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In my first book, The Novel and the Rural Imaginary in Egypt 1880-1985, I had worked on the ways in which national paradigms and various..

Hala Halim, Alexandrian Cosmopolitanism: An Archive. New York: Fordham University Press, 2013.

[This review was originally published in the Fall 2015 issue of Arab Studies Journal. For more information on the issue, ..

Mara Naaman, Urban Space in Contemporary Egyptian Literature: Portraits of Cairo. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

[This review was originally published in the most recent issue of

Many analysts have been commenting on the broader significance of the astonishing and awe-inspiring events that have swept Egypt by storm over the past six days. From Tunisia to Yemen, the Arab world is in open revolt against the..

Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.

Much of the..