Cultural Entanglement in the Pre-Independence Arab World : Arts, Thought and Literature (Paperback)

Introduction - Anthony Gorman and Sarah Irving 1. The Emergence of Mass Readership in Arab Societies-Ami Ayalon 2. Cultures of Diversity: George Abyad's 1912 Oedipus Rex- Raphael Cormack 3. 'Ya aziz ?aini ana bidi arawah baladi...' Voyages of an Egyptian tune - from Estrangement at Home to Longing on the Fronts of WWI- Alia Musallam 4. What did cosmopolitan mean? An Approach through Alexandrian Francophone literary milieus (1880-1940) - Elena Chiti 5. Narrative of an Arab Woman photographer during Mandate Era Lebanon -Yasmine Nachabe Taan 6. Porous Boundaries: The 'Local' and the 'Foreign' in Cairo's Vibrant Francophone Cultural Scene (1919-1939) - Hussam R. Ahmed 7. The Bee Kingdom: Lost Narratives of A.Z. Abushady - Joy Garnett 8. Political Caricatures in Colonial Egypt: Visual representations of the people and the nation- Sarah H. Awad 9. Cultural Conduits: The Greek Arabists of Interwar Egypt - Anthony Gorman 10. ­Stephan Hanna Stephan and Evliya Celebi's Book of Travels- Sarah Irving 11. When Malek Bennabi recollected his colonial education: Cultural authenticity, nostalgia and renaissance in Algeria - Idriss Jebari