Understanding the complexities of Arab politics, history, and culture has never been more important for North American readers. Yet even as Arabic literature is
This book presents theoretical and methodical cultural concerns in teaching literatures from non-American cultures along with issues of cross-cultural communica
The teaching of texts in translation has become an increasingly common practice, but so too has the teaching of texts from languages and cultures with which the
Presents the life and works of Denys Johnson-Davies, who was described by the late Edward Said as "the leading Arabic-English translator of our time." With more
First published in Arabic in 2008, The Tobacco Keeper relates the investigation of the life of a celebrated Jewish Iraqi musician who was expelled to Israel in