Recent Issues

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

English and French Section

• Caroline Rooney: Shakespeare’s Hermetic Lampedusa: From Colonial Fantasies to the Afterlife in The Tempest
• Andrea Maria Negri: Representations of Death in al-Maqāmāt al-Hindiyya
• Shaimaa El-Ateek: Thanatogenos: Photographing Death and Writing Mourning in Barthes’s Camera Lucida and Mourning Diary
• Elliott Colla: Elegy and Mobilization: Poetry, Mourning, and the Student Uprising of January 1972
• Marwa Ramadan: On the Threshold of Death: Liminality and Transformation in Margaret Edson’s Wit
• Tania Al Saadi: La mort dans la littérature irakienne de l’exil : L’exemple d’Inaam Kachachi
• Shaimaa Gohar: Taming the Terror of Death in George Saunders’s Lincoln in the Bardo
• Hala Amin: Frankenstein’s Monster, Past and Present: Writing Against Death in Frankenstein in Baghdad

Arabic Section

• Saeed Elmasry: Cultural Approaches to Mortality: A Critical Overview of the Anthropology of Death
• Mohamed Birairi: Confronting Annihilation: Readings in Pre-Islamic Poetry
• Karam AbuSehly: Literature as Archive of Mortality: Walter Benjamin’s Theory of Trauerspiel
• May Telmissany: Death and the Annihilation of History in Egyptian Surrealism
• Hajjaj Abu Jabr: Death of God Theology: The Holocaust of Paul Celan and Mahmoud Darwish
• Shahla Ujayli: Abd al-Salām al-‘Ujaylī’s Stories of Illness between Culture and the Medical Institution
• Walid El Khachab: Mystic Annihilation in Sufi Art: Death as a Form of Life
• Dani Nassif: Traumatic Past and Fantasy: Testimonies of the Undead in Rabī‘ Jābir’s Bīrītūs
• Yasmine Motawy: Normal Grief: Death in Children’s Picture books