| Alif 26: Wanderlust: Travel Literature of Egypt and the Middle East Contributor(s): Ghazoul, Ferial (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9774160118 ISBN-13: 9789774160110 Publisher: American University in Cairo Press OUR PRICE: $85.45 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2006 Annotation: It is a tribute to Middle East scholar and acclaimed travel writer John Rodenbeck. Essays in this issue take a variety of approaches, ranging from the historical to the analytical and philosophical. Contributors include Sahar Sobhi Abdel-Hakim, Fadwa Adbel Rahman, Michael Haag, JDF Jones, Ceza Kassem, Nabil Matar, Malise Ruthven, Sarah Searight, and Terry Walz. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Middle Eastern |
| Series: Alif: Journal of Contemporary Poetics |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.7" W x 9.4" (1.95 lbs) 528 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This issue of Alif is devoted to travel and travel-writing in the broadest cross-cultural sense and focuses on what Mahmoud Manzalauoui has termed indigenes, visitants, sojourners, and habitants or metics, particularly in Egypt and the Middle East. It is a tribute to Middle East scholar and acclaimed travel writer John Rodenbeck. Essays in this issue take a variety of approaches, ranging from the historical to the analytical and philosophical. Contributors include Sahar Sobhi Abdel-Hakim, Fadwa Adbel Rahman, Michael Haag, JDF Jones, Ceza Kassem, Nabil Matar, Malise Ruthven, Sarah Searight, and Terry Walz. |
Contributor Bio(s): Ghazoul, Ferial: - Ferial Ghazoul is professor of English and comparative literature at the American University in Cairo. |