ALIF 42
Alif 42 (2022): Literature Confronting Mortality

English and French Section
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Caroline Rooney: Shakespeare’s Hermetic Lampedusa: From Colonial Fantasies to the Afterlife in The Tempest
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Andrea Maria Negri: Representations of Death in al-Maqāmāt al-Hindiyya
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Shaimaa El-Ateek: Thanatogenos: Photographing Death and Writing Mourning in Barthes’s Camera Lucida and Mourning Diary
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Elliott Colla: Elegy and Mobilization: Poetry, Mourning, and the Student Uprising of January 1972
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Marwa Ramadan: On the Threshold of Death: Liminality and Transformation in Margaret Edson’s Wit
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Tania Al Saadi: La mort dans la littérature irakienne de l’exil : L’exemple d’Inaam Kachachi
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Shaimaa Gohar: Taming the Terror of Death in George Saunders’s Lincoln in the Bardo
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Hala Amin: Frankenstein’s Monster, Past and Present: Writing Against Death in Frankenstein in Baghdad
Arabic Section
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Saeed Elmasry: Cultural Approaches to Mortality: A Critical Overview of the Anthropology of Death
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Mohamed Birairi: Confronting Annihilation: Readings in Pre-Islamic Poetry
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Karam AbuSehly: Literature as Archive of Mortality: Walter Benjamin’s Theory of Trauerspiel
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May Telmissany: Death and the Annihilation of History in Egyptian Surrealism
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Hajjaj Abu Jabr: Death of God Theology: The Holocaust of Paul Celan and Mahmoud Darwish
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Shahla Ujayli: ‘Abd al-Salām al-‘Ujaylī’s Stories of Illness between Culture and the Medical Institution
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Walid El Khachab: Mystic Annihilation in Sufi Art: Death as a Form of Life
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Dani Nassif: Traumatic Past and Fantasy: Testimonies of the Undead in Rabī‘ Jābir’s Bīrītūs
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Yasmine Motawy: Normal Grief: Death in Children’s Picture books