This volume deals with the Arab literary response to European colonialism as articulated in the works of four leading twentieth-century poets: A?mad Shawq?, Ma?

Considers the Arabic novel within the triangle of the nation-state, modernity and tradition.The novel is now a major genre in the Arabic literary field; this bo

Situating Nima's life firmly within the context of 20th century Iranian history this book contributes to an emerging trend in literary scholarship on Persian li

Comparatively studies, through both form and content, the development of Arabic and Persian modernist poetry during the mid-twentieth century.

In Arab-Jewish Literature: The Birth and Demise of the Arabic Short Story, Reuven Snir offers an account of the emergence of the art of the Arabic short story a