Book section · January 1, 2022
This chapter analyzes novels of Islamic spirituality written since 1960 through the lens of the barzakh, a Qur'ānic trope that signifies a third space where opposites meet yet remain separate. Several authors—the Libyan Ibrāhīm al-Kūnī, the French J.M.G. L ...
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Book section · January 1, 2020
Throughout the Cold War, writers in the Middle East and North Africa took the pulse of their times, attempting to make sense of local and global transformations. While the first ten years of the Cold War found countries struggling to free themselves from t ...
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Book section · January 1, 2016
On March 17, 2011, many Syrians rose up against the authoritarian Asad regime that had ruled them with an iron fist for forty years. Initial successes were quickly quashed, and the revolution seemed to devolve into a civil war pitting the government agains ...
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Book section · 1993
Reprinted in Peter F. Murphy (ed.), Fictions of Masculinity: Crossing Cultures Crossing Sexualities, New York University, 1994, 96-120. ...
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