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Sherko Bekas

Attraverso il Cinquecento

The Rise of the Arabic Book

From the Workshop of the Mesopotamian Scribe

Writing Queer Identities in Morocco

Committed to Disillusion

Born Translated

Russian-Arab Worlds

Hebrew Orientalism

Literary Translation in Practice

The Politics of Melodrama

Ancient Persia in Western History

Arabian Nights

Erotica, Love and Humor in Arabia

The Sword of Ambition

Children’s Picture Books and Contemporary Egyptian Society

Orhan Pamuk and the Good of World Literature

Melancholy Acts

Edward Said's Concept of Exile

Al Jazeera in the Gulf and in the World

Gender, Sex, and the City

The Shahnameh

Un Proche-Orient sans romantisme

Arabic Thought and Its Place in History