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Alif 29 (2009): The University and Its Discontents: Egyptian and Global Perspectives

Alif 28 (2008): Artistic Adaptations: Approaches and Positions

Alif 27 (2007): Childhood: Creativity and Representation

Alif 26 (2006): Wanderlust: Travel Literature of Egypt and the Middle East

Alif 25 (2005): Edward Said and Critical Decolonization

Alif 29 (2009)
The University and Its Discontents: Egyptian and Global Perspectives

English Section

Editorial
Bruce Foltz	One-Dimensional Learning: the Dialectic of Sacred and Secular as the Enduring Possibility of the University
John Kress	University and Stasis: Four Rival Ideas of a University
Robert Frodeman and Jennifer Rowland	De-Disciplining the Humanities
Karyn Ball	Melancholy in the Humanities: Lamenting the "Ruins" of Time between Bill Readings and Augustine
Henry A. Giroux	The Politics of Higher Education and the Militarized Academy after 9/11
Stephen Germic	The Neoliberal University: Theory and Practice
Sara Nimis and Stephen Nimis	WANTED: Languages, Dead or Alive
Barbara Harlow	Public Spheres, Personal Papers, Pedagogical Practices: Ruth First’s Academic Postings to/from Dar es Salaam and Maputo
Peter Cook	Scholarship and Integrity: Matthew Arnold’s "The Scholar-Gipsy" and Anita Desai’s "Scholar and Gipsy"
English Abstracts and Articles
Notes on Contributors

Arabic Section

Editorial
Ali Mabrook	From Hard Force to Soft Force: Nahda Project from Army to University
Mona Tolba	The Metaphor of the University: The University as If …
Anwar Moghith	Education and Citizenship: A Study of Ahmed Lutfi Al-Sayyid’s Political Ideology
Kamal Mougheeth	University and Politics: Glorious Past, Rich Experiences, Miserable Reality
Mohamed Aboulghar and Madiha Doss	For a Better University: March 9 Group
Samy Soliman	Orientalism and the History of Arabic Literature: Carlo Nalino as a Case Study
Doaa Embabi	English Literature in the Egyptian University: A View from Within
Faten Morsy	The University in The Open Door and Atyaf
Magda Mansour Hasabelnaby	The Image of the University and its Implication in Selected Twentieth-Century American Literary Texts
Muhsin Mahdi	Years of Chicago: Forming a Soul (translated by Bayoumi Kandil)
Nasr Abu Zayd	Islamic Studies in the University: An Interview
Arabic Abstracts of Articles
Notes on Contributors

Alif 28 (2008)
Artistic Adaptations: Approaches and Positions

English Section

Editorial
Dena Al Adeeb	From Sacred Ritual to Installation Art: A Personal Testimony
Anne Clément	Des dunes du desert aux jardins d’Eden: L’interprétation des desires par Ibn ‘Arabi, à travers une appropriation du nasib, du ghazal et du muwashshah
Andrew N. Rubin	Orwell and Empire: Anti-Communism and the Globalization of Literature
Mahmoud El Lozy	Palestine Uncovered in My Name is Rachel Corrie
Ziad Elmarsafy	Adapting Sufism to Video Art: Bill Viola and the Sacred
Fadwa AbdelRahman	From Page to Celluloid: Michael Cunningham’s The Hours
Jaffar Mahajar	The Transformation of the Act of Narration: Strategies of Adaptation of Al-Qamar w’al-Aswar
Amra Raza	Artistic Adaptation: Ekphrasis in Pakistani Poetry in English
English Abstracts of Articles
Notes on Contributors

Arabic Section

Editorial
Julie Sanders	Adaptation and Appropriation (Translated by Bayoumi Kandil)
Salma Mobarak	The Eloquent Peasant’s Complaints: Resurrecting Literature through Film
Samy Soliman	Theoretical Reception and the Dialectic of Genres: Ibn Rushd and the Aristotelian Dramatic Theory
Ibtessam El Esnawi	Rostand and al-Manfaluti: Between Historical Invocation and Artistic Adaptation
Hany Darwish	Rayya and Sekina: Eighty-Five Years of Jaded Adaptation
Azza Heikal	Artistic Interpretation Versus Religious Exegesis in Mahfouz’s Children of the Alley
Magda Mansour Hasabelnaby	The Mouse Trap: Nigerian and Arab Variations on Hamlet
Alaa Abd El Hadi	Adaptation/Generic Transition: Critical Testimony
Sahar El Mougy	From Folktale to Feminist Tale: A Testimony
Arabic Abstracts of Articles
Notes on Contributors

Alif 27 (2007)
Childhood: Creativity and Representation

English Section
Editorial
Thomas Hartwell	Seeing Children: A Photographer's View from the Arab World
Wiam El-Tamimi	"The Simple Little Picture Book": Private Theater to Postmodern Experience
Stephanie S. Gearhart	"Faint and Imperfect Stamps": The Problem with Adaptations of Shakespeare for Children
Mia Carter	History's Child: Virginia Woolf, Heritage, and Historical Consciousness
Muhammad 'Afifi Matar	Wonders of Childhood: On the Margins of Formation (Translated and introduced by Ferial J. Ghazoul)
Sharif S. Elmusa	Vital Attitude of the Poet: Interview with Naomi Shihab Nye
Matthew Woolery	Are Children Morally Inferior to Adults?
Michal Oklot	Maturing into Childhood: An Interpretive Framework of a Modern Cosmogony and Poetics
Adib Fattal	"The Child is the Father of the Man": The Rainbow of my Painting
Tanya M. Monforte	Razing Child Soldiers
English Abstracts of Articles
Notes on Contributors

Arabic Section

Editorial
Maria Montessori	Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to Child Education (Translated and Introduced by Amanie Fawzi Habashi)
Abdelfattah Abusrour	Beautiful Resistance: Theater of the Children of the Refugee Camp
Nasseif Azmy	Puppet Theater: Between Child and Critic
Sayyid Hegab	Each Time I Step into the River, I Find It--and Myself--Changed: A Testimony on Childhood and Writing for Children
Nadia El Kholy	The Development of the Concept of Heroism in Egyptian Children's Literature
Mohieddin al-Labbad	The Childhood of Visual Memory (Interview)
Mounira Soliman	The Arab Child Between East and West: A Reading of Al Shamshun, 'Alam Simsim, and Bakkar
Gala El Hadidi	The Treatment of Children's Literature in Selected Musical Works
Saeed Alwakeel	Intertextuality in Children's Literature: Elmessiri and Al-Sharuni as Examples
Yasmine Motawy	Muhamad 'Afifi Matar's Agenda in his Writings for Children
Arabic Abstracts of Articles
Notes on Contributors

Alif 26 (2006)
Wanderlust: Travel Literature of Egypt and the Middle East

English/French Section

Editorial
John Rodenbeck	The Road Taken (An Interview)
Michael Haag	Only the City is Real: Lawrence Durrell's Journey to Alexandria
Sahar Sobhi Abdel-Hakim	William Golding and his Egypts
Mara Naaman	America Undone: Sonallah Ibrahim's Intra-Imperial Investigations
Terence Walz	Trans-Saharan Migration and the Colonial Gaze: The Nigerians in Egypt
Sarah Searight	Owen Jones: Travel and Vision of the Orient
Malise Ruthven	A Subversive Imperialist: Reappraising Freya Stark
Fadwa AbdelRahman	V.S. Naipaul: The White Traveler Under the Dark Mask
J.D.F. Jones	From the Diary of a Traveler: South Africa in 1923
Nabil Matar	Europe through Eighteenth-Century Moroccan Eyes
Hachem Foda	Portrait du poète en pèlerin impénitent
English Abstracts of Articles
Notes on Contributors

Arabic Section

Editorial
John Rodenbeck	Alexandria in Cavafy, Durrell, and Tsirkas (Translated by Lamis Al Nakkash)
Abderrahim Mouadden	The Journey as Literary Genre
Chouaib Halifi	Arab Journeys: Text and Identity Discourse
Céza Kassem-Draz	Invitation to a Journey: Margo Veillon's "Nubia"
Essam Bahiy	Ibn Fadhlan's Epistle: A Cultural Reading
Mohammed Birari	Traveling in Hamadhani's Maqamat: Connotations and Significances
Saeed Al Wakeel	The Journey of Exile in Modern Arabic Poetry: Isolated Place and Memory
Walid El Khachab	Traveling East: Spiritual Geography and the Sufi Journey
Walid Mounir	The Journey of Exile in Modern Arabic Poetry: Isolated Place and Memory
Fakhri Saleh	Naipaul's Travelogues to the Islamic World: Delineating a Biased View
Arabic Abstracts of Articles
Notes on Contributors

Alif 25 (2005)
Edward Said and Critical Decolonization

English Section
Editorial
Remembering Edward Said

Hoda Guindi: "Of the Place"
Michael Wood: Desperate Youth
Andrew N. Rubin: Edward
Ananya Jahanara Kabir: Becoming Minor: On Some Significant Encounters with Edward Said
Najla Said: Tribute to My Father
Edward W. Said	On the University
Stathis Gourgouris	The Late Style of Edward Said
Moustafa Bayoumi	Reconciliation without Duress: Said, Adorno, and the Autonomous Intellectual
Yumna Siddiqi	Edward Said, Humanism, and Secular Criticism
Rubén Chuaqui	Notes on Edward Said's View of Michel Foucault
Richard H. Armstrong	Last Words: Said, Freud, and Traveling Theory
David LeHardy Sweet	Edward Said and the Avant-Garde
Fadwa AbdelRahman	Said and Achebe: Writers at the Crossroads of Culture
Youssef Yacoubi	Edward Said, Eqbal Ahmad, and Salman Rushdie: Resisting the Ambivalence of Postcolonial Theory
Rokus de Groot	Perspectives of Polyphony in Edward Said's Writings
Daisuke Nishihara	Said, Orientalism, and Japan
Terry Eagleton	Edward Said, Cultural Politics, and Critical Theory (An Interview)
Yasmine Ramadan	A Bibliographical Guide to Edward Said (English)
English Abstracts of Articles
Notes on Contributors

Arabic Section

Editorial
Edward W. Said	On the University (Translated by Lamis Al Nakkash)
Mourid Barghouti	Edward Said: The Voice of Independent Thinking
Hassan Nafaa	Edward Said and Palestine
Do'aa Nabil Embabi	A Reading of Edward Said's Critical Concepts
Radwa Ashour	The Voice: Frantz Fanon, Eqbal Ahmad, and Edward Said
Faten Morsy	The Pleasures and Perils of Exile in Some Works by Edward Said
Anwar Moghith	Said, Marx, and Orientalism
Feissal Darraj	Antonio Gramsci and Edward Said: Two Different Problematics
Nehal Mohamed El-Naggar	Cultural Resistance and Power: Said and Bakhtin
Ibrahim Fathy	Objections to Said between Incoherence, Partisanship, and Analysis
Manar ElShorbagy	Official America versus the "Other America": An Elaboration on Said's Distinction
Ferial J. Ghazoul	Vico's Impact on Said
Edward W. Said	On Jean Genet's Late Works (Translated by Tamer Abdel Wahab)
Yasmine Ramadan	A Bibliographical Guide to Edward Said (Arabic)
Arabic Abstracts of Articles
Notes on Contributors