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A new set of studies on representations of the desert in the art and literature of the world
Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics
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Ferial
Ghazoul
LITERARY COLLECTIONS Middle Eastern
Literary Criticism
no. 33
The Desert: Human Geography and Symbolic Economy

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  • ISBN 9789774165870
  • Weight: 695g
  • Dimensions: 165 x 241mm
  • Publication Date: 15 Jul 2013
  • Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press
  • Publication City/Country: EG
  • Product Form: Paperback
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This interdisciplinary issue of the literary journal Alif is devoted to the desert—as a geographical locus and symbolic image—and to various texts related to it, drawn from literature and the arts, history and anthropology, film and environmental studies.
Scholars from the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and North America contribute articles in Arabic, English, and French related to the visual representation of the desert in medieval iconography and in contemporary cinema, in American poetry and in pre-Islamic poetics, in human geography and in sociological thought, in French novels and in Arabic novels, in religious traditions and in ecological approaches, in travel literature and in critical discourse.

Includes contributions by Saeed Alwakeel, Saad El Bazei, Sharif Elmusa, Jehan Farouk, Naglaa Hassan, Abdullah Ibrahim, Salma Mobarak, Senayon Olaoluwa, Yasmine Ramadan, Nathalie Roman, Randa Sabry.
About
Ferial Ghazoul is an Iraqi scholar, critic, and translator. She is professor of English and comparative literature at the American University in Cairo and has written extensively on gender issues in modern and medieval literature.