Recent Issues

English and French Section: 

• Chip Rossetti: All Alive and Moving”: Marine Life and Disgust in Abū Ḥāmid al-Gharnāṭī’s Tuḥfat al-albāb wa-nukhbat al-aʿjāb.
• Jens Schmitt: Tasty Animals: Animal Edibility in Premodern Arabic Zoological Writings.
• Mariam Elashmawy: Taming the Animal within in Cairo: Muḥammad Farīd Wajdī and “Temperate Vegetarianism.”
• Mahmoud Refaat: Of Mice and Cats: Anthropomorphism and Narrative Empathy in Art Spiegelman’s Maus.
• Ewa A. Łukaszyk: Frames of Hunting: Grievable Animal Life in Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead.
• Noha Hanafy: Beyond the Human–Animal Transformation in Hasan Aourid’s Sīrat Ḥimār and Rawi Hage’s Cockroach.
• Rania M. Rafik Khalil: A Posthumanist Examination of Animal Dignity in Tanya Ronder.
• Hassan Abdel Mawgoud: Le Chat : La garde en demi-équipe, Translated by May Telmissany.
• Miriam Hathout: Celebrating Animals in Brushstrokes: An Artist’s Testimony in Color.

Arabic Section: 

• Sabry Hafez: Homes and Animals in Arabic Literature.
• Omaima Abou-Bakr: The Representation and Functionality of Birds in the Quran.
• Nicolas Payen: The Possibility of Animal Extinction and the Destiny of Humanity: Reflections from the Early Islamic Period.
• Abdelrahman Abuabed: Al-Jāḥiẓ’s Kitāb al-Ḥayawān: Between Signification and the Inference of Wisdom.
• Houman Nazemian: The Human-Animal Dispute: The Manifestation of Utopia in the Thought of the Brethren of Purity (Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ).
• Hosni Mlitat: Anthropomorphizing Animals in Fiction: When Dogs Express Human Thoughts.
• Chouaib Halifi: Animal Semiotics in the Modern Moroccan Novel: Creatures and Meanings.

English and French Section: 

• Yasmin Amin: Belly-Laugh Abbasid Style: What Food Is to the Body, Laughter Is to the Soul
• Nada Ayad: Tasting Revolutions: Food, Gender, and Class in Egyptian Women’s Narratives
• Anusha D’Souza: Nourriture, identité et enjeux de pouvoir dans le roman Boadour de Firmin Lacpatia
• Isabella Altoé: Art You Can Taste: Cooking and Eating in a Gallery
• David Bell and Theresa Moran: Conflict and Resolution at the Table: The Role of Food in the TV Series Succession
• Omer Taher: Extract from the Novel Kohl and Cardamom (Translated by Randa Aboubakr)
• Anny Gaul: Food Studies in the Arab World: An Interview

Arabic Section:

• Asaad Alsaleh: The Hungry Poet of “Lāmiyyat al-‘Arab” and the Quest for New Values
• Walid Ghabbour: The Anthropology of Food and Sex in Pre-Modern Arabic Literature
• Salma Serry: Al-ṭabkh al-manzilī (1914): The Beginnings of Domestic and Cookery Education in Egypt
• Emad Abdul-latif: Popular Culture and Identity Formation: Critical Discourse Analysis of Fūl songs in Egypt
• Mousa M. Khoury: The Representation of Foodways in Palestinian Literature: Writing Under a Colonial Condition
• Adham Masaoud Al Kak: A Semiotic Reading of Food in Some Modern Arabic Novels
• Sayyed Daifallah: Food and Narrative Identity in Days of the Rising Sun by Miral al-Tahawy 
• Shereen Abouelnaga: From the Author’s Kitchen (An Interview with Ezzat El Kamhawi)
• Mohja Kahf: Selected Poems from My Lover Feeds Me Grapefruit (Translated by Magda Hasabelnaby)

English and French Section

• Andrea Maria Negri: Lovers as Siblings in al-Manfalūṭī’s Adaptations
• Mariam Elashmawy: The Sons of the Pasha are Fallāḥīn”: The Taymūriyya Brothers in Interwar Egypt
• Mary Youssef: Together from Womb to Tomb: Sisters, Brothers, and the Nation in Mahfouz and Kanafani
• Yomna Saber: The Mimetic Desires of Warring Siblings in Fuʾād al-Takarlī’s Novels
• Muhammed F. Salem: Loving My Brother-in-Law: Sister Rivalry in the Work of Lehmann and Foenkinos
• Noha Hanafy: Contesting Narratives: Sibling Relations as Political Allegory in Lā tukhbir al-ḥiṣān
• Safaa Fathy: M pour un frère : Témoignage
• Anna Głowacka: Sisters at Crossroads: On Sister Relations in Restoration Literature in German (Translated by Karam AbuSehly)

Arabic Section

• Magda Hasabelnaby: Sisterhood of Resistance and Creativity: Latifa al-Zayyat and Radwa Ashour
• Shereen Abouelnaga: Sisterhood in the Afro-American Context: From White Uniformity to Black Intersectionality
• Saad Al-Bazei: Fraternal Hegemony in Four Novels from the Arabian Peninsula
• Abdelrahman Abuabed: Brother-Sister Psychic Duality in Folktales: Jungian Individuation via Voice and Intuition
• Dalia Said Moustafa: Brotherly/Sisterly and Friendship Ties among Palestinian Children in Mai Masri’s Films
• Hala K. Gomaa: Female Friendship Novels: Sisterhood in Third-Wave Feminism
• Manal Al-Natour: Brotherly Ties and Their Implications in Syrian Prison Literature
• Amina Mansour: Cairo Captions: A Photo-Testimony on Human Fraternity