shereen's Play The Country Within

Amira Hassan Nowaira………………131     View PDF

An Interview with Miriam Cooke

Maysa Abou-Youssef Hayward……...140      View PDF

The Contemporary Arabic Novel as Social History: Urban Decadence, Politics and Women in Naguib Mahfouz's Fiction

Ayo Kehinde…………………………144      View PDF

An Interview with Gamal El Ghitani

Amany Hegazy………………………164      View PDF

El zar: A Tool of Oppression and Liberation

Maggie N. Nassif……………………170      View PDF

An Interview with Fatheya El Asaal

Mohamed Basiouny…………………177      View PDF

An Interview with Salwa Bakr

Hisham Taha………………………..183      View PDF

Arabic Literature, Sans Joy

John Maier………………………….185      View PDF

The Face of the Enemy: Arab-American Writing Post-9/11

Maha El Said……………………….200      View PDF

Book Review

Intersections: Gender, Nation, and Community in Arab Women's Novels edited by Lisa Suhair Majaj, Paula W. Sunderman, and Therese Saliba

Hala Kh. Nassar…………………….217     View PDF